unacceptable person

Persona non grata // "An unacceptable person"

“I might turn out to be a bad artist, or no artist at all, but having declared myself for art — the art of Tolstoy, James, Flaubert, and Mann, whose appeal was as much in their heroic literary integrity as in their work — I imagined I had sealed myself off from being a morally unacceptable person, in others’ eyes as well as my own.

“I might turn out to be a bad artist, or no artist at all, but having declared myself for art – the art of Tolstoy, James, Flaubert, and Mann, whose appeal was as much in their heroic literary integrity as in their work – I imagined I had sealed myself off from being a morally unacceptable person, in others’ eyes as well as my own.

The note, reprinted in the South China Morning Post, said that Lee had learned about the DUI case and had realized that Gui “has a complicated history … and is a morally unacceptable person.”

The note, reprinted in the South China Morning Post, said Lee had learned about the DUI case and had realized that Gui “has a complicated history … and is a morally unacceptable person.”