| But a lot of criminals also live in poverty, and I don't hear anyone screaming Shavian imprecations about that. |
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| In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property. |
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| The Devil, of course, defends those hedonistic amenities, whereas Juan, a true Shavian, wants none of them and heads for a thinker's Heaven. |
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| Instead, I want to use it to revisit the Shavian thesis that the professional press has a higher claim than bloggers to the First Amendment and its subsidiary protections. |
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| It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel, to grasp the Shavian reference. |
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| It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel Swan, to grasp the Shavian reference. |
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| Man and Superman is a tough play to mount, for its length, its changes of scenery, its elaborate Shavian philosophizings and unremitting cascades of iconoclastic wit. |
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| Beneath its satire on Anglo-Saxon and Irish attitudes and its assault on entrepreneurial capitalism lies a deep vein of grief that is quintessentially Shavian. |
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| Author tried to bring out Shavian doctrine, but there was Let-them-eat cake tone about it all. |
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| Even I, as an ardent Shavian, would concede there are moments when you wish the old boy would get a move on. |
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| Mr. Bartlett articulates the terms of his debate quite baldly here, in almost Shavian terms, which diffuses the tension of the more oblique preceding scenes. |
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| A Shavian twist gives one of the most coruscating and convincing speeches – against conventional moralising – to the scoundrel Dubedat, who knocks out his opponents cold. |
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| Landis's Trading Places is Dickensian in spirit and Shavian in form. |
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| The absurdities of the plot might have come across with more Shavian wit had he not composed such an overwrought score, however admirably swift-paced. |
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| But I would like, in conclusion, in a lighter vein, give them not the biblical but the Shavian advice: do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you, because their tests may be different. |
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| Indeed, those who are new to the play, or in general to pyrotechnical Shavian wit, may very well be perplexed by Shaw's evident affection for the crafty monster he has created. |
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| The Shavian wit returns to the Asolo stage once more in a production directed by Tony winner Tony Walton. |
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| As the Congress prepares for its weekend chintan shivir, it needs to recollect the Shavian aphorism and reflect on it. |
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