shavian in English
adjective
1
of, relating to, or in the manner of G. B. Shaw, his writings, or ideas.
The hero of a nineteenth-century social novel, or of a Shavian play of ideas, might well be its author's mouthpiece, but the hero would also achieve victory within the work itself.
noun
1
an admirer of Shaw or his work.
Stoppard is a residualist romantic rather than a latter-day Shavian ; his play is best in tracing the collapse of a dysfunctional marriage and the incremental humiliation of its hero.
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1. He converses with Don Juan and a couple of other blas mortals, uttering Shavian iconoclasms with an air of Courteous boredom.