Crossword-Solution: SHAVIAN
We have 11 clues for the answer “SHAVIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjective for "Pygmalion" or "Major Barbara" | 1 answer |
| G.B.S. admirer | 1 answer |
| G.B.S. devotee | 1 answer |
| Having an ironic comedic tone | 1 answer |
| Of G.B.S. | 1 answer |
| Of the author of "Candida" | 1 answer |
| Of the author of "Pygmalion." | 1 answer |
| Satirical, in a way. | 1 answer |
| Witty as a famous author. | 1 answer |
| Candida | 4 answers |
| CANDIDA AUTHOR | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SHAVIAN (5)
And it's a comfy homey old town, too!” She had such an outburst after each of Carol's campaigns--for better Thanatopsis programs, for Shavian plays, for more human schools--but she never betrayed herself, and always she was penitent.
Now why is it that when I also deal in the tragi-comic irony of the conflict between real life and the romantic imagination, no critic ever affiliates me to my countryman and immediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of whom I knew nothing until years after the Shavian Anschauung was already unequivocally declared in books full of what came, ten years later, to be perfunctorily labelled Ibsenism.
And now I'm told that I'm a centre of Immoralism! of Modern Minxism! a trifler with the most sacred subjects! a Nietzschean!! perhaps a Shavian!!! FANNY.
Why should everybody have to learn English, French, and German? [1]Herr Diels quaintly finds that Esperanto has only one gender—the feminine! Surely an ultra-Shavian obsession of femininity.
But the average representative of them undoubtedly treats the Shavian meaning as tricky and complex, when it is really direct and offensive.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).