Word: shavianly
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...scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
...enormous in the night sky over Broadway. Beneath it 10,000 rubberneckers milled on the macadam and roared at the famous faces in the glare. One by one, smiles popping like flashbulbs, they disappeared in the direction of the screen. What did it hold for them? Surely no Shavian conversation piece could conceivably have cost all that money. Surely no noble Shakespearean poem could possibly be recited by Elizabeth Taylor. No, Cleopatra was bound to be one of those colossal Things that periodically come charging out of the acetate jungle and gobble up millions of dollars. It was bound...
...hard time in Congress. Departing from his text, Kennedy ruefully noted that Presidents always get blamed for recessions-even when they try to prevent them. Said he: "When things go bad, the chicken comes to roost on the President's house"-an aphorism that, if not up to Shavian standards, is at least a demonstrable truth...
Heavy on talk. Photo Finish needed to approximate the Shavian paradox or the Wildean epigram. But Ustinov's dialogue tends to be smart rather than sharp, cracks wise when it should be wise. Photo Finish is not about to take win or place in the dramatic sweepstakes, but it is a safe, friendly show...
Following a number of Shavian stipulations, the Shaw-Read alphabet has 48 symbols, including 24 separate vowel sounds so that no matter what their context each one can be pronounced the same way. Its letters come in several matching-size categories such as "talls" and "deeps" (tails turned upside down). For example...