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SHERIDAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)
Synonyms:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Sheridan
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Context examples:
“I think, sir, that the Commons would respond now if the matter were fairly put before them by Charlie Fox or myself,” said Sheridan.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They condescended occasionally to poetry or oratory; and Byron, Charles James Fox, Sheridan, and Castlereagh, preserved some reputation amongst them, in spite of their publicity.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sheridan and Francis.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I thought of the energy with which he had just been cursing the House of Commons, I could scarce keep from smiling, and I saw Sheridan put his hand up to his lips.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was all in the same extravagant vein, garnished with many senseless oaths; but I observed this difference, that, whereas my uncle and Sheridan had something of humour in their exaggeration, Francis tended always to ill-nature, and the Prince to self-glorification.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Who, as he saw Sheridan and Fox eagerly arguing as to whether Caleb Baldwin, the Westminster costermonger, could hold his own with Isaac Bittoon, the Jew, would have guessed that the one was the deepest political philosopher in Europe, and that the other would be remembered as the author of the wittiest comedy and of the finest speech of his generation?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
