The matter was pointed out to him, but he treated it with indifference.

He was a writer of plays then; but now he was Examiner of Plays.

His point of view was changed, that was all.

It was no fault of his if there had been neglect of duty on the part of previous examiners.

Mr.Arnold, the proprietor and manager of the Lyceum Theatre, expostulated with him on the subject.
In a play by John Banim, one of the authors of the "Tales of the O'Hara Family," Colman had forbidden certain lines to be chanted by monks and nuns in a scene of a foreign cathedral.