felicity

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Blackhawk’s account of Native Americans over the past five centuries is among five nominees for the Mark Lynton History Prize, a $10,000 award given for work which “combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Neglecting to explore this gives the viewer little reason to witness that struggle beyond the lesson of it; there must be, should be, the counterbalancing representation of felicity, and in large doses.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020

As Anne Enright noted years ago, “Hadley, for all the felicity of her prose style, is an immensely subversive writer.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019

It falls to some highly skilled performers to keep us up to speed, and no one accomplishes this with more felicity than Emily Shackleford.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2018

Mr. Philips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity unknown before.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen