felicity

Hindus believe Hinglaj Mata is one the places where the remains of Sati, the goddess of marital felicity and longevity, fell to earth after she ended her life.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

In other words, “Luck” takes things that are intangible — in this case, random felicity and affliction — and imagines them as palpable.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022

Serenity, personal growth and felicity may not be seductive topics for a contemporary R&B record.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022

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

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

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

As in the recent work of Patricia Lockwood, Lauren Oyler and Jia Tolentino, among others, there are many felicities of perception about lives spent online.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

Verbal felicities, haunting or explosive imagery, the architectonic dazzlements of rhyme and meter — all these are dwarfed by American poetry’s reverence for genuineness, for authenticity.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019

Just a few minutes into “Moonlight,” Jenkins has already created a masterwork, one in which the intensity of emotional experience arises from the nearly microscopic observational felicities that fill the film.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2016

Forman's movie has its felicities, but the Altman/Doctorow project must surely take its place among the greatest movies never made.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2015

We must endeavor to smile not just with the face upon the sweet felicities of others, but with the heart.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson