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

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

“That may be the chief reason many of us love cats. They possess as their birthright a felicity humans regularly fail to attain.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2020

He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy