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
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
He argued that dirty streets were a welcome sign of prosperity — "a necessary evil, inseparable from the felicity of London."
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2021
I wish his telescopes and mathematical instruments, however, may secure his felicity.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Amid these felicities run the contradictions and tensions that have animated film since its inception.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
If there are stumbles along the way, there are also many felicities.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
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
Vocabulary lists containing felicity
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Grade 11, List 3
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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