felicitous

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Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023

A win for this film would be nothing less than felicitous in a post-#MeToo Hollywood.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023

And his name is not the most felicitous in British history: The first King Charles, grandson of Mary Queen of Scots, was also beheaded.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Eleven time zones away at Pebble Beach, that felicitous meeting of land and sea, Monahan professes not to be overly concerned with what’s going on in Saudi Arabia.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2022

With an American pencil, she wrote a word, a felicitous word such as “longevity” or “double joy,” which is symmetrical.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston