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
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
“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
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
Mr. Philips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity unknown before.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Through whatever felicities of matching actor to well-written role, the cast is shown off to particularly good advantage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Despite those felicities, the play, with 18 scenes totaling an hour and 40 minutes, is too long for its own good, a problem not ameliorated by stodgy pacing and shaggy transitions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 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
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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