felicity

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

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

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

Preferring verbal felicity to practical wisdom, a character in a Benjamin Disraeli novel quipped, “A majority is always the best repartee.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2018

The ceremony itself was one which began in refinement, in a spirit of proper felicity.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Yet “Traveling Sprinkler,” for all its felicities, is B-grade Baker.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2013

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