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
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
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
Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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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