felicity

Rogoyska’s “Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth” won the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize for combining “intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 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

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

It falls to some highly skilled performers to keep us up to speed, and no one accomplishes this with more felicity than Emily Shackleford.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2018

In their zeal to purify usage and safeguard the language, they have made it difficult to think clearly about felicity in expression and have muddied the task of explaining the art of writing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

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