felicitous

Example Sentences

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What he called “the felicitous expression of ideas” mattered more to him than academic point-scoring.

From Los Angeles Times

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

County leaders should not wait for the “felicitous scenario” in which market forces lead to more housing at lower prices before they address the potential strain on infrastructure, schools and tree canopy.

From Washington Post

County leaders should develop plans to address these problems in the felicitous scenario that market forces respond in earnest to the new home-building opportunities.

From Washington Post

Through good times and bad, Californians have considered their beautiful, bounteous, demanding and sometimes maddening home a place apart, an “island on the land” in the felicitous phrase of the state’s great chronicler, Carey McWilliams.

From Los Angeles Times