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

Force its power to be used only for felicity, and it becomes a potent emotional narcotic.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 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

I wish his telescopes and mathematical instruments, however, may secure his felicity.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis