Sentence examples for a felicitous turn from inspiring English sources

Often when he landed on a felicitous turn of phrase, he repeated it, transposed or transmogrified, wringing out the idea.

— On the road from New Orleans to Athens, Ga., site of this week's Web.com tour event, Derek Ernst's career took a felicitous turn.

This is a compliment of the highest order: Dyer has such a perfect mastery of tone, such a light touch, such a felicitous turn of phrase — on just about every page, there's a sentence that makes me think, God, I wish I'd written that — that he makes me want to go and do it for myself.

It might be unfashionable to envision such a felicitous turn of events, but the ensuing reduction in export earnings for Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other American nemeses could turn music to Free World ears.

In "The Kids Are All Right," a film filled with felicitous turns of phrase, the most piquant, all the more so for its being self-evident, is the term used by the two kids to refer to their two mothers namely, "Moms"—in sentences where children of a heterosexual couple would say "Mom and Dad".

And so hundreds of felicitous turns of phrase live on only in secondhand reports, or in a scrap that enters the vernacular, like a line of Bob Dylan's or Dirty Harry's, immediately applicable to an array of experience.

"The Bungler" has its ephemeral charms -- in felicitous turns of phrase, and under Mr. Hughes's forever stylish direction, in lovely stage accouterments, especially Linda Fisher's costumes.

If there was nothing particularly surprising or illuminating in these readings, felicitous turns of phrase were abundant, and the Philharmonic's playing was consistently vibrant and alive.

Melodies everywhere: for all the built-in prominence of the right hand, Mr. Andsnes's left hand was often compulsively listenable as he uncovered felicitous turns and tunes.

Her free-ranging memoir is "crisply written, disarmingly frank and self-critical, rich in felicitous turns and well-told episodes," Victor Brombert wrote in these pages in 1997.

Still, "The Sorcerer" packs ample charms, including a felicitous score, a Verdian drinking song turned to teetotal ends, and at least one chorus that has reached the periphery of pop culture.