Sentence examples for felicitous words from inspiring English sources

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But nearly everyone, at some point, takes a sweaty roll in the blood-red sheets that dominate Nick Ormerod's matching red set: a monk, assorted noblemen and servants, a "lusty widow" (Ford's felicitous words) and a homicidal male stripper, who is not exactly in the original script, which has been edited and revised for this version.

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As good actors age — perhaps a more felicitous word would be mature — they learn how to do more with less.

Now, it is true that "beanie" has an air of silliness about it and may not be the most felicitous word for the head covering worn by many Jews to show devotion to God. "Skullcap" would have been better.

Both schools exemplify in different ways a conception of understanding the world that is inseparable from the interest in coming into "attunement" with it, to use a felicitous word from Charles Taylor (1982).

Felicitous tidings.

Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" (which was already available), and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness".

His words were hardly felicitous; some might call them patronizing.

The Daily Telegraph commented that the piece illustrated the composer's "great capacity for dramatic writing of the lighter class", and other reviews emphasised the felicitous combination of Gilbert's words and Sullivan's music.

How odd that a word of such felicitous intent seems to reveal itself only in the stern imperative".

These celebrated artists would kill for a felicitous phrase, a perfectly evocative word -- or a round of sex.

(Well, perhaps felicitous is not quite the word.) Listen to Weston's recollection of just how he got the family into such a financial pickle: "See, I always figured on the future.

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