"He was a felicitous writer, whether he was writing about antiques or historical figures, and he was an accomplished, compelling speaker," Heckscher said.
The painter "has done nothing more felicitous and interesting," James wrote of the Boit sisters' portrait in a review for Harper's Magazine that made Sargent's reputation in the United States.
The translations from German by Anthony David Skinner (a handful of the letters were written in English) are largely felicitous, although I have to admit that it was hard to imagine Scholem writing "I kid you not".
The game's fixed camera angle is usually sufficient to see where you have to go, and in the context of a game like this, it can be felicitous to be liberated from any meaningful engagement with Dante Alighieri's actual writing.
Writing by candlelight makes language softer, romantic, eyestrain a pittance to pay for the felicitous phrase until read after power is restored with fluorescent coffee and burnt expectations.
Ms. LuPone plays the highlight reel and the blooper reel essentially in straightforward chronological order, writing of roles and rehearsals and openings and closings in a style unadorned by felicitous phrasing or sustained reflection.
And Mr Bernstein is simply wrong about being the first journalist in Kashgar for years.To make up for that, Mr Bernstein writes in a felicitous style, enlivened at times with a telling metaphor or a sharpish insight.
"His greatest gift is to handicap the intellectual horses," Hodgson, the author of "America in Our Time," writes in a typically felicitous passage.
For Louise Jury in the Independent, "while no life of Hitchcock can be entirely dull, it is hard not to conclude that Ackroyd on Hitchcock was something of a quick-fire exercise in precis … For all the felicitous phrasing, a sneaking suspicion of a book written in haste remains".
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.
