Sentence examples for felicity from inspiring English sources

That Glimpse of Truth David Miller (ed) (out 23 October 2014) Some of the best short stories contain unexpected moments of felicity on which the plot pivots.

He combined this with disciplined enthusiasm, a taste for the arcane and arresting, a deep and deeply informed love of literature, felicity of quotation and allusion, and most of all an apparently genuine affection for his readers.Were it not for this last virtue, some of the pieces in this collection would not exist, or anyway would not be nearly as good.

Long may their felicity last!Saturday, we have said, was the Prince's twenty-fourth birthday; and of course it was kept as a fête.

WHATEVER else they profess, most world religions say happiness is not as simple as it seems; earthly pleasures can easily prove to be a chimera, and true felicity is said to lie in overcoming selfish impulses, or in devoted service to others and to God.

So levels of income are, if anything, inversely related to felicity.

It wasn't the felicity of adjectives that was rel­ished, more the aptness and succinctness and usually slightly elegant cruelty of the remarks.Your father, who died five years ago, is evoked very vividly in this new collec­tion and yet you seem to be circling his memory somewhat warily.

She is probably the frontrunner for the Bafta, ahead of Amy Adams (for Big Eyes) Felicity Jones (for The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore (for Still Alice) and Reese Witherspoon (for Wild).

A series of increasingly eye-catching screen roles followed, including Ada in the BBC's Bleak House, a guest shot on Doctor Who, the best friend in an ITV drama of another Austen, Northanger Abbey (playing second fiddle to Felicity Jones), and that stellar Seagull at the Royal Court, also in 2007.

Describing the campaign as cross-party, and funded by individual donations, co-founder Felicity Kane, a marketing company director, said she hoped to provide "a rallying-point for the moderate majority".

For my money, Cotillard is clearly ahead of the others in this list, good though they are all are: Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike, Felicity Jones and Reese Witherspoon.

So, for example, there was a woman named Felicity Smith who was this busybody.