Despite the many stains on his reputation locking up opponents, rampant cronyism, not to mention his occasional, infelicitous use of prison slang Viktor Yanukovych retained, until recently, the vestige of respectability that the presidency of a nation of 46m confers.
More recently, in Haaretz, Mr Morris complained with some justice that Mr Karsh had sought to rubbish the exhaustive arguments of a long book by singling out only a couple of pages.It is true that some infelicitous pieces of selective quotation do not confute a whole thesis.
Nicely, Mr Sharpton withdrew a planned award to Island Def Jam last week, seeing that the award would look a little infelicitous after his witch-hunt of Mr Imus.
Mr Yanukovich's two criminal convictions, rumours of other malfeasance and his occasional, infelicitous use of prison slang do not burnish his image.
Alexander Pope undertook to edit Shakespeare in 1725, expurgating his language and "correcting" supposedly infelicitous phrases.
For most speech acts, the utterance through which the act is performed e.g., "I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth"—is neither true nor false, though the performance may be infelicitous in various ways, as when a person who is not authorized to name the ship cracks a champagne bottle against the bow and utters "I name this ship the Generalissimo Stalin".
That's around twenty thousand well-chosen words, written in a straightforward, deceptively simple style, with scarcely an infelicitous sentence or a detour into academic jargon from beginning to end.
Two months earlier, the Democrats had been successful in beating back the so-called "nuclear option" — Senator Trent Lott's infelicitous name for the Republican attempt to change long-standing Senate rules on the filibuster.
And in fairness to Rui, the video suggests that his self-appointed representation of Asia looks less like an act of rhetorical conquest than a split-second, if infelicitous, phrase to help him and the President out of an awkward moment.
Jarvis expresses her desire for marriage to be thought of as a "mutual personal-growth contract"; and behind this infelicitous expression lies the idea that marriage amounts to a defense against the existential trials of individualism, and happiness consists in carving out a space for personal development within its potentially obliterating structure.
Inbred for the purposes of experimentation, they exhibit a number of infelicitous traits, including a susceptibility to obesity, a taste for morphine, and a tendency to nibble off their cage mates' hair.
