Sentence examples for is less felicitous from inspiring English sources

This time around, the leap is not as far, and the result is less felicitous.

My own fish selection was less felicitous: salmone alla griglia.

Other experiments like Natalia Goncharova's "The Cyclist" of 1913 were less felicitous.

Her private life was less felicitous.

It is making its second, and final, stop here in Maine, where Ms. Dodd has spent summers since 1951, and has been expertly installed by Jessica May, the Portland Museum's curator of modern art, even though the galleries are less than felicitous.

Some speech acts can be performed that is, not misfire while still being less than felicitous.

He said that the tower had something of the architect Edwin Lutyens' "felicitous manipulation of period details into a non-period whole and will, I prophesy, one day be loved", although he was less sure that this fate awaited the rest of the buildings.

This would account for their massive popularity (and everyone who is not a critic will be cheered up by this line, which occurs early on in the first letter: "There is nothing less apt to touch a work of art than critical words: all we end up with there is more or less felicitous misunderstandings").

Less felicitous is Chung's recurrent use of old-country folk tales, which rattle on like a tour guide stubbornly resolved to explain every last monkey and elephant on the bas-relief.

With a few florid exceptions — "Moonlight" being one of the less felicitous ones — "In Your Dreams" stays wide awake and earnestly direct.

This one is "Singin' in the Rain," a less felicitous translation of a dance-savvy movie into a tap-happy Broadway musical.