Sentence examples for it is felicitous from inspiring English sources
Speakers who observe the contrast in 47 find that it is felicitous to conjoin the comparative with a follow-up sentence that negates the so-called positive presupposition.
By contrast, if hai does not appear (Liu 2011: 34), no positive presupposition is induced and it is felicitous to have the same follow-up sentence.
But even if one holds that this is a morally significant distinction, it is not clear that it is felicitous to characterize the destruction of spare embryos as an unintended but foreseeable side-effect of creating embryos for fertility treatment.
The idea is that goals or purposes do not affect the truth conditions of "S knows what x is," but rather affects under what conditions it is "felicitous" to assert such a sentence, vis-à-vis Gricean norms of conversation.
It rains".. Given that an update is felicitous only to a consistent theory, and that "may φ" (with epistemic "may") simply means "it is consistent" (written ◊φ), the first is the sequence of updates with φ and ◊¬φ.
The match of filmmaker and material is felicitous, and its prospects are not diminished by a stellar cast.
In which case all this other jazz is felicitous accident.
Ms. Centurión, though without his technical brilliance, is a beautiful dancer; their partnership is felicitous.
The language of "Ill Fares the Land" is felicitous and polished, as befits such an intelligent and erudite author.
There is felicitous news if you are one of those people grimly aware that we are all Simon Cowell's children now: we're getting a sibling.
