Sentence examples for the felicitous from inspiring English sources

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the felicitous

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Fitting; happening at the right time.

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I appreciate the felicitous recommendations based on my purchasing history.

(The felicitous use of red in both Mr. Meisel's and Mr. Sultan's series might be analyzed).

The opera ends with Eliogabalo's offstage murder and the felicitous reunion of the couples he had threatened to break up.

"Thrilled, obviously," was the response of Prince Charles, the groom's father, next king and unerring master of the felicitous phrase.

The felicitous collaboration was under the artistic direction of Mr. Wilson, Ms. Douglas and Thomeki Dube of Black Umfolosi.

The admirable terseness and simplicity of this sentence, and the felicitous choice of its adjective, should not go unacclaimed.

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There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive, profiting from his access to an immense new trove of Stanley material.

In remembering the egregious imitations, we tend to forget the more felicitous ones, from the good times unleashed by "Easy Rider" to the April-in-Paris brand of movie-star romance.

In all three cases, the causes behind the outcome, felicitous or not, boil down to the central problems confronting art market players.

It seemed, in fact, as happens with the most felicitous unions, that the virtues of the parents were magnified in their offspring, since, at least in the beginning, they were more powerful and faster racers than their Thessalian mothers, and a good deal wiser and more cunning than black Cam and their other human fathers.

He put on one glove, pulled his pants up" — a reference to the tug that Jackson often made while performing, in order to show off his footwork, but perhaps not the most felicitous clause of the day — "and broke down the color curtain".

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