How to Use felicity in a Sentence

felicity

noun

• I've always admired his felicity with words.
• If there are stumbles along the way, there are also many felicities.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• The downside of such rampant felicity is its aptitude to push up on anything that moves.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• And at the annual CatCon in Pasadena, which celebrates the summit of feline felicity, cat videos play a big role.
  — Angela Hill, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• In a production that was studded with many felicities, this one, in its simplicity, stood out.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• The language of his British father and his American mother, of his beloved Shakespeare, and of the never-ceasing Empire was cause for great felicity and solemnity.
  — Tod Worner, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
• A club appearance can only confirm the felicity of their merger.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Mr. Chabon’s love of melodrama and boy’s-own adventure tales can make descriptions of his books seem naïve or flippant, but his verbal felicity goes a long way to suspending any reader’s doubts.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2016
• The felicity that defines Lizzo’s style is something everyone could use.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
• His lyrics display an unmatched verbal felicity and wit and evolve from character, situation or mood.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2021
• The power of the book comes not from Atwood’s inspired flights of fancy or felicities of style but from her deliberate subjugation of imagination to demonstrable fact.
  — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• When a graduate student can still depend on a departmental stipend, or institutional fellowship of some sort, the felicities of academia are easier to appreciate in the midst of the adversities.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
• Even moviegoers who typically care little for production design went nuts for the visual felicities of Wes Anderson’s masterwork.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• As their romance develops, the sensitivity and insight with which Johnson treats Andrea’s bewilderment and shame at betraying not just her identity but her people — lesbians as a community — are among this novel’s many felicities.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• There are other credible explanations for Trump's felicity towards Putin.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
• Other highlights were aided by City Center’s distinct stage-to-audience configuration, bringing Balanchine’s choreographic felicities into fine focus.
  — Robert Greksovic, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018

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