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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