Sentences with word «felicitous»

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Jones is giving us here a version of Ronald Reagan's «trickle - down economics,» ennobled a little by John Kennedy's more felicitous expression.
Robert Louis Stevenson called this «the most felicitous meeting of land and sea in creation» but even a course this beautiful isn't meant to be played for six hours.
As if a date at Shedd Aquarium on Valentine's Day (or weekend, this year) isn't romantic enough, you can find animals throughout the building that, in name or behavior, are as felicitous as a lace - trimmed heart - shaped card.
How felicitous was that decision, and how greatly it has contributed to the growth of modern Ghana.
- Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex and The Thin Place «To borrow one of his many felicitous phrases, Eric Lundgren has found a language of maximum power, compression, and elegance, not to mention desiccated wit, in his elegy to the dying Midwest.
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The balance of nutrients provided in the foods in the groups that Dr. Price visited was also in felicitous balance with those peoples» physical, emotional, and social ecologies.
But the conservative theme that works fine on the bigger Genesis is less felicitous on an affordable family car.
«Take It or Leave It: Institutions, Image, Ideology» does not have the most felicitous exhibition title.
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Compared to its more felicitous French counterpart - in the works of Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Stael or Georges Mathieu - Pollock's Abstract Expressionism was even at its most refined, incomplete, violent, full of astringencies, with a tone harsh and primitive.
Mr. Myers's theory of the whole range of phenomena is, that our normal consciousness is in continuous connection with a greater consciousness of which we do not know the extent, and to which he gives, in its relation to the particular person, the not very felicitous name — though no better one has been proposed — of his or her «subliminal» self.
It was a particularly felicitous way of acknowledging that, until biology provides a better crystal ball, pregnancy remains the best — and perhaps only — way to find out if an egg is good.
The film contains many felicitous touches and only one meretricious piece of melodrama: a sequence that misleads the audience into expecting a suicide.
Holly Goldberg Sloan credits her career change, and her subsequent success as an author of children's books, to something a little different: a lucky shrimp.Alas, said shellfish wasn't so felicitous for Sloan's husband.
Developments in teaching materials in recent years have been felicitous from a mental health standpoint.
«Separated brethren» was coined by somebody, and it's too felicitous a phrase to be the product of a committee.
The Fathers at Nicea therefore reluctantly resorted to the use of homoousios which was not altogether felicitous but at least it was an effective discouragement to Arianism.
We may reach a deeper understanding of the Church's view of inspiration by reflecting on the remarkable and felicitous fact that in its determination of those books it holds to be inspired, it did not throw out, but instead enthusiastically embraced, the texts we have traditionally called the Old Testament.
Today I bring you «A Historian's Craft,» Algis Valiunas's felicitous essay on the great nineteenth - century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.
This latter grouping has of late been called the «new class» in America — a not wholly felicitous term that is likely to stick for a while.
This makes Newman's development of doctrine a philosophical concept to be parsed — even if a model of felicitous wisdom.
Most Random: [Regarding Song of Solomon 5:4] «In the present passage KJ rendered «and my bowels were moved for him,» which would not now be considered felicitous, although the Rev. Dr. Sibs in 1648 for his sermons on Chapters 4 - 6 took his title, «Bowels Opened,» from the passages.»
Doctor - to - be Bannister, sprinter and devout Christian Morrow, and scholar - quarterback Baker are felicitous representatives of the gray - flannel - suit 1950s and pre-Dealey Plaza»60s.
The final story for the issue was a result of unusually felicitous timing.
This brand Provides its national and international buyers with chic, modish, and felicitous array of outfits designed with extreme elegance and total up - to - date style.
Felicitous Coffee on 51st is the perfect choice.
This patient, righteous documentary by Ken Burns, David McMahon, and Sarah Burns recounts the story of justice undone (a serial rapist confessed) with extensive interviews, a thorough use of archival footage, and a less - than felicitous use of ominous - rumble music that unnecessarily insists, Isn't this an outrage?
Universal's new DVD for Dracula (1979) includes an excellent making - of featurette, and adds interview material with John Williams, and felicitous comments from director John Badham and star Frank Langella.
I was unable to do the work I had left felicitous personal and professional conditions to undertake.
White is another master of felicitous prose, particularly when describing the Jamesean intricacies of human relations — and, yes, he can write sex better than most, and gay sex better than anyone!
Driskell's show is installed in the galleries next to the those devoted to African art, which sparks a serendipitous and felicitous dialogue between Driskell's prints and one of his most potent sources.
These are anything but felicitous actions on your part.
Was this the most felicitous summary of reasons for MacLeod's uncertainty?
«How felicitous was that decision and how greatly it has contributed to the growth of modern Ghana, it will be wholly appropriate and not at all far - fetched to describe Joseph Boakye Danquah as the founder of this University....
I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.
«Union leaders in those days rarely wrote essays, still less felicitous, thoughtful analysis of public policies.»
Here are three things we learned Sunday at «the most felicitous meeting of land and sea in creation.»
Indeed, Bayard's own book is so felicitous it gives the lie to his theory: I inhaled it and have been talking about it to other people ever since I closed the cover.
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He'll chat up Clint Eastwood in the booth, giggle with Nick Faldo, and drop that Robert Louis Stevenson quote on this being «the most felicitous meeting of land and sea in creation.»
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