Sentences with word «infelicity»

His monumental works magnificently rise above infelicities in Tate Modern's installation and lighting.

The trick of editing is to rescue writers from their errors and infelicities without robbing them of their individuality or substituting one's own voice for theirs.

Such performative utterances may still suffer from infelicities, but obviously they have implications for behavior in the world.

This latter infelicity is no doubt a consequence of the work being based on lecture course notes - a point that Fr Selman, to his credit, underlines at the very beginning of the book.

In my office's recently concluded period of reading vast numbers of published children's books, again and again one or other of our small group would exclaim that a novel was brilliant but had easily correctible flaws in the structure, obvious errors of fact, or recurrent infelicities — all the kind of thing that a good editor would have addressed.

Similar infelicities in other stories suggest down - and - dirty rewriting.

On the off - chance that you have thoughtful friends like mine, I should warn you that there are certain... infelicities in the film, most of which might make you laugh despite your best, or even modestly fair, judgment (don't hate yourself), but one of which is legal in nature and might be no laughing matter.

What I say is neither true nor false insofar as it is a performative, although what I say is liable to infelicities.

Any infelicities remaining probably should be attributed to my faulty memory, poor listening comprehension, or weakness as a writer and not Dr. Keller.»

Thus, he will acquire the use of self - involving and performative language with less risk of infelicities.

What follows is reprinted from a post I made on Eli's blog, with some infelicities edited:

Working with more than a dozen Google calendars can be a bit tricky, so there are bound to be bugs and infelicities.