(a.) Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The President's Biomedical Research Panel is the first high-level government body to take note of what it has felicitously called the "precipitous decline" in research support of the National Institute of Mental Health.
(2) The unveiling frequently effects a felicitous atmosphere, because they perceive a relatively normal-looking ear.
(3) The death in 1986 of her sister, Felicite, with whom she shared her house, was a terrible blow, plunging her into depression.
(4) The authors speculate that the success of the crisis group can be attributed to the felicitous characteristics of the patients and to the group structure and function, which provided an excellent vehicle for crisis intervention management.
(5) With felicitous timing, London's Royal Court theatre is staging Richard Bean's hilarious if chaotic play, Heretic, about a university department eager for a grant from a multinational company and ready to suppress academic rigour to do so.
(6) In my opinion, a self psychological interpretation offers the more felicitous fit than the classic oedipal interpretation.
(7) The author illuminates some of these issues by relating milestones in the development of microscopy--optical as well as electron--and gives a snapshot picture of the recent work at Stanford University on the acoustic microscope as a felicitous instance of physics applied to the ever-present desire of mankind: to explore the unknown and to understand nature.
(8) The challenge of teaching clinical administration can felicitously be met by the ward director of the psychiatric inpatient ward.
(9) The present paper shows that the choice of this term was not felicitous, and suggests an alternative.
(10) It may be merely felicitous coincidence but the sarsen circle of Stonehenge shares a diameter of approximately 100ft with the dome of St Paul's and the Globe theatre.
(11) Although the dry wit and felicitous phraseology were still much in evidence, this work struck a more sombre note.
(12) The people who have been told to move to make room for the world’s biggest reflector may not see it this way, but the new 500-metre telescope is not just a tool for tuning in to the distant universe: it is a felicitous examplar of the grand vision.
(13) Updated at 7.21pm BST 6.46pm BST Bien joué, Angela France eagerly wanted to be the first to congratulate Merkel on her victory, et voilà... Grands felicitations Angelique Chrisafis in Paris writes: Francois Hollande, whose advisors had hinted he was likely to be the first world leader to congratulate Angela Merkel, has called her and invited her to Paris for talks as soon as the new government is formed.
(14) There is felicitous news if you are one of those people grimly aware that we are all Simon Cowell's children now: we're getting a sibling.
(15) The special requirements of the hearing prostheses are discussed with respect to the operation of each device, and the choice of the peak picker is found to be felicitous in this application.
(16) The elements that led to the change in the patients described include a defective self-representation and a motivation to achieve an ideal self-representation; a decision to test the self-representation through an action in real life; the felicitous presence of an important object who contributed to the consolidation of a new self-representation in the context of the test; and identification with this object.
(17) Jane and Bingley live just 30 miles away, Mrs Bennet remains at a conveniently inconvenient distance, and all is highly felicitous – until the night when a carriage careens out of the wind-lashed darkness and disgorges Elizabeth's wayward sister, Lydia, screaming that her husband, the nefarious Wickham, is dead.
Fortuitous
Definition:
(a.) Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
(a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fortuitous withdrawal of therapy and transplant nephrectomy may have been responsible for the patient's survival.
(2) Two major facilities of the Western Division of Dow Chemical USA are located fortuitously within an area covered by the population-based California Tumor Registry, which allowed linkage of records to identify incident cancers among 1,403 male workers.
(3) The unusual activity of IM effector preparations against HLA-mismatched LCLs arises from fortuitous cross-recognition of allogeneic cells by immunologically specific cytotoxic T cell clones coincidentally expanded in vivo alongside the EBV-specific response.
(4) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
(5) Because of this phenomenon it is difficult to distinguish whether a given protein's presence in bone is advantageous or merely fortuitous.
(6) The enhanced transposition frequency of Tn917-LTV1 and Tn917-LTV3 (about 100-fold in Bacillus subtilis) is believed to be due to the fortuitous placement of vector-derived promoters upstream from the Tn917 transposase gene.
(7) According to their different clinical presentations, patients were divided into 4 groups: 1: Documented cancer, 2: Hepatic cirrhosis, 3: Fortuitous ultrasonic detection, 4: Clinical hepatic tumor.
(8) The article describes a way to estimate the probability of the clustering being fortuitous.
(9) The age correlation was caused only by an attenuated response in the young subjects below 40 years of age and may be fortuitous.
(10) The somewhat fortuitous isolation of Nocardia asteroides and its significance are discussed.
(11) However, it seems that the reduced incidence of the AUV discovered by a few Italian authors is not fortuitous (genetic factors?
(12) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
(13) Endobronchial localizations of the granular cell tumours or Abrikossoff's tumour are very rare (6%) but their association with malignant tumours is exceptional and perhaps fortuitous.
(14) These T-ALLs may represent a fortuitous transformation of T cell subsets with alternative T3-Ti complexes.
(15) Gender identity change in a conservatively diagnosed 21-year-old transexual after faith healing was fortuitously observed, was objectively and independently measured, and is reported.
(16) Although the pathogenesis remains unclear, three possible explanations are suggested: disturbance of the pluripotent stem cell resulting in a combined myeloplasmatic disorder, coexistence of two diseases, or a fortuitous association.
(17) This tumour was discovered in a systematic fashion in 8 of the 10 cases and fortuitously in one.
(18) In addition, we found, fortuitously, that the ligated DNA circles could also integrate by homologous recombination, although usually at a much lower frequency than the Int-mediated integration into attB.
(19) Their coexistence in our patient, although the statistic probability is very low, seems to be a fortuitous coincidence more than the result of a common genetic and pathogenetic mechanism.
(20) It is not known whether the conversion of a portion of S5 to S5a is physiological or fortuitous.