(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.
Pithily
Definition:
(adv.) In a pithy manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, Meyer's visceral reaction drove home the extent to which these posthuman technologies provoke visions of dystopian futures or what Miah pithily calls "the yuck factor".
(2) Of course, behind all great comedy generally lies a deep understanding of the issues that become so pithily and amusingly condensed on stage.
(3) As popular Indian tweeter Ramesh Srivats pithily put it: "Screw the nation, cherish the symbols."
(4) One of my more sclerotic media chums said last Sunday, rather pithily I thought, that if Alex Salmond blew his nose the 3,000 SNP supporters in the main auditorium for the party’s election campaign conference would cheer him to the rafters.
(5) We were going to pithily sum it up as Speech Debelle in hell but it's not that extreme.
(6) The Republican party’s sudden amnesia over its view of Mandela was most pithily captured by Salon, which dubbed the phenomenon the “right-washing” of his legacy.
(7) For McCarthy this was a kind of justice 12 months late — Ward had been sent off here on Boxing Day last year with the Wolves manager adding pithily that ‚ÄúPepe Reina had run 70 yards to make sure he was dismissed.‚Äù At Old Trafford earlier in the season, Wolves had been denied a point in the final minute, which saw McCarthy kick a nearby water bottle a sight harder than Babel kicked anything last night.
(8) In 11 pithily written essays, Gould, a former co-editor of the Gawker gossip website, charts her experiences as a young adult in New York, working in jobs she loathes, facing up to failed relationships and going to parties attended by people she dislikes.
(9) Let’s not ignore the climate bubble.” President Obama puts it most pithily : “We’re not going to be able to burn it all.” So the argument for a campaign to divest from the world’s most polluting companies is becoming an overwhelming one, on both moral and pragmatic grounds.
(10) He and his party of artists and comedians – pithily called the Best party – describe themselves as "anarcho-surrealists" and were voted in last year, apparently on a tide of public animosity towards the country's establishment.
(11) The synopsis for Toy Story , which transformed the animation zeitgeist in 1995, can be summed up as “anthropomorphic toys have an adventure”, while 2003’s Finding Nemo can be pithily rendered as “talking fish searches the oceans for his missing son”.
(12) Screenwriter Jack Thorne’s latest project certainly sounds like a straight whodunnit (“Midsomer Murders without the old people,” as Stephens pithily suggests).
(13) As Margaret Robertson, development director of Hide and Seek and a games journalist , pithily remarks: "How do you get women to play your game?