DeLillo and Mallon have served to make it a most felicitous place to abide.
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He is calmly hilarious about how the historian Barbara W. Tuchman — never the most felicitous writer — urged him to lobby for her to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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His conversion to indulgence, played for a gag, isn't the most felicitous moment in Mr. Uhry's book: "It is disgusting in every way," Henri says of the club he's first taken to.
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Sterling Hyltin and Robert Fairchild's partnership in "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" is the most felicitous in New York dance; the extraordinary drama they reveal in the Aria II duet is so double-edged that it keeps deepening its plaintive spell.
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Many late Victorian writers, from Mrs Ewing to Henty and Fenn, were delighted to have their stories illustrated by this most felicitous of artists.
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Davis has erred in overabundance of detail. Knowing much is sometimes more troublesome than knowing little, and Mr. Davis's knowledge has in times past seemed too large for his story. In Falaise, however, this fault is to a most felicitous degree overcome . . . .”MacDonald, 196 The American National Biography noted that his fictional works “were not classics, . . .
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Mino Argento, New York, 1973 In 1974, John Gruen wrote: > These are geometric abstractions that could be called "White on White" with > their delicate, yet boldly differentiated forms and textures. One can see > Argento's mind and hand attempting something different within the geometric > genre. At times he succeeds, at others, he merely echoes the deja-vu > syndromes of shape within shape and closed-hued tonality. Still, one is in > the presence of a genuine artist, one who has a most felicitous affinity for > making the most out of self-imposed limitations of form and color.
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As Covi says, the problem was resolved "in a most felicitous manner". The work was placed in position in 1483 and "has been acclaimed since the day of its unveiling and almost without exception recognised as a masterpiece."Covi pp. 71–87. In 1468 Verrocchio made a bronze candlestick (1.57metres high), now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, for the Signoria of Florence.Covi pp. 56–60. Also in 1468 he contracted to make a golden ball (palla) to be placed on top of the lantern of Brunelleschi's cupola on the Duomo in Florence.
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While calling Stanley 'an awesome piece of scholarship executed with page-turning brio,' he expressed doubt that it would be the 'last word on Henry Morton Stanley.' In the Washington Post Jason Roberts wrote of '...this commanding, definitive biography' being 'an unalloyed triumph...'; and in the New York Times Book Review Paul Theroux described it as 'the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable [biography of Stanley]'. Tim Jeal had unique access to the massive Stanley collection in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels and saw many letters, diaries and other documents (including correspondence between Stanley and King Leopold II of Belgium) unseen by previous biographers. The book had its detractors.
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