| His stories seem to tell themselves, unreeling in verbal felicities that kiss the ear. |
| As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality. |
| Of the libretto's many felicities of reversal and surprise, the delay of Sweeney's rough justice on the judge is a particularly piquant construction. |
| What are all the felicities I talk of, and have prized so much? |
| Innocent jokes depend upon verbal felicities, puns, play upon words, combining incongruous words, and so on. |
| His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible. |
