Word Finder - felicity

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Happiness.

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An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.

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(semiology) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.

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Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.

I was overcome with felicity when my first nephew was born.

At the zoo, you can see children with felicity on their faces.

After she won the competition, Hannah accepted her award with felicity.

The parents beamed with felicity as their child graduated college.

But there is immense wit, a wonderful command of such metre and language as the taste of the time allowed to the poet, occasionally a singular if somewhat artificial grace, and a curious felicity of diction and manner.

Complete felicity overcame me when I realized I was meeting my favorite celebrity soon.

After the team won the winning touchdown, the crowd roared with felicity and the band played the fight song.

Notwithstanding this domestic felicity, an impression is left on the reader of Corneille's biographies that he was by no means a happy man.

He himself attached great importance to his studies in this kind; his learned friends expected him to give their results to the world; which accordingly, though having little natural gift or felicity in verbal expression, he laboured strenuously to do.

Weston worked as both an actor and writer on the award winning television show Felicity.

You honor me too much in ascribing to me a degree of intimacy with Miss Fanshawe I have not the felicity to enjoy.

This we may consider as one of the striking parallels which meet us in other religions to that "hope of the advent of an ideal king which was one of the features of that larger hope of the salvation of Israel from all evils, the realization of perfect reconciliation with Jehovah and the felicity of the righteous in Him," to which reference was made in an early portion of this article and which constitutes the essential meaning of Messiahship. The form in which the Indian conception presents itself in the above quoted lines is more closely analogous amid many differences to the later and apocalyptic type of the Messianic idea as it appears in Judaism.

The intimacy with the Bible which is manifest in the pages of the Christian Year; and the unobtrusive felicity with which Biblical sentiments and language are introduced have done much to endear these poems to all Bible readers.

He surpasses the school of Antiphon in perspicuity, the school of Lysias in verve, the school of Isocrates in variety, in felicity, in symmetry, in pathos, in power.

He ranks among the half-dozen greatest letterwriters in the English language, and he was perhaps the only great letter-writer with whom the felicity was due to the power of what he has seen rather than what he has read.

In addition, the trend of releasing series on DVD means you don't have to say good-bye to your favorite WB and UPN favorites of the past, like Felicity, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Even Felicity Huffman's character Lynette on the hit series Desperate Housewives had an addiction to her children's prescription attention deficit disorder medication.

She's a prolific writer of television scripts and movie screenplays, a voiceover artist, and an actress with a resume featuring roles on shows like Felicity and the television move Christmas at Water's Edge.

American Girl-With movies like Molly, An American Girl on the Home Front, Felicity, An American Girl Adventure, and of course, the extremely popular Kit Kittredge, An American Girl, girls are infatuated with the American Girl line of dolls.

Lastly, we must observe that, in proportion as the legal conception of morality as a code of which the violation deserves, supernatural punishment predominated over the philosophic view of ethics as the method for attaining natural felicity, the question of man's freedom of will to obey the law necessarily became prominent.

I never hid my age to get the writing job on Felicity; I hid my age to get in the door as an actor.

Felicity brought me wonderful opportunities as a writer and to watch J.J.

She will hit the road to promote the film Georgia Rule, co-starring Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman.

Her first big acting job was on Felicity, which led her to the award-winning role as CIA Agent Sydney Bristow on the hit series, Alias.

Those supporting roles were generally amongst a star-studded cast including Meryl Streep, Felicity Huffman, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Fishburne.

Celebrities like Heidi Klum, Alicia Keys, Ron Silver, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan have been spotted wearing some of Beiner's creations.

Probably best known for his role as Ben Covington in the teenage drama Felicity, Speedman takes on a much different role as Michael Corvin in the Underworld films.

Actress Felicity Huffman plays the role of multi-tasking mom, wife, and entrepreneur Lynette Scavo to perfection.

When Lynette (Felicity Huffman) accuses Nora Huntington of coming onto her own husband, Carolyn shoots her.

The TV show Felicity begins with Felicity Porter graduating from high school.

Felicity decides to blow off her pre-med enrollment at Stanford to follow Ben across the country to the University of New York.

Her parents object and try to convince her to return to Stanford, but despite the impulse of her decision, Felicity decides to stay where she is to find herself.

She meets her resident advisor Noel played by Scott Foley and the foundation for the love triangle of the series is set between Felicity, Ben and Noel.

Felicity's freshman year finds her dealing with feelings for Ben and Noel.

Felicity makes a new friend who eventually becomes her best friend Julie played by the original Pink Power Ranger Amy Jo Johnson.

Jennifer Garner, (Alias, 13 Going on 30) appears on Felicity as Hanna, Noel's old girlfriend and potential rival for Noel's affections.

Felicity broke up with Ben and cut all her hair in the beginning of her sophomore year.

The show rebounded during Felicity's junior year as did Felicity's hair.

Felicity and Ben are together again and decide to get an apartment together.

Noel continues to long for Felicity and finds a surprising ally in Felicity's mom who doesn't believe that Ben is going anywhere in life.

Felicity and her friends cope with the pain of growing up and the consequences of bad decisions.

Felicity and her friends prepare for graduation and begin really thinking about their choices and commitments.

Felicity's impulsiveness continues to follow her as she and Noel spend a careless night together despite Felicity's continued involvement with Ben and Ben coping with his alcoholic father (John Ritter).

The TV show Felicity is available on DVD.

Abrams attributes the Alias series creation to an idea thrown around in the writer's room for Felicity and cast Felicity alum Jennifer Garner in the lead role of Sydney Bristow, a college student who is also a superspy.

Abrams. Felicity regular Greg Grunberg, a close friend of Abrams appears in many Abrams productions including Alias and Lost.

Oscar-nominated and Golden-Globe-winning actress Felicity Huffman plays overwhelmed working mother-of-four Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives.

The Felicity final episode was the culmination of a successful four season run on the WB network.

At the time, Felicity was one of the highest rated shows on the network, and fans today still discuss the episodes on the Internet through various chat rooms and fan sites.

Like many young adult dramas that have hit the airwaves, Felicity enjoyed a cult following for the four years it was on the air.