Felicitous & Felicity

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–adjective 

1. well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease. 

2. having a special ability for suitable manner or expression, as a person. 



felicity

–noun 

1. the state of being happy, esp. in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity. 

2. an instance of this.

3. a source of happiness. 



4. a skillful faculty: felicity of expression.  



5. an instance or display of this: the many felicities of the poem. 

6. Archaic. good fortune. 





　

Shade, thinking that finding a mate for her mother may offer some sort of family panacea, actually arranges a blind date (in an extremely funny dinner scene staged in the family's cramped mobile home) between Nora and a man with whom she has already had a long, deflating affair. 



Each of the three [principals] has learned the hard way that Laramie is a small town. Although the self-sufficiency of its heroines is always apparent, "Gas Food Lodging" pivots upon the arrival of various male strangers on this desolate scene. 



Although Ms. Anders (whose screenplay is based on a novel by Richard Peck) has to rely twice on introducing characters when one finds another crying, the meetings are felicitous and the tears very easy to understand. 



But "Gas Food Lodging" takes a wry, upbeat view of its principals, despite the enormous obstacles that face them and despite the absurdity of their plight. The fact that Shade is sweet on a boy who wishes she were more like Olivia Newton-John, or that Nora can stagger out of her trailer at dawn and bump into a possible Mr. Right, only heightens these women's justly whimsical view of the world. 





incontinent

contingent

contingent [liability]

Our plans are contingent [on] the weather.  

Have the [Scottish] contingent arrived at the meeting yet?

extraneous

pertinent

It might be [pertinent] for you to make the suggestion to the president.

The lawyer wanted to know all the details [pertinent] to the case.

Klaws, a nice middle-aged couple who just happen to specialize in mild S&M and bondage photographs. The [pertinent] photo shoots are represented as silly,

apposite

The combination of [stilted] speeches and deft behavioral acting sometimes seems peculiar, but it is also peculiarly [apposite].

cogent

the brief affair serves as a cogent [illustration] of how the film conveys only a fraction of the nuances and layers of the book.

His remarks were an entirely [cogent] and candid summing up of the state of affairs, and, among the [cadre] of Nixon haters,

Flabbergast