How To Use Infelicitous In A Sentence
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But if literary language is performative and if a performative utterance is not true or false but felicitous or infelicitous, what does it mean for a literary utterance to be felicitous or infelicitous?
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It was a smart neologism, I suppose, even if a bit infelicitous.
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Such infelicitous phrasing is, as we've often seen, indicative of an eddy or whorl under the surface of the poem.
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the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
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Your driving fast parallel is spectacularly infelicitous, unless you are suggesting that 'mania junior is the most likely to be damaged by a form of' asocial 'behaviour, be it going to a school where teachers wear gowns, playing chicken on the M1 or driving too fast.
Ironic Ducks
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And Reeve nails the problem with market-led concepts of desert only to adumbrate an alternative that is equally infelicitous.
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Somewhat infelicitous and arrhythmic on paper, the pledge is powerful when chanted out loud by thousands.
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infelicitous circumstances
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The use of the word 'predominately' was not occasional nor infelicitous.
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Nevertheless, the party's support is up, and there are elections on the way, which is a not infelicitous situation for any political leader to be in.
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Second, the felicity, if I may infelicitously use the word, of death is zero.
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In the end, few if any Egyptians were convinced of the chief French proclamation which announced, in infelicitous Arabic style, that they had come to liberate them by the sword.
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Additionally, they didn't view their admittedly infelicitous subject matter as somehow requiring a huskier or aggressive musical stance.
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The style is engaging, but the choice of words is sometimes infelicitous.
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But if literary language is performative and if a performative utterance is not true or false but felicitous or infelicitous, what does it mean for a literary utterance to be felicitous or infelicitous?
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Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances.
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infelicitous phrasing
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I can sort of see my way through, but I have trouble explaining why the following is infelicitous.
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But when the point of an interview is to convey information and ideas clearly, the motive to catch a subject saying something infelicitous appears bizarre.
Sam Harris: The Perils of the Print Interview
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Perhaps no work in the genre infelicitously labeled science fiction has had so much influence or staying power.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80
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His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level.
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Most infelicitously, Jordan Lage, who can be a problem even in one part, is made to play seven.
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an infelicitous remark
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It is customary to distinguish the internal from the external work of art: the terminology seems here to be infelicitous, for the work of art (the aesthetic work) is always _internal_; and that which is called _external_ is no longer a work of art.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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The style is engaging, but the choice of words is sometimes infelicitous.
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A performative that "works" is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous.
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My own views, however infelicitously expressed, are more definitive and negative than yours.
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Such infelicitous phrasing is, as we've often seen, indicative of an eddy or whorl under the surface of the poem.
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Not only does this scene and violence occur at the dinner table, but the line of aggression that begins this infelicitous breach of dinner conduct is "I'll eat you alive, girl!
Bess Rowen: Putting the Eat in Theatre
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We were surprised today to learn that Mayor Bloomberg dismissed his hand-picked Schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, after 97 infelicitous days as chief of New York City's school system.
Henry J. Stern: Black Thursday
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Hoping to make up for his infelicitous soup comment, Stan chimes in with his own compliments.
The Search
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This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
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After the war, Smith convinced prohibitionists to organize within the infelicitously named Anti-Dramshop Party.
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There is little, however, of that rapturous extasy which issues from many a finally most infelicitous husband, some days, weeks, or even months, after the conjugal union.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
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Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
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His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level.
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It accounts for the occasional lapses into infelicitous sentiment, tired phrasing and intrusive personal details that would have appalled the American.
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Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances.
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On top of his last Parliamentary committee appearance, where among other infelicitous comments, Griffin said that he didn't understand his organisation's budget, he has since dropped a clanger on his relationship with the Government.
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Given the infelicitous effects of other utterances in the play, Titus's vow during this extended ritual does not act as directly or causatively as he thinks it does.
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Again, he is often loose and vacillating in the use of the English words he has selected as corresponding to the technical phraseology of the Arabian jurists, and sometimes infelicitous in the selection of his English terms.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
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We now permit priests to leave the active ministry and remain good Catholics, albeit ‘reduced to the lay state ‘- as infelicitous a phrase as the canonists have ever devised.’
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Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
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‘I think we need ‘Insensitivity Training’ to equip people to get through life without freaking out every time somebody opens their mouth and says something slightly infelicitous.’
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The four disciplines of aquatic sports, namely swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming are infelicitous and poorly represented.
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It's a sad statement about where public discourse is that, in response to this particularly infelicitous choice of phrase, the defense that is used is, "She has no real idea what any of the words mean.
Is Miss America to blame for Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' video?
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For Rand had already feared this; had recalled the few infelicitous relations, legal and illegal, which were common to the adjoining camp, -- the flagrantly miserable life of the husband of a San Francisco anonyma who lived in style at the Ferry, the shameful carousals and more shameful quarrels of the Frenchman and Mexican woman who "kept house" at "the Crossing," the awful spectacle of the three half-bred Indian children who played before the cabin of a fellow miner and townsman.
The Twins of Table Mountain
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Ontologically speaking," he might have mused, "how could conservatism ever really be said to be turbo-charged, as you so infelicitously put it?
Buckley, If Not God, Returns to Yale
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Thus, AngloSaxon corporatism was constrained in two important ways: by an infelicitous social setting and by unresponsive, even antagonistic, state institutions.
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I have no real doubt that, despite the infelicitous wording of the passage relied on by the claimants, the committee would have understood the report in the way I have indicated.
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This is… infelicitous at best, worrisomely revealing at worst.
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he chose his words rather infelicitously
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Somewhat infelicitous and arrhythmic on paper, the pledge is powerful when chanted out loud by thousands.
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Finally, do not feel unfortunate or infelicitous.
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Every scholar and teacher has a list of infelicitous translations which misrepresent or distort the meaning intended by biblical authors.
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The use of the word 'predominately' was not occasional nor infelicitous.
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