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Verbal felicities, haunting or explosive imagery, the architectonic dazzlements of rhyme and meter — all these are dwarfed by American poetry’s reverence for genuineness, for authenticity.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019

Just a few minutes into “Moonlight,” Jenkins has already created a masterwork, one in which the intensity of emotional experience arises from the nearly microscopic observational felicities that fill the film.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2016

Forman's movie has its felicities, but the Altman/Doctorow project must surely take its place among the greatest movies never made.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2015

This was dancing where you kept noticing further felicities of style.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2012

We must endeavor to smile not just with the face upon the sweet felicities of others, but with the heart.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson