infelicities

This would be because he lives with one and is fairly familiar with many others at this stage, and he has had to endure our horrible fears about the infelicities in our use of language and our ability to write, period.

msagara: Good Enough is Never Enough. Maybe... msagara 2009

I find that even the algorithm-generated “non-sense” and “infelicities” have something to teach me.

Messages from the clouds 2010

Like Hank's fictional book, initial versions of my novel were top-heavy with complaint the infelicities and pains-in-the-ass that arise day-to-day when working among other human beings and their foibles.

A Conversation with Joshua Ferris 2010

From "I Feel Pretty" in West Side Story, where street-toned, Puerto Rican Maria suddenly comes out with the absurdly sophisticated "it's alarming how charming I feel", to structural infelicities in his 16-performance flop Merrily We Roll Along, he openly interrogates his first 13 shows from conception to execution in a way other artists have only ever dared leave to critics.

Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review David Benedict 2010

Passages of great eloquence cohabit with woolly arguments, infelicities of tone and bizarre episodes of carelessness—perhaps pointing to a fundamental mismatch of writer and subject.

A Peaceable Canvas Jonathan Lopez 2011

Private Eye's Colemanballs, named after the great gaffe-prone David Coleman "Moses Kiptanui; the 19-year-old Kenyan who turned 20 a few weeks ago," among many others and now expanded to include verbal infelicities uttered on TV and radio by just about anybody, documents them fortnightly.

Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net' 2011

Last night when I came across these two sentences, I was reminded how important catching such infelicities can be.

Word Repetition and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010

Last night when I came across these two sentences, I was reminded how important catching such infelicities can be.

Word Repetition and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010

If the reader stops and thinks about it, there are lots of infelicities of craft in this novel ...

The Surrendered: Summary and book reviews of The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee. 2010

Some of the “infelicities” in Hardy remind me of other poets who essentially taught themselves as poets, in many cases by reading lots of poetry, but who never studied Poetry, or in some cases even grammar, in more formal educational settings.

Notes on the personal, musical, inexact Thomas Hardy 2009