well chosen or suited to the circumstances; appropriate secondary meaning: pleasing or fortunate
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@mobiquotes.bsky.social
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
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@mobiquotes.bsky.social
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
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@drberger.bsky.social
I am very taken with this piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on vice signaling (his felicitous coinage about a maleficent phenomenon). And I wonder if any providers out there would like to think together with me on how we can manage to express virtue in *our* in-groups, and tamp down what will +
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