Philosophically, wine writers are much alike; they vary only in degrees of felicitousness.

Getting things accomplished in the criminal justice system - really getting them accomplished - requires a certain felicitousness.

Fred Lerdahl's "Fantasy Etudes" (1985) offered the felicitousness of a variation set that unfolds with unarguable logic yet is full of surprising turns and textures.

Henderson is slight and reminiscent of a smaller, bespectacled Bill Irwin without the undercurrent of darkness and with a felicitousness of speech that is funny and engaging, most of it thrown away in the manner of an understated comedian.