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They often somewhat infelicitously termed these forms "mental prayer."

His "food establishment" is followed, in the late 60's and after, by a group he somewhat infelicitously calls "the countercuisinists."

This Act is infelicitously named.

After considerable debate, my wife relented and let Jeremy go to the tryouts, which were infelicitously scheduled during our daughter's 11th birthday party.

A cooked dish infelicitously named broiled squid feet can be ordered with miso, butter or just salt.

"I told her, not as many rumors as would be caused by the infelicitously early arrival of a babe three or four months after we were married."

It began, infelicitously, when a steward walked into the Clintons' bedroom on one of their first mornings in the White House, while they were still asleep.

It's a routine sandal-and-toga recital of an early, infelicitously written work that, more than its betters in the canon, demands extravagant imagination and passion to rouse audiences.

Ankake is the term for a strong clear broth mixed with mountain potato, a white tuber whose texture when grated can be most accurately, if infelicitously, described as slimy.

After seeing the stunning, if infelicitously titled exhibition, "Picasso & Things," here at the Cleveland Museum of Art, it is hard to disagree with Mr. Richardson.

Ian Bostridge, an English tenor, was warmly praised recently for what one critic somewhat infelicitously called his "self-elimination" during a performance of Schumann's "Dichterliebe," of all things.

Infelicitously hung at knee level, Ms. Mayocole's "Fire Sign: Party Line" (2001) consists of tight rows of colored, segmented shapes in the midst of a grid.

The Cathedral has intermittently been the home of impressive liturgy and music (see Donald M. Kendrick); latterly its worship has been infelicitously described as "high church meets happy clappy."

The menu now offers two main-course options: conventional plates of food composed by Ms. O'Donnell or those that she infelicitously calls Protein Plus 2, her version of the Tennessee meat-and-three.

This Irish Oath, of 1774, was accepted by the legislative authorities as proof of loyalty, and it was freely taken, though several clauses were infelicitously worded, though no advantage accrued from so doing.

That she had played the part of one, however, was made plain by the faint odor of onions still clinging to her and mixing rather infelicitously with the richer and pleasanter odor of the limo's interior.

For once, the main event at the Biennale is the main event at the Biennale, namely the giant, messy, idiosyncratic and absolutely compelling show, infelicitously titled "Identity and Alterity."

Critics point out that "when Bartlett is told the "tragic" story of a young lady who has come infelicitously to the hotel, a lady whom he is destined to wed, he exclaims, tellingly: "Oh, come now!

He favoured me with a catalogue of the serviced he had rendered to the country, adding, a trifle infelicitously, I felt, a list of the distinguished persons whom he had - as he regrettably put it - forced to play ball with him.

But here their fake little trees and flowers entailed much vapid craftsmanship, and the Art Nouveau overview at the Victoria and Albert Museum nearby infelicitously made for a telling counterpoint, nature having inspired a century ago a vastly richer artistic efflorescence.

There is also a rather charming chain of impressionistic associations with the names of Warsaw in different languages - Polish, French, Yiddish, German, Russian - though ending infelicitously with the observation that in English "Warsaw" is the city that "saw war."

The anxieties about "sovereign debt" have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries-Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain-have huge debt burdens, and where Greece in particular is in dire need of assistance.

The implicit premise of the show at the Burden Gallery (20 East 23d Street) of contemporary Soviet photography - infelicitously named "Photostroika: New Soviet Photography," and running through May 26 -is that the vanguard spirit of Rodchenko has reappeared.

As I was losing to the disk, momentarily distracted by an infelicitously translated "Recondita armonia," the program book disappeared, replaced by a picture of Verdi and the legend: "Now you can own all the arias you'll ever need, on three CD's or two long-playing cassettes, for only $24.95!"