beatific

in a sentence

One of his last acts was to take a picture of himself, standing near the bus under the high Alaska sky, one hand holding his final note toward the camera lens, the other raised in a brave, beatific farewell.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The Jal Mahal Restaruant (sic) was a shabby, tucked-away Indian on the second floor of a storefront on Lex where not a thing had changed since I was a kid: not the pappadums, not the prices, not the carpet faded pink from water damage near the windows, not even the waiters: the same heavy, beatific, gentle faces I remembered from childhood when my mother and I had gone there after the movies for samosas and mango ice cream.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

The camerlegno was nothing like the images of frail, beatific old men Langdon usually imagined roaming the Vatican.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

She always looks worried when I'm at the dictionary so I tell her I'm looking for canonize or beatific or any class of a religious word.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Before clicking it into his skull socket he looked at me again, almost beatifically.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace.†  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

"Oh, come on," I said, looking at the dance floor, where of course my mother was now staring right at me, smiling beatifically and waggling her fingers in that come-here-now kind of way.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby, 2002

Behind him was a fourth staff member, this one a beatific-looking man of about thirty-five, by far the oldest person Mae had met that day.†  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

They all smiled beatifically.†  (source) Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted, 1997

"This one seems to bring out bizarrely strong reactions in our kind," she observed, smiling directly at me, her face beatific.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

As Yossarian stared, the chaplain elevated his gaze toward Yossarian beatifically, pressed his fingers down over his eyeballs in a manner of affliction, peered upward again toward Yossarian searchingly, and bowed his head, concluding what Yossarian took to be a climactic part of the funeral rite.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Dark, soulful eyes and that small, mysterious, beatific smile.†  (source) Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea, 2014

Changazi stood as beatifically still as a portrait of a revered prophet.†  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006