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  • 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)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • 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)
  • The camerlegno was nothing like the images of frail, beatific old men Langdon usually imagined roaming the Vatican.†  (source)
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  • 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)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • Before clicking it into his skull socket he looked at me again, almost beatifically.†  (source)
    beatifically = in a manner that expresses or produces a calm joy
  • And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace.†  (source)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • "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)
    beatifically = in a manner that expresses or produces a calm joy
  • 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)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • They all smiled beatifically.†  (source)
    beatifically = in a manner that expresses or produces a calm joy
  • "This one seems to bring out bizarrely strong reactions in our kind," she observed, smiling directly at me, her face beatific.†  (source)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • 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)
    beatifically = in a manner that expresses or produces a calm joy
  • Dark, soulful eyes and that small, mysterious, beatific smile.†  (source)
    beatific = expressing or producing a calm joy
  • Changazi stood as beatifically still as a portrait of a revered prophet.†  (source)
    beatifically = in a manner that expresses or produces a calm joy
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