Sample Sentences forbeatific (editor-reviewed)
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She has a beatific smile that makes you feel like all is well in the world.beatific = expressing a calm joy
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Behind that beatific smile lies a psychotic killer.
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Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. (source)beatifically = with a calm joy
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And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace.† (source)
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Later, he would say that I gave him a beatific smile.† (source)
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Dark, soulful eyes and that small, mysterious, beatific smile.† (source)
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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)
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Before clicking it into his skull socket he looked at me again, almost beatifically.† (source)
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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)
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They all smiled beatifically.† (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)
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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)
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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)
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Changazi stood as beatifically still as a portrait of a revered prophet.† (source)
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But in all those pictures, all dime-store images painted on cardboard, the face of Christ was beatific, as, I believed, would be the face of God.† (source)
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Afterward he smiled beatifically and offered us tea.† (source)
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