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She smiled at my concerns like someone in a general state of beatitude.beatitude = supreme happiness
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Her favorite Beatitude is "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth."beatitude = one of the nine sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount
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And then—after the Beatitudes, and the sermon by the stranger— the Nicene Creed felt forced to me.† (source)
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For lunch it was the Beatitudes.† (source)
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Someone had uncovered the story of Clara's childhood muteness and the curse of Father Restrepo— that saintly man who the Church was hoping would become the first in the country to attain beatitude.† (source)
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In his autobiography, in which he always referred to himself in the third person, he described himself as "an innocent with his heart wrapped up in the arts, in the philosophies, in the religions, in the beatitudes of nature's loveliness, in his search for the reality of man, in his profound faith in the beneficence of power."† (source)
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Still, they were remarkable photographs, and what made them so was Perry's expression, his look of unflawed fulfillment, of beatitude, as though at last, and as in one of his dreams, a tall yellow bird had hauled him to heaven.† (source)
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In the time it took Lara, clutching her pennies in her fist, to make her way to the door past the worshippers without disturbing them, buy two candles for herself and Olia, and turn back, Prov Afanasievich had rattled off nine of the beatitudes at a pace suggesting that they were well enough known without him.† (source)
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His patients, who were all women, stood in smiling poses—provocative poses, Matron thought—that Charcot had labeled "Crucifixion" and "Beatitude."† (source)
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She followed him, verse after verse, through the Beatitudes and Let your light so shine, and on, skipping, to Consider the lilies.† (source)
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You look like a Christian Beatitude.† (source)
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Yet, thinking on the Beatitudes, on the Sermon on the Mount, on St. John and his direct seeing and interpretation of Christ and God.† (source)
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All of his depravity had been enacted in a vacuum of sinless and businesslike godlessness, while his soul thirsted for beatitude.† (source)
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Not till I had repeated the Blessings' (he meant the Buddhist Beatitudes) 'did I achieve calm.† (source)
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There Kerouac joined the poet Allen Ginsberg and others in the Beat Movement, in alcohol-and-drug-fueled protest against the conformity and crass consumerism of 1950s America, which made them feel beaten, longing for the beatitude, or blessedness, of the natural world.† (source)
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she invented "divine right of kings," and propped it all around, brick by brick, with the Beatitudes —wrenching them from their good purpose to make them fortify an evil one;† (source)
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