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beatific
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She was usually photographed gazing adoringly up at her husband, often while gathering their children around her in a beatific — and patriarchal — tableau.
Pope John Paul II, who had ascended to the papacy in 1978, toured the world like a beatific rock star, preaching the gospel of this new sobriety in football stadiums across the country.
But the beatific, charismatic painter, who developed a rock-star following, was not all that he seemed.
When the crowd started chanting "lock him up" when Clinton mentioned Trump's felony convictions and she smiled beatifically the crowd roared —- she had earned that.
As Chapman sang and played guitar, she looked satisfied, serene, almost beatific.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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