beatific

Example Sentences

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She started off strong, rich and nuanced in Dejanira’s bleak lament about her husband’s long absence and her beatific vision of their future together after death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

She was usually photographed gazing adoringly up at her husband, often while gathering their children around her in a beatific — and patriarchal — tableau.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025

Mr Kirke later said jumping from Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 150-year-old structure, was an "almost beatific moment".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

The movie’s most mercurial and multitasking figure, Carmen is also a woman of God, clad in beatific nuns’ robes and coiffed like Dreyer’s Joan of Arc, who means to exorcise the demon in their midst.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Although she twists her body into unimaginable and painful-looking positions, her beatific smile remains in place.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern