beatifically

Example Sentences

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On the screen, he smiled beatifically about this.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

Around the basin curve again, not far from where Busse was sprawling, a young woman in a striking, long pink flowered kimono smiled beatifically, an antidote to lingering pandemic sadness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

The vice-president, Mike Pence, standing a short distance behind, smiled beatifically.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2019

This opening chapter accompanies Buster through a series of equally gory and pointless Wild West shootouts, culminating in a comical magic-realist moment in which a deceased character can be seen ascending beatifically to another plane.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2018

Afterward he smiled beatifically and offered us tea.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer