beatitude
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Religious folks have words for such spasmodic departures from the everyday, like beatitude, nirvana, ecstasy.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
It also supplies a backdrop of human folly to throw the beatitude of Adam and his robot kin into sharp relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
As he understood it, enlightenment is not a state of permanent bliss and beatitude.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 29, 2017
“Blessed are the peacemakers,” Art II said while reading the seventh beatitude, “for they shall be called the children of God.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2017
I need not tell you that large, yea, enormous quantities of beatitude are smuggled out of your dominions.”
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
Virtually from the moment they started writing songs, Jagger and Richards were drawn to darkness: certainly, they were better at depicting decay and decadence than delivering pie-eyed hippy beatitudes.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2018
Every one of Jesus’s beatitudes was fewer than 140 characters, so there’s no reason the faith’s message cannot be delivered effectively in today’s social media era.
From Time ● Mar. 18, 2016
This was a Sermon on the Mount moment, wherein the beatitudes of a new era were laid down.
From Slate ● May 1, 2015
Nebraska's Norris offered some beatitudes of his own making: Blessed are they who starve while the asses and the mules are fed, for they shall be buried at public expense.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gospel pronounces beatitudes of another style: “Blessed are the poor in spirit; blessed the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the persecuted.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
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