beatitude
Example Sentences
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In the unrepentant shadows it’s hard to tell if he’s studying or mediating, but it’s still a beatitude of Blackness: color as signifier, color as artifact, color as stone cold fact.
From New York Times
After surgery, Price describes “a kind of stunned beatitude.”
From Salon
There is no Dante in Beatrice’s beatitude, Hägglund writes, and no Beatrice in Dante’s beatitude.
From The New Yorker
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
Accordingly, they took the holiday and its secular beatitudes very seriously—a day of fervent gratitude for being alive, for being together, and for having a home.
From The New Yorker
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