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beatific

of, conferring, or relating to a state of celestial happiness

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There is a grace in their weakness, he muses, smiling beatifically. "It is a privilege to be among them."

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Does Miss want a selfie with me?" He is all laughter and, dressed in neat dark blue jeans, a navy shirt and casual trainers, he smiles beatifically at every camera phone before him, then, in the relative safe haven of the first-floor roof, he pulls similar expressions for our photographer's camera.

Just doing it for the kids; It's been a funny couple of years for Gethin Jones, going from being one half of Wales' first couple to the tabloid's stud du jour. As he embarks on a new presenting role, he tells Kirstie McCrum about fulfilling his greatest ambition - that of being a father

We jumped up and semi-bowed, He smiled beatifically, reached for the socket behind me and removed an iPhone put to charge, which he slipped in his scarlet robes.

Himachal Pradesh - Counting stars

He came up through a trapdoor to that tribal beat and blew us all away, running backwards and forwards down the runways, while Charlie Watts beamed beatifically from behind the drums.

Mick Jagger made me cry

Harper's estranged best friend, Lance (Morris Chestnut), is nearing the end of his final season as a running back for the New York Giants, poised to break the all-time career rushing record, while his wife (Monica Calhoun) and four angelic children gaze on beatifically.

Cluttered sequel far from the 'Best'

Hammond strikes his best Prof Brian Cox poses, gazing beatifically at the stars, standing over a vast crevasse, but he lacks the authority.

It's a waste of space

But Saidman Yee, whether perching beatifically in full lotus position before 40-odd prone bodies or prowling among them like a jungle cat, emits at 53 her own curious, almost celestial incandescence.

The first lady of yoga

OK, so stick him in one of the marble halls hosting International Olympic Committee blazers and get him to hand out Ferrero Rocher while smiling beatifically.

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I have first-hand experience of that spirit, having played against the Corinthian Casuals as a spiky schoolboy - when I deliberately trod on the toes of the Casuals' goalkeeper at a corner, he just smiled beatifically at me.

Rich rogues in lycra is just not in the Olympic spirit

Rather than marinating in the vapors of hell, his disembodied head floats beatifically over a cable news-style crawl text: "What Would Marx Think?"

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The persistence of hope beyond history reminds us that even when we "see" God in heaven, God will be, in the striking phrase of Gabriel Daly, "beatifically incomprehensible." (15)

Hope and the church: a trilogy

XOCHIL, still smiling beatifically, crosses to MAD DOG and gives him a resounding slap that knocks him down.