There is a grace in their weakness, he muses, smiling
beatifically. "It is a privilege to be among them."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hammond strikes his best Prof Brian Cox poses, gazing
beatifically at the stars, standing over a vast crevasse, but he lacks the authority.
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.
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.
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.
Rather than marinating in the vapors of hell, his disembodied head floats
beatifically over a cable news-style crawl text: "What Would Marx Think?"
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)
XOCHIL, still smiling
beatifically, crosses to MAD DOG and gives him a resounding slap that knocks him down.