Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a beatific manner.
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- adverb In a
beatific manner.
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Examples
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According to meticulously orchestrated closing-day news reports, Shanghai Expo was all about a 21st century global village for which China, arms stretch wide, had become a beatifically smiling citizen.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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According to meticulously orchestrated closing-day news reports, Shanghai Expo was all about a 21st century global village for which China had morphed into a beatifically-smiling citizen.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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The bird jerked spasmodically and sprayed blood on the alter, the sheriff and the children as the fat man looked beatifically up to the ceiling and said, “May our lord accept this blood sacrifice as an atonement for our sins!”
Sacrifice Hugh Barlow 2011
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According to meticulously orchestrated closing-day news reports, Shanghai Expo was all about a 21st century global village for which China, arms stretch wide, had become a beatifically smiling citizen.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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According to meticulously orchestrated closing-day news reports, Shanghai Expo was all about a 21st century global village for which China had morphed into a beatifically-smiling citizen.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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One day she might be the stoic saint coping with marital adversity or the Mother Teresa of The X Factor, smiling beatifically as her kids perform for her; the next she might be the hard-nosed bitch who lip-syncs her way through a "live" TV performance while her X Factor wannabes have to do it for real, and who is happy to advertise L'Oréal shampoo while wearing hair extensions.
Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year' Simon Hattenstone 2010
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A preview of Francis Manapul's Adventure art shows the Boy of Steel playing catch with Krypto under the wide Kansas skies, as Martha Kent looks on beatifically.
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She looked at Calvin, who nodded beatifically, and stepped outside, closing the door behind her.
Sunshine Loop Marcelle Heath 2011
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After saying this, Bachardy smiled beatifically and showed off the gap between his front teeth, one of the features that attracted Isherwood to the "brilliant wide-openness" of his blithe, gauche Californian face.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010
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According to meticulously orchestrated closing-day news reports, Shanghai Expo was all about a 21st century global village for which China had morphed into a beatifically-smiling citizen.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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