How to Use beatific in a Sentence

beatific

adjective

• Under the wimple, her face had a beatific glow that lit up the stage.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Scenes from the film seem to recapture the beatific landscape of his youth.
  — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 24 May 2022
• Prager bounced her beatific year-old son, Francis, on one hip while gaffers and grips arranged the lighting for the next shot.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2019
• The final photo is a beatific scene, with mother and child bathed in the heavenly light of a TV screen.
  — Barbara Schreiber, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
• Dancing like his life depends on it, a beatific smile on his face.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2022
• That King — the fuzzy, feel-good one who had a dream, the one whose image was splashed across a Dodge ad during the Super Bowl — is beatific and beautiful.
  — Caille Millner, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• From time to time, my husband laps me, skating fast and gracefully, a beatific look on his face.
  — Allie Rowbottom, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Lil Uzi Vert is younger, and meshes his upheaval with splashes of beatific love.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2016
• Of those movies, The Tree of Life solidified one essential strain of the Chastain persona: the beatific young mom and wife.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• Aw, Emily Blunt with the beatific smile for her tiny adorable child who wants an electronic toy instead of the homemade felt toys his mom sewed!
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 6 Apr. 2018
• The writings of Kristen Arnett are a beatific study in contrasts.
  — Tobias Carroll, Longreads, 6 June 2019
• Idyllic imagery of nature, with the camera taking flight through treetops, leads to a closeup of the beatific face of the boy’s mother.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• With a sanguine two-chord hook, the song registered as a beatific ode to summer; it was released in May and hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts in mid-July.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• This isn’t even the beatific glow of the grocery store refrigerator, though.
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The image is languorous and impish: Ms. Lang leans her head back onto Ms. Crawford’s breasts, eyes closed, her smile beatific.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• There was little room for a beatific kid like Maivia, grinning come victory or loss.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• A fleeting admission of boredom is met with beatific smiles, and the most lively debate occurs over which stick might best be used to beat a drum.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• That’s the story told by the film’s poster, which features a diptych of star Mark Wahlberg, looking rough and rueful in a mug shot and then beatific in Catholic clergy apparel.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But his odd little picture, with its deep lavender skies and beatific glow, has been a consistent visual stand-in for Brook Farm.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• The expression on the face of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was beatific.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• Petrenko conducted with a beatific look on his face, a warm smile, Dalai Lama-like, showing not so much happiness but serenity, even in the face of doubt and tragedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Galadriel, played by Cate Blanchett as a beatific and wise elf elder in the movies, is a (relatively) young woman and fierce warrior, played here by Morfydd Clark.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2022
• But her hands are as steady as ever, as Francis’s beatific image watches over her every move.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 4 May 2017
• Almost as captivating as that viral photo of the star wrapped in a blanket, Fendi Baguette at her side, beatific smile on her face.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
• All this might make the movie sound like an unusually zany albeit topical riff on the holy-fool narrative, the tale of a beatific soul who is too stupid and too saintly for this world.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• Osaka gently raised her racquet above her head in victory, and that beatific smile spread across her face.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2021
• For years, that prophecy and his own beatific disposition were PK’s only birthright.
  — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• The beatific expression on his face was almost shocking.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Drawing from these sources, the resulting models were detailed, rendered lovingly, with the growth of the fetus and birth progressing as a serene, beatific event.
  — Stephanie Gorton, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
• By the end, the witnesses who’ve undergone these experiences are proselytizing, with beatific smiles, for the eternal life of the soul.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024