How to Use beatific in a Sentence

beatific

adjective
  • Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Under the wimple, her face had a beatific glow that lit up the stage.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Dancing like his life depends on it, a beatific smile on his face.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2022
  • Her hair is now short and white, her vibe eternally beatific.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Scenes from the film seem to recapture the beatific landscape of his youth.
    — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • There’s a certain beatific joyfulness in that song.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There was little room for a beatific kid like Maivia, grinning come victory or loss.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 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
  • Lil Uzi Vert is younger, and meshes his upheaval with splashes of beatific love.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2016
  • 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
  • This isn’t even the beatific glow of the grocery store refrigerator, though.
    — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The result has his dancers alternately making beatific faces and hissing like cats.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 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
  • The writings of Kristen Arnett are a beatific study in contrasts.
    — Tobias Carroll, Longreads, 6 June 2019
  • In the wake of episodes that evoke a crawl across a wasteland, the conflict is resolved in favor of the major, in a beatific pianissimo.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Kate has always turned heads and inspired headlines with her beatific, too-perfect-to-be-true constitution.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place that glides serenely along beneath a beatific sun.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Harris perched like a dancer in her hammocks, tilting toward her model’s shoulders, a beatific expression on her face.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But Rudolph finds a way in, as eating nuclear-grade hot wings forms cracks in that beatific Beyoncé façade.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • For years, that prophecy and his own beatific disposition were PK’s only birthright.
    — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • An earnest, privileged, beatific enclave on the far western edge of North America has rushed in to fill the gap.
    — Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 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
  • Then there’s the whistle cue when Quint is standing on the bow, oddly beatific in the midst of extraordinary peril.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Posters and murals featuring Chavez’s beatific face sprouted in the Southwest and beyond.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • That sincere belief in the serenity of golfing is affirmed by the beatific animation.
    — Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025

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