Also of note: the picture of Erica looking beatific is amazing, and the Lion King pose Shawn is doing with Jude in that one pic is amazing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What is the experience we call the beatific vision in heaven? ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)
She knew that often, an expression of beatific peace appeared on the deceased’s face just before death’s final blow. ❋ PATRICIA CABOT (2001)
To see God face to face, which is called the beatific vision, is not the natural destiny of man, nor of any possible creature. ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)
In other ages he would have been canonized as a saint or called the beatific doctor; but in Boston he was a heretic and a reformer, who sought to lead men into a faith that is ethical, sincere, and humanitarian. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
The crisis ran through its usual course, ending in a state of rapture, during which she enjoyed for days 'a kind of beatific vision of God. ' ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)
But he seems to have thought that going to court was like going to heaven; that to see princes and princesses was a kind of beatific vision; that the exquisite felicity enjoyed by royal persons was not confined to themselves, but was communicated by some mysterious efflux or reflection to all who were suffered to stand at their toilettes, or to bear their trains. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
Though Kerouac and Ginsberg each sought to elevate the term "Beat Generation" into something "beatific," John Clellon Holmes, who gave the term currency in a 1952 article, paraphrased Kerouac saying, "It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul," a feeling of being beaten down to the bedrock of consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By contrast, the members of Tinariwen radiate a kind of beatific serenity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"beatific," of ideal personalities in life and art, yet these moments were a very costly matter: they paid a great price for them, in the sacrifice of a thousand possible sympathies, of things only to be enjoyed through sympathy, from which they detached themselves, in intellectual pride, in loyalty to a mere theory that would take nothing for granted, and assent to no approximate or hypothetical truths. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
Meryl keeps repeatedly white-water rafting through V-shaped canyons with a beatific and ecstatic look on her face. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A bizarre mix of hating women and being jealous of them, all wrapped up in high-minded images of beatific mothers. brianbeutler Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)
The sunlight illumines her face; she looks beatific beneath the trees. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)
Their house was straight out of Boccaccio—the large open hearth with a big black kettle hanging from an iron hook, a blackened ceiling, an old church calendar with a beatific Madonna and child. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)
Louise moved with grace and poise, a small, but beatific smile on her lips, her eyes fixed on Nelson, whose eyes were locked on hers. ❋ V.C.Andrews (2011)
For categorical proof, just watch Prime Minister's Question Time from any of the innumerable erstwhile British colonies (or Mother Britain herself); there, leaders are not treated as beatific paragons of unassailable virtue, but as human beings accountable to the greater representative body. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He peered at her face, at the beatific expression she wore. ❋ David R. George III (2011)
The beatific "Convento," from Brooklyn documentarian Jarred Alterman , visits with Dutch artist Christiaan Zwanikken at a reclaimed 17th-century monastery in Portugal. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
T.R. Knight, once upon a time the beatific BFF of all the Grey's Anatomy gals, is this week's guest rapist on Law & Order: SVU? ❋ Unknown (2011)
