But the path to sainthood is often more bureaucratic than beatific.
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To Dreher, a devout Christian, she seemed beatific in her suffering.
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One had her eyes closed, a beatific expression on her face.
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It was beatific catharsis, a perfect balance of insolence and agony.
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We look up in beatific wonder at all we have accomplished.
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Sorrenti's girlfriend, model Jaime King, is nearly beatific in thin, listless deshabille.
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One night last year, the fence sprouted a beatific vision in purple.
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Bouverie shows how the British responded with beatific and ultimately delusional equanimity.
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A beatific peace comes into her face; she looks, momentarily, like a martyr.
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Remarkably, his beatific innocence remains intact, as does the lightheartedness of the narration.
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"We can all learn from each other," he said, with a beatific smile.
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He made eye contact—a vestigial reflex, perhaps—and had a beatific vibe.
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Surely he couldn't possibly be the beatific character he portrayed on his show?
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"We're very idealistic, as you can tell," Viswanathan says, flashing a beatific smile.
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"My sleep ritual is about to begin," Ms. Huffington said with a beatific smile.
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Lil Uzi Vert is younger, and meshes his upheaval with splashes of beatific love.
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He looked too beatific and asked me a clueless question about what was ahead.
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Take the beatific Princess Zelda (1994) or the permanently kidnapped Pauline in Donkey Kong.
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When Ernest Cline's Ready Player One was published in 21990, the reviews were ecstatic, beatific.
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For Ms. Gibson, a natural introvert with a beatific smile, notoriety has been an adjustment.
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"Oh, there were a number of things," Hornaceck said, never losing his beatific half smile.
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I did not experience the beatific vision on the many trips I took to Notre Dame.
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"I've come to the realization that you're all I ever wanted," Jenna tells a beatific Jordan.
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She winds up in a camp called Comfort, run by a beatific cult leader (Keanu Reeves).
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Risso, the nervousness of the week finally dissipating, stood in the throng with a beatific grin.
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In Ellen Harvey's Nostalgia, the spiritual and the secular converge into a beatific, nature-based sublime.
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The spiritual and the secular, a beatific nature-based sublime and raucous pop culture enticements, converge.
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Again and again, we become unwitting participants in Moreau's sado-masochistic spectacles, his beatific and brooding reveries.
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"I'll tell you when you turn the tape off," he deadpanned before breaking into a beatific grin.
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You can see exactly how this near-beatific effect was accomplished, but it remains magical and breathtaking.
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Beatific blonde Karolina (Virginia Gardner) is the determinedly blissed-out face of her parents' "church" (read: cult).
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Kate has always turned heads and inspired headlines with her beatific, too-perfect-to-be-true constitution.
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This terrific show presents works carved from wood representing Buddhist deities, some wrathful, others exuding beatific serenity.
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As the series advanced, the more menacing forms of the earliest paintings gave way to beatific images.
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I realized I just had the strangest and most beatific night of sleep I can remember ever having.
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Their bulging little eyes compliment a broad snout and a wide mouth, perpetually bent into a beatific smile.
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So accustomed are we to yarns of demonic possession that the beatific equivalent comes as quite a shock.
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And Jerry, a beatific senior lab mix, takes a glucosamine tablet ($9.99 per bottle) with each morning meal.
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Jeanne posed with Bela, but the beatific newspaper photos of mother and child masked a more complicated truth.
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The Austrians are black-clad figures out of a Victorian gothic chiller; the Swiss tend toward beatific white.
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An odd clock with psychedelic rays radiating from a beatific image of Ho's face (pictured) is common in Vietnam.
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Maybe it was his response, the beatific expression on his face, eyes almost closed, head tilted toward her shoulder.
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Cartier, Piaget, Rolex — inside, they're beatific, and there are guards at the doors to ensure they remain that way.
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Behind them, men waded into the frigid pool and turned in circles with beatific grins, arms outstretched, like polar bears.
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They range from North Korea to smog to a new fad for wearing lapel badges bearing Mr Xi's beatific visage.
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He emerged an unchanged man, totally committed to the beatific vision granted to him that day in upstate New York.
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But she was in such a state of utter and beatific happiness that she was willing to agree to anything.
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The beatific smile, the warm hugs and the trademark folkloric dress project the reassuring humility of a big but benign country.
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Judaism does not really traffic in the beatific and the epiphanic; there is no moment of "surrender," to use Brooks's term.
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The image is languorous and impish: Ms. Lang leans her head back onto Ms. Crawford's breasts, eyes closed, her smile beatific.
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Because of Buddhism's pacifist image — swirls of calming incense and beatific smiles — the faith is not often associated with sectarian aggression.
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Ricky Wittle, who plays Shadow, wears a beatific smile as he speaks; it's supposed to be the emotional climax of the series.
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Those who got close enough to Mr Qadri's garlanded corpse this week reported a face with the beatific glow of a martyr.
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Whenever she appeared onscreen — with her long "Alice in Wonderland" blond hair and beatific glow — the sun came out and birds sang.
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Seeger's poems, with their innocence and their beatific tone, remind us "the war to end all wars" was a story of descent.
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Prager bounced her beatific year-old son, Francis, on one hip while gaffers and grips arranged the lighting for the next shot.
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Gaillardet kept his eye on Latour, who wore an expression of beatific delight, to make sure he was understanding the technical details.
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We don't want to think about these kinds of women existing in a bodily sense — they are beatific peons of potential motherhood!
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His 15th-century painting "Annunciation," depicting Mary visited by an angel, is a masterwork of powerful color, exquisite detail and beatific light.
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"I do scold them," she says gently, though it's hard to imagine the soft-spoken, beatific Ms. Kondo ever raising her voice.
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But no matter; the missive, accompanied by a beatific photo of the couple and their daughter, has been "liked" over 1.6 million times.
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Over in the corner, there's a different sort of dry good: Chip and Jo prayer candles, their illustrated faces surrounded by a beatific glow.
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Then, in a beatific, transcendent moment, she thanks Brünnhilde for helping her escape to safety so she can give birth to the young hero.
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A recently unearthed series of family photos of the three — Leo is an only child — portray their beatific and bohemian existence in 1975 Los Angeles.
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You remember Trolls — not the rude lurkers online writing nasty remarks, but those little toys with round tummies, beatific expressions and abundant hair shooting upward.
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"Angel Portrait" portrays in minute particulars a swarm of long-legged naked yellow women surrounded by their beatific winged-sisters who appear to take flight.
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Deification began with beatific portraits and photographs of the king, which still now hang everywhere, from government offices to even the houses of the smallest villages.
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Gregory Itzin's Charles Logan on "24" could well be the most diabolical of chief executives, masterminding the plot to kill off the beatific former President Palmer.
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She was no stranger to romantic disappointment herself but had recently met the love of her life, quickly adopting the beatific optimism of the well paired.
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Consider his "Madonna at the Fountain," in which the beatific Mary hovers in three dimensions before a brocaded carpet, held aloft by two rainbow-winged angels.
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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.
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A woman near me held her phone, zooming in and out on a photo she had taken of Jennifer Lopez's beatific face on the red carpet, sighing rhythmically.
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It was balmy, blissful, beatific brilliant balearic that soothed many a hangover and would have sounded great at a barbecue if we'd gone to any barbecues last year.
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Fini's kinship with Genet led to two oil portraits of the writer, one of which is featured here, transforming the ex-con outlaw into a beatific Catholic saint.
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This exhibition, organized by the art historian Ive Covaci and Adriana Proser, the museum's curator of traditional Asian art, offers, along with wrathful deities, numerous figures exuding beatific serenity.
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For those so inclined (like me), this was nutritive music, sometimes raucous and driving, sometimes atmospheric, meditative, and beatific, and all shades in between; sometimes brooding and sometimes jubilant.
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A day-old lamb leaping behind its mama in the mild, dappled light of springtime is about as close to beatific as anything you will see in this life.
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Those who know Haaland, though, those who have tracked his career from its beginnings in Norway, say that he possesses a rare calm, a sort of beatific single-mindedness.
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In part because of Casals's moral force as a foe of Fascism and nuclear arms, the cello took on an oracular accent, an aura at once beatific and brooding.
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No matter how many times the film reuses the punchline of cutting from beatific Americana to a shot of a nuclear blast vaporizing everything before it, it never gets old.
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But Ms. Bellugi is a real find; she inhabits her character, who, even as she hides her secrets, is so genuinely beatific that you can hear it in her breathing.
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In his TV series, he's indulged his squishy side, a little in "Extras," and a lot in the maudlin "Derek," in which he played a beatific, childlike nursing-home worker.
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It's immediately clear that this sort of beatific, self-possessed youngster isn't long for this world, yet Marber delivers a performance that skirts any Dickensian flourishes and is simply charming.
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But burdened with ideas of reincarnation and Christian mythos, the supposedly swooning love triangle among Luce and her beatific beaus lacks any of the organic interaction that could produce chemistry.
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McConaughey has always been at his best when he decides to be instead of do, in roles radiating such beatific relaxation that the audience is liable to cop a contact high.
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About how hard it was being trapped between "two worlds" and what a drag it was having to reconcile your leftist leanings with the beatific Tory example of your in-laws.
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It was over and there was Sane on the turnbuckle, what looked to be real tears in her eyes and a beatific smile on her face as the cheers rained down.
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His voice is soft and deliberate, and he tries to look beatific, which must be harder than it sounds because most of the time he ends up seeming mildly brain-damaged.
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This is what he said to Greil Marcus about them: They're floating in the air, part of this suspended sphere, and they've got these beatific looks on their faces, they're in anguish.
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Gracing the street-facing facade of one of the school buildings, Fairey's mural applies his signature graphic style to an adaptation of a 1969 photo of a beatific Angelou by Chester Higgins.
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A beatific Lambert introduced what she called a "country punk" song, "Locomotive;" it came with a driving beat that hearkened back to "Kerosene" and "Gunpowder and Lead" (both of which she also performed).
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Compare the Instagram to Jan Frans Eliaerts's tumbling bouquet: In her curves, her wimple, and her beatific face, Beyoncé is set against a bright blue sky like a late medieval or Renaissance Madonna.
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His face, which has a boyish enthusiasm when he's excited, turns profoundly focused when he considers the business aspect of things; in unguarded moments he sometimes looks as beatific as a Dostoyevsky character.
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As the final out settled into the glove of Cleon Jones in left field at Shea Stadium, Charles raced toward the mound and leapt in the air, a beatific smile on his face.
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Seeing Laura without Shadow's love blinders is a startling shot of reality, especially once Browning makes it clear that Laura wasn't a beatific angel but a frustrated woman constantly simmering with antsy resentment.
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Baby Yoda hype has produced beatific meme-collection posts showcasing how many adherents would die for the li'l green cherub, speculations about what role Baby Yoda will play in The Mandalorian, and beyond.
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There was a bit of dancing, all those naked people, and a beatific twink playing a theremin, but it was all, for the most part, an exciting, deliberately scandalous encasement for Blackmore's speech.
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Some of the works in this series are near-beatific (but also humorous and absurd) especially those that Katchadourian calls "High Altitude Spirit Photography," alluding to 19-century spirit photography and esoteric spiritualism.
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If pregnancy is one of the most natural states a woman can be in, Demi's artfully naked bump was perfect: beatific and "effortless" (light makeup, adorned with meteor-sized diamonds — what a perfect parallel).
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If you want four tracks worth of scurrying, baroque, mutated, wonky, blissed out, baleful, beatific, grime-cum-R&B-cum-club-music-cum-ambient-cum-whatever-the-fuck-this-is then you're in luck.
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Practically luminous with beatific yet biting California wisdom (courtesy of a transformative performance by Maura Tierney, who's been asked to inhabit so many versions of the same character), Helen lays down some straight talk.
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You will have seen it, almost certainly: the one with Ibrahimovic, in profile, dressed in an angel's robes and arm wrestling — a look of beatific concentration on his face — with a sinew-straining devil.
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We only see him twice: Applauding her and her NASA colleagues when the pastor announces their achievements to the congregation, and later, holding her closely at a house party, a beatific smile on his face.
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Sanders has a reputation for being as beatific as a snapping turtle, but today he was happy(ish) to be discussing the topic that he and DeMoro had succeeded in crowbarring into the national debate.
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Sanders has a reputation for being as beatific as a snapping turtle, but today he was happy(ish) to be discussing the topic that he and DeMoro had succeeded in crowbarring into the national debate.
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We all already knew Beyoncé was a beatific musical vision from above, but tonight on the MTV VMA white carpet, the Queen officially confirmed her angel on earth status wearing her very own set of wings.
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Every time we built Manning up as an icon — with every like, every meme, every beatific tweet about how she could do no wrong — we ensured that her inevitable fall would be that much more painful.
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The scale, copper backings, and beatific expressions of the subjects give these works the feel of Russian Orthodox iconography; the unseen focus of attention that informs each of the men's expression is each of their wives.
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A standard, four-piece rock group (guitar, bass, keyboards, drums) was producing music unlike anything I had ever heard: slow, patient, minimalist, with crescendos and raucous flourishes; enchanting, often beatific, but with somber and dark passages.
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The video for "Famous," released last month, features a Swift look-alike, along with other celebrity look-alikes, topless in bed with Mr. West and Ms. Kardashian West, an eyebrow-raising jolt of beatific pop-art erotica.
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His most striking gift is to transmute the beatific wails of ethio-pop godheads, Mahmoud Ahmed, Tilahun Gessesse, and Aster Aweke, into something that can command the void at the permanent midnight of the Coachella main stage.
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There was Ms. Lipton — seemingly untouched by time, with the same long, silky blond hair, slim figure, radiant skin and air of vulnerability — as Norma Jennings, the unhappily married but beatific owner of the Double R Diner.
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One at a time, we went into the front room to be smudged with sage on the wrestling mats by a woman in her sixties with the silver hair and beatific smile of a Latina Mrs. Claus.
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Facing the opera, above the Café de Paris, is a building-cum-billboard: a four-story likeness of Will Smith, beatific blankness in lotus repose, levitating in a stylish, saffron-colored puffy coat beneath a light bulb.
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True to her own ethos, Gopnik goes light on prescriptions for individual parents, though some of them may wonder what exactly it looks like to be the beatific "gardener" of a 6-year-old shrieking for iPhone time.
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Gifted not just with a razor but also with a beatific spirit, Sheppey finds his life transformed when he wins a sizable sum in the Irish lottery, thereby granting him the ability to transform the lives of others.
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The ancient rites and the perpetual sunshine in Pelle's remote enclave may be disorientating, but the white-robed tribespeople are warm and beatific, and the psychotropic mushrooms they hand out turn the meadows into rippling oceans of wild flowers.
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Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, is playing some parlor game to see how far she can travel from reality, how creatively she can gin up distractions and how subtle an expression — by turns bemused and beatific — she can wear.
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Around the perimeter of the gallery photographs show the exterior of the home where the Virgin supposedly appeared; visitors can be seen inside pressing their hands against the glass, sometimes sandwiching the open window between their palms and their beatific faces.
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To illustrate the dilemma another way: She sang both female leads in early concerts and demos of "Hamilton," but she's never appeared in the musical, perhaps because it's equally easy to imagine her as either beatific Eliza or spiny Angelica.
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In the 10 years since the album's release, no one's come close to nailing the beatific radiance that Lennox captured on wax—so it's amusing to hear Lennox explain that the record's signature sound was partially indebted to a customs mishap.
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Opening on the 4th of July, 1980, the very same day as the Cafe Del Mar coincidentally, it offers a kind of Ibizan idyll, a beatific Balearicness that's the very best of what this series of mystic and mythical islands have to offer.
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The lead single, "Optimistic," features a guest spot from Brandy, singing of faith and self-belief over a beatific bed of voices, even more sumptuous than her typical backing chorus (on standbys like "I Wanna Be Down," say, or "Almost Doesn't Count").
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In A Living Chance: Storytelling to End Life Without Parole by Adrienne Skye Roberts, a pedestal offers a selection of beatific portraits of women of color; the backs of the postcards feature stories in the women's own words about their prison experiences.
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As she begins the aria, "As with rosy steps the morn," an expression of complete faith in the Savior, this incomparable artist, whose face was as expressive as her voice, covers her eyes with her hands, a beatific gesture that matches her tender singing.
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His exit from the public stage has been less beatific than his exit from the Soviet Union in 1986, when he was practically sainted among Jews, after applying in vain for emigration to escape persecution and then serving nine years in labor camps and prisons.
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The cover of Wallach's second novel (after the best-selling "We All Looked Up") looks like a still from a lost Wes Anderson movie: A wary teenage boy stares at a beatific, tinsel-haired woman of indeterminate age in the lobby of a once-grand hotel.
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A prophet can be played as a beatific ascetic, but this Samuel is the polar opposite: wild-eyed and somewhat scary, the kind of fellow who when he sits down next to you at a bar causes you to finish your drink in a gulp and leave.
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The last decade of indie culture has seen plenty of trend-chasing, but it's important to note that this aforementioned symmetry seems totally incidental—Hynes has always come across as someone riding his own wavelength, and that extends to Freetown Sound, Blood Orange's brilliant, beatific third full-length.
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Her character was especially dumb because she was so good, a purely beatific angel who wanted hugs, friends, and ended up coming across at least a little like the infamous Eugene, whose gimmick was that of a mentally handicapped man who became a wrestling savant when given the chance.
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First off, we do know a little bit about Angela in season 2, as HBO teases that she will be "a host whose beatific face welcomed guests to Westworld for decades … Angela will prove to be one of the last faces many guests will ever see," Entertainment Weekly writes.
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Here, and consistently elsewhere during the diagrammatic, fetishized phase covered in the exhibition, Fernandez disregards the beatific (if banal) blooming mood typically associated with sexual imagery by painting in a gritty, dark, and oily metallic palette that distances his work from the tropical chromaticism often associated with his native Cuba.
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When I asked Afrovivalist, after a sadly fruitless early morning attempt at turkey hunting in the woods, why she was a prepper, a beatific smile crossed her face and she said it gave her a sense of peace to know that she would be OK if it all went to hell.
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This is the Knightley we deserve—iconoclastic, the type of figure who can transfix an entire generation of fin de siècle Parisian women into getting the same haircut, the type of figure who can readily portray the one woman who so prolifically captured the city of lights in her beatific scrawl.
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The festival returns to New York City on Thursday and Friday with events celebrating the Dude, "a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker" played by Jeff Bridges, and the rest of the cast (including David Huddleston, who played the title role opposite Mr. Bridges and died one year ago this week).
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Enchantment plays no small role in the lives of these characters, and their trials of faith — "I'm a materialist and I don't even believe in my own mother, but it's the truth, those people are cursed," a principal says of his pupils — mirror the state of the cathedral, a beatific failure.
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Gnarly, ornate, and challenging, it's light years away from the beatific folk that he made his name on back in the late 2000s—but watching him evolve as an artist has been nourishing, and anyone with a hunger for music to sink his or her teeth into will find plenty to admire.
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It was the sort of match you want to see once a quarter: Braun Strowman was buried by a cascade of metal chairs falling from the sky before being crushed by a garbage truck, Angle mostly looked ecstatic to be supporting two men 20 years his junior in beatific wrestle dad fashion, and extended beatdowns were the rule.
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Daniel is drawn toward the priesthood, but his criminal record prevents him from being accepted to the seminary; when he's released on parole and directed to work at a sawmill in rural Poland, it's unclear which side of his psyche will win: the devil on his shoulder or the more beatific creature on the other side.
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The Weeknd's Daft Punk collaboration "I Feel It Coming" was one of the best singles from last year, a lovely and beatific slice of slow-pop that radiates with nostalgia and life—but on the Grammys stage, the Weeknd's Abel Tesfaye seemed bolted to the floor, lacking any sort of energy as the fully-helmeted Daft Punk tweaked and twisted knobs behind him.
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The images of past protests that have captivated the world — the unnamed man standing in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square; a serene Gandhi, gaunt and hunched over during a hunger strike; Rosa Parks staring out the window of a bus in Montgomery — tend to exhibit calm, near-beatific and often solitary determination in the face of chaos and hardship.
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But over two days of extended interviews that took place in his rented Amangani Resort home, on long walks through Jackson, and in lengthy car rides spanning eastern Idaho to Yellowstone National Park — edited excerpts from which are included below — Kanye was calm, measured, verging on beatific, and also self-aware and willing to reckon with the challenges he'd created for himself.
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It was below ground, and as we approached the door that would take us down to it, I noticed a neighboring storefront, an antiquarian shop, its windows crowded with icons—Cyril and Methodius, a beatific Mary, St. George on horseback hooking the dragon through the mouth—as well as Nazi paraphernalia, watches and billfolds and flasks all stamped with a broken cross.
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One of the new wave of radio stations that operates exclusively online, the variety in its schedule is a tribute to the diversity of its home city - one minute you might be locked to 19-year-old Woolwich native Jetsss smashing things up with one of her trap and grime sets, the next it might be beatific soca or riotous dancehall courtesy of Hipsters Don't Dance.
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" In the United States, this spectacular ingratitude is lamentably bipartisan, he says, shared by anti-establishmentarians on both sides who refuse to see the light: "Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become secular religions, providing people with a community of like-minded brethren, a catechism of sacred beliefs, a well-populated demonology and a beatific confidence in the righteousness of their cause.
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With the sun dipping below a gray and orange horizon, and with subtle colors reflected on a glassy sea, Gallace's near-beatific "September Sunset" (2008) is exactly the kind of scene Lane favored, for instance in "Brace's Rock" (9), in which part of a jutting rock is illuminated orange by the sun while smooth water in a quiet cove (there is also the rotting hull of a wrecked boat on the beach) reflects both sky and rock.
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As for the ingrate blue jay inherently dapper dappled in Brooks Brothers plumage whose wing wicked resplendent lit in a freak fir fire involving one rosy-cheeked waddling toddler two schnockered green parents & the tiniest sparkler in the world as for that guy who pompous in flight one 4th of July dove nose first at a beatific swallow as if there in the unfettered night existed some backwoods design shortcut to heaven feathered leprechaun leading to a landfill of blinding gold bullion life- changing light chased & chastened as a sin committed to awaken misplaced repentance As for consequence best not to ask about the jay's final flight eight-foot dumb luck grace a glide straight into the man- made lake where the ingrate treaded water like an easy metaphor unburdened as he was wing fired heir to an airless air breezy lean that screamed walking desire Marcus Wicker's most recent collection is Silencer.
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