beatifically

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Ten minutes later, she showed up wearing a black KN95 mask and bearing a chubby-cheeked, 6-month-old baby who stared at me beatifically from her carrier.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

Around the basin curve again, not far from where Busse was sprawling, a young woman in a striking, long pink flowered kimono smiled beatifically, an antidote to lingering pandemic sadness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

This opening chapter accompanies Buster through a series of equally gory and pointless Wild West shootouts, culminating in a comical magic-realist moment in which a deceased character can be seen ascending beatifically to another plane.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2018

An oversize image of Big Pun, made just a few blocks away in 1999, his face framed beatifically through a car sunroof, fills the gallery’s street-facing window.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2018

Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell