beatifically

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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

Minutes after Walker and her Gospel Redeemers, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson appears, looking as beatifically beatnik as he’d ever get.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2021

Nearly 4 percent of dead Star Wars characters return from the grave in some form or another, if only to smile beatifically at a bunch of Ewoks singing “Yub Nub.”

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2019

The vice-president, Mike Pence, standing a short distance behind, smiled beatifically.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2019

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