She is one of the finest film actors of this or any era, with the most Oscar nominations, and the most beatific smile.
I give the name violence to a noble boldness that hankers for danger, and I have seen it in many of the pimps and thieves I have worked with, men whose authority and beatific treachery bent me to their will.
For a microsecond I saw this beatific, angelic creature and assumed it was my reflection.
The half hour of total fear that I experienced allowed me to spend the rest of the week in a state of beatific thankfulness for the wonders of life.
In part, this caution is an admission that things are not going well.Relations between the two governing parties have soured since the beatific early months of the coalition.
During his beatific, inaugural press conference with David Cameron last May all jokes and hopes for a "new politics" in the Downing Street garden Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy to the Conservative prime minister, warned that the sun would not always shine on their new coalition.
Mr Blair's beatific triumph in 1997, when his party won a majority of 179, was exceptional in recent times; voters usually elect a government reluctantly.A September poll of more than 33,000 voters across 238 marginal constituencies by PoliticsHome, a website now partly owned by Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party's deputy chairman, forecast a Tory majority of 70 seats.
Lillian Ross sprinkles an early Miss America pageant with the gentle scorn it deserves—"Ah am smilin', Mama," says an indefatigably beatific Miss Florida while the bedraggled Miss New York State worries that she does not know how to display her talents.
One cyber-zealot describes the grimace on his face, in pictures issued by the Saudi authorities, as a beatific smile, a sign of holiness.The initiative and higher morale has passed, for the moment, to the Saudi authorities.
Margaret Thatcher is the only other recent prime minister who could match Mr Blair's command of the striving classes.Senior Tories are beguiled by May 1st 1997, the day of Mr Blair's beatific entry into power.
A cartoonish man on a horse gazes at the viewer, melancholic, vulnerable and isolated on a stage; a train rounds a bend of reverberating curves and enters a mysteriously dark tunnel; arches are arranged in a portentous grid; a Madonna looms tall, beatific and symmetrical, like a chess queen.
