| The Captain is the benevolent-yet-stern sheriff of this here town and Madame La is his beatific, beautiful wife. |
| As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast. |
| The smile that spread across Nicholas' face was beatific, full of happiness and relief. |
| Luke, from Harper's, wore a beatific smile as the room trembled from the gateway's power. |
| His protagonists are poignantly human, but Frears avoids the temptation of turning them into beatific Christ figures or walking billboards. |
| A lethargic Blaine, sporting a new bushy beard and matted hair, rewarded them with weak waves and beatific smiles. |
