Celebrity is very corrosive of beatitude, so are benzedrine and heroin. |
For the scholastic this is of course a supernatural end, a life of grace in this world and beatitude in the next. |
As the boon-giving guru gives the mantra in contentment and beatitude, try to please him with devotion, wealth, your very life. |
It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude, in which one maintains one's full mental alertness and acuity. |
But it may be punished after death by a shorter or longer exclusion from that beatitude. |
There was a pang in his beatitude, a painful moment of generous distress when biffy came up to congratulate him. |