(1) But I'm sure I could get someone to cover them up with the psychiatric equivalent of even bigger tattoos, perhaps in the shape of lotus flowers or a mosaic of beatific smiles.
(2) Part of the problem lies in our beatific tolerance of our own grandparents.
(3) Gustave's beatific smile and genteel demeanour work harmoniously with the purple hotel uniforms (Anderson does love a man in uniform).
(4) Pictures dance through my head the week before: of me, laughing chummily with my seat neighbour, Julianne Moore, as we watch Neil Patrick Harris’s opening number; of me, being caught on the world’s TV cameras applauding tearfully but also beatifically during the montage of people who died this year; of me, patting Eddie Redmayne’s arm with almost maternal pride as he gets up to collect his Oscar, and of him pretending to know who I am and thanking me profusely, because those are the kind of manners I imagine young chaps are taught at Eton.
(5) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
(6) They have energy but the beatification of Jeremy Corbyn is not enough to generate a coherent philosophy.
(7) Furthermore, while many Latin Americans and US Latinos are applauding the pope for promoting the beatification of Archbishop Óscar Romero – a champion of liberation theology who was killed in 1980 by a death squad in El Salvador – just as many are condemning him for canonizing 18 th Spanish missionary Junípero Serra , whose conversion of Native Americans in California was marred by violence and death.
(8) We learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are,” he said beatifically.
(9) Here though Miliband played a quiet blinder for much of the evening, adopting an oddly serene, beatifically long-suffering manner, like a sad, wise dying aunt offering a final benediction.
(10) And I get it: pictures of beatific celebrities breastfeeding their adorable children evoke ideas about “natural” motherhood and seek to end the shame that still exists around public breastfeeding.
(11) May took her beatification in her stride, modestly pointing out this was far from the first time she had been so elevated.
(12) 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.
(13) A woman worthy of beatification and through whose devotion and duty Charles has been transformed into a semi-functioning human being.
(14) He now professes a hatred for modern war, but also scorns “beatific pacifism”, and refuses to express remorse for his own violent past.
(15) Then I remembered the impact Amour had on me – a tribute to the beatific grace of its actors and to their physical and moral courage, yet also to Haneke's unsparing quest for the truth about the way we live and die.
(16) When the passengers and a group of age-matched controls sat the test the first time, the computer flashed up a series of neutral words, such as "upholstery", "beatification" and "demographics" with common emotionally charged words interspersed, such as "disaster", "blood" and "horror".
(17) Earth Day, marked annually by Google with one of its famous doodles, has been given a beatific and celebratory treatment by the internet giant today.
(18) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.
(19) The response was a shrug, a beatific smile and: "Of course we can – and it will probably be better this time."
(20) Throughout proceedings, Benn smiled beatifically as if he were unaware he was the cause of the reshuffle logjam, occasionally leaning across his leader to share his jovial pensées with Chris Bryant and Rosie Winterton, just to politely remind Corbyn who is boss.
Benign
Definition:
(a.) Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
(a.) Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(3) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(4) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(5) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
(6) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(7) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.
(8) HCT were classified by light microscopy as benign (n = 22), intermediate (n = 30), and malignant (n = 13).
(9) Four cases of benign lymphoid hyperplasia (BLH) of the duodenal bulb are reported.
(10) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
(11) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(12) Gangliogliomas are rare benign tumors of the central nervous system containing neoplastic ganglion and low grade glial cells.
(13) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
(14) No malignant tumour failed to be diagnosed (100% reliable), the anatomopathological examination of specimens in benign conditions was never wrong (100% reliable).
(15) Positive staining was present in cells in almost all of the benign and fibro-histiocytic lesions but was reduced in the malignant group.
(16) In this paper, 5 patients with benign tumor (3 tubular adenoma, 1 leiomyoma and 1 fibroma) and 35 pseudotumor (26 cholesterol polyps and 9 inflammatory polyps) of the gallbladder are presented.
(17) Because of the small number of cases (7), however, we are not able to state whether it is possible to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in all cases.
(18) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.
(19) However, despite extreme neutropenia, infection is rare in chronic benign neutropenia patients.
(20) In contrast, there was only a 5% incidence of malignant neoplasia and a 29% incidence of benign neoplasia in the respiratory region.