(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.
Bride
Definition:
(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
(n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
(v. t.) To make a bride of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) I am staying here [in an abusive marriage] to protect them’.” Mifumi estimates that 68% of women in Uganda have faced some form of domestic violence, and the NGO says the bride price remains the biggest contributor to these cases.
(4) The original 1991 Father of the Bride was based on the 1950 film of the same name, while 1995's Father of the Bride II was loosely based on 1951's Father's Little Dividend, a sequel to the earlier movie.
(5) I went to a screening for real-life brides, women who I cannot describe as my kind of women – really nice and all that, but fancy wanting to get married.
(6) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
(7) Even though the families have very little money, they save what money they have to cut their daughters, because otherwise they will not get a bride price from the future husband," Dirie said.
(8) So, the specific IgE and IgG4 antibodies to soybean may be play the role of "the bride" between specific IgE antibody group and specific IgG4 antibody group of food allergens.
(9) Formal analysis of the time series showed upward trends in the proportions of brides "at risk" in the 16-17 age groups, and in the proportions of children "at risk" born to brides in the 16 to 22 age range.
(10) For this reason, I thought, of all the brides, she would be my kind of bride (I don't know why: it's not like I have any piercings).
(11) The bride answers: “Well, monthly instalments are only for objects, so if you expect monthly instalments from me, that means your son is an object I can use as I wish.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A film from the Beti Padhao, Beti Badhao initiative In the second video, a bride is about to go for a ride on a scooter with her husband.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) Meanwhile, we have this second-tier ITV offering in which a hen weekend or wedding party has been infiltrated by an actor playing an “over the top” character who the bride insists is a long lost-friend or family member.
(14) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(15) Alison, meanwhile, is a prime example of what Gilbert describes as someone freed from “the Tyranny of the Bride”: having done it once, and particularly having had a child, she feels no overwhelming need to do it again.
(16) New world celebrity will meet old world monarchy on Friday as Prince William and his bride land in California to kick off a three-day visit to America that has made the royal pair the hottest couple in Hollywood.
(17) But with seven out of 10 titles losing sales – Easy Living, GQ, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Glamour, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller – Condé Nast's results risk looking more bridesmaid than bride.
(18) "There are different forms of child marriage but all have one common point: the girl doesn't have a voice," Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe, Africa regional officer for the advocacy group Girls Not Brides , said.
(19) A crossing at Quneitra, operated by the UN, allows the movement of UN personnel, truckloads of apples, a few Druze students and the occasional Syrian bride in white.
(20) Bride said: "In North America, we have witnessed the devastating effect the Walmart model has had on small business, suppliers and communities."