(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.
Exemplary
Definition:
(a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
(a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
(a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
(n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(2) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
(3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
(4) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
(5) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
(6) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
(7) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
(8) "[The CQC inspectors] saw some exemplary care, but some hospitals were not even getting the basics right.
(9) Her plan was angrily rejected by the food and drink industry, which claimed an exemplary code already existed that had been rigidly followed by the industry.
(10) These states were selected for the purpose of illustrating two different approaches and not necessarily for the presentation of exemplary evaluation practices.
(11) Unstable angina pectoris, a particular form of acute coronary heart disease is described in two exemplary cases.
(12) The intellectual elegance of her work – and its exemplary quality as an Anthropocene-aware artefact – lies in its subtle tracing of the technological and imperial histories involved in a single extinction event and its residue.
(13) Spotlight is more akin Argo , Ben Affleck’s big winner in 2013: it takes a conventional approach to telling a compelling true story, with assured direction and exemplary performances from its ensemble cast.
(14) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
(15) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
(16) Sharon Allen, chief executive of Skills for Care, said the academy was doing “exemplary work” and that the award was “well-deserved”.
(17) This failure of supportive, exemplary democratic leadership is even more apparent in Washington, where the longer Barack Obama has remained in office, held hostage by a hostile Congress, the more myopic, seemingly, has become his global strategic vision.
(18) Petrolheads should have been a cast-iron hit – the logic behind it was exemplary: people love Have I Got News For You, people love Top Gear, Neil Morrissey is a beloved comic actor.
(19) At the Economist, we have always been supportive of the idea that anything that could be done to clean up Britain's libel laws[, should be done] … the idea of exemplary damages for people who are outside the system I find very difficult," he said.
(20) The investigators believe that collaboration, caring, and communication are the essence of exemplary health care.