How To Use Blissful In A Sentence

This blissfully uncrowded park, where visitor numbers are deliberately restricted, is worth the small entry fee a hundred times over for its beaches alone.
The couple beside us were toasting the fact of just being alive on so blissful a night.
Tonight is blissfully planless, and will likely feature sorting through stories with Adam and catching up on the TiVo stuff. Odin's Day
The same can be said for a blissfully simple plate of roasted free-range chicken: crisp and immaculate of crust, escorted by even crisper roasted potatoes and flavored with garlic and lemon.
Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom. Best of 2009

Will tried to conjure up their blissful months together but before long he spiralled back down again. Times, Sunday Times
They recently changed my office day start time too from the blissful 8.50 to 8.30.
Their articles are researched, well written and blissfully short.
She saw a school of orange and yellow fish swim past her; Joanna felt elated and blissful.
And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
The Symphony consists of only three movements - a pathetic Allegro in D minor, a highly original Scherzo in the same key, and a blissful Adagio in E major.
It all sounds rather blissful in a contented, domestic way that would have seemed unimaginable some years ago.
We're in our 20s and have a blissful marriage. The Sun
It's hard to resist the lucious, velvety chocolate cascading down in a stream of utter blissful heaven.
At a gloriously air-conditioned shop halfway up the main drag, I could have happily browsed for hours, because it was so blissfully cool.
He felt like he was drowning in them… dying happily in the blissful sea of her soul.
The couple married in 1964 and a life of blissful domesticity beckoned. Times, Sunday Times
They create a blissful sense of quietness, pure melodic pop pleasure.
It's a blissful moment of abandon. Times, Sunday Times
Moving the ball with briskness, thus resulting in open jumpers from 15 to 20 feet for Celtic distance shooters Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson and, of course, Larry Bird, Boston blissfully bombed away from long-range. One Season
But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
Alexander wakes with a start, gives a visitor a perplexed, somewhat bleary stare, then melts blissfully back into slumber.
(Rick Warren certainly had an agenda on Saturday at CamelbackSaddleback, but he seemed more interested in eliciting information from the candidates than the too-knowing 'pros' and -- blissfully -- he seemed entirely uninterested in playing gotcha.) Debate Perps - Swampland - TIME.com
blissful young lovers
But changing the culture at a big company takes time, and all shouting "FAIL!" accomplishes is to make that clueful person (who actually follows their presence in social media) feel bad, while all their coworkers continue on, blissfully unaware of your criticism. The End of Fail - Anil Dash
It all sounds rather blissful in a contented, domestic way that would have seemed unimaginable some years ago.
Nobody had ever made him feel so happy before, and he prayed that the blissful feeling would never end.
In setting the scene for my post I would love to recount a tale of blissful youth, a text-book joyride throughout early adulthood culminating in a fulfilled maturity.
I'm a forty-one-year old metropolitan male, blissfully and undeservedly attached to a very charming woman, but I can well remember what it is like to be a thirty something single male.
They are also blissfully unaware that, to serious thinkers, they come across as the kids we hated in high school.
At midnight, like most New Yorkers, I was far from the freezing cold of the street, blissfully free to drink as much as I liked.
I was blissfully unaware of the bomb blasts until I got into office this morning.
The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
There are no Gods, no grand plans, no celestial architects, no blissful after-lives and no eternal damnation.
Ringo has kept a home in LA since the mid-Seventies, luxuriating in the climate, the blissfully opulent lifestyle, and the presence of scores of fellow musicians.
That slowly began to fade away as the aesthetician's gentle hands lulled me into blissful sleep during my facial.
Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Ulysses
Blissfully unaware that I had no obligation to sign any agreement, I put down a ten-pound deposit the same afternoon.
He lay beside me blissfully asleep, with drool steadily dripping from his mouth.
She dipped into her purse and pulled out ten dollars; she was blissful and her boyfriend was in shock.
The kid with the blissful smile had grown into this tall, handsome, blonde ladykiller and he'd duded himself up in the coolest of new rags, including one of those trendy sport coats with sleeves you could roll up.
This is displayed in their ability to play slow, blissful songs and step back from the full onslaught of their upbeat material.
The children seem to be happy at the centre, blissfully unconscious of their condition.
All of this was blissful time out from the routine drudgery.
Her face was withered from long years of struggle yet lightened with blissfulness from so many happy times.
It was sweet and tangy and gooey - a blissful companion of flavours and textures.
If the second book took place in the same world but dealt with a different hero/heroine, with March and Jax hanging around in the background being stagnantly blissful, it would be an SFR. Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » A question for the ages
The kid with the blissful smile had grown into this tall, handsome, blonde ladykiller and he'd duded himself up in the coolest of new rags, including one of those trendy sport coats with sleeves you could roll up.
Suddenly life, which had up until a minute ago seemed blissful and full of promise, has now become a thing of dread.
As an experience to blot out the horror of her discovery on Brynteg it had been blissfully successful.
Sunset at the end of a blissfully hot summer's day in London would prompt a moment of nostalgic longing in the most hardened of cynics. Times, Sunday Times
Those newlyweds were still blissfully unaware blushes and butterflies turn into ritual and routine. Christianity Today
But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature. Must Reading for Christmas
Other parents may find the blissful closeness of the nursing year painfully disrupted by the ensuing battle of wills. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
The Indian savages," said Margrave, sullenly, "have not a health as perfect as mine, and in what you call vitality -- the blissful consciousness of life -- they are as sticks and stones compared to me. A Strange Story — Volume 02
It sinks in quickly and is blissfully unscented. Times, Sunday Times
I am somewhat confused by your blissful disregard of the old-established legal principle of an accused being innocent unless proven guilty.
I also remember what these dorks said during those ever-so ‘blissful months’ and it wasn't exactly bliss.
Is wedded bliss not quite so blissful any more? Times, Sunday Times
Life is sweet, and when rejection or responsibility threaten to disrupt my blissful state, I can roll with the punches.
August has passed and places that just a fortnight previously were overpriced and overcrowded are now blissfully deserted. Times, Sunday Times
The implants of piety, they are diabetically sweet, so blissfully sugary that you get a deific rush. Times, Sunday Times
Service is slick, blues and jazz play quietly in the background and the wicker chairs are blissfully comfortable. Times, Sunday Times
Michael, who had followed in at her invitation, betrayed a ridiculously swollen nose as he sniffed noses with Jerry, wagged his bobtail to Harley in greeting, and was greeted in turn with a blissful hand laid on his head. CHAPTER XXXVI
Yesterday I was blow-drying my hair and felt a mysterious tug; I looked down to see her blissfully munching away.
As explained by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Krishna has His eternal, blissful form that is full of knowledge, and all Vaishnava acharyas accept this.
Epicurus had a mundane philosophy yet despite suffering intense pain of the intestines, he enjoyed a blissful last day on earth.
Organised by the hotel s massage therapist Sally Miller, the weekend promises to be a blissful experience.
The singer seemed blissfully unaware as he performed with the two female singers in his band. The Sun
Butternut-squash tortellini flecked with sage offers only a slightly less severe case of blissful oblivion - provided you brush off the slivers of overbearing Parmesan.
Lunch by a side stream was blissful indulgence.
Then in the third part, she seemed to totally bliss out and deliver some blissful singing.
The snoring is not constant, thank goodness, but man is it an adjustment to go from blissful silence to occasional abrupt loud ass log sawing right next to you. #52 Comic of the Day « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
Only blissful ignorance or a warped sense of humour could have seen the bloke returned three times. Times, Sunday Times
He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him. Intimate History
Meanwhile, I was going happily about my business, helping my dear wife spend her cash — which she did like a clipper-hand in port, I'm bound to say — and you would have said we were a blissful young couple, turning a blind eye to each other's infidelities and galloping in harness when we felt like it, which was frequent, for if anything she got more beddable with the passing years. Flashman In The Great Game
It was a blissful moment of freedom amid a batting performance otherwise etched with worry, uncertainty and self-doubt. Times, Sunday Times
But a handful of students remained blissfully ignorant.
For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch.
It almost seemed to the captain that the blissful moment had already arrived, such was the persuasive convincingness of McCoy. THE SEED OF McCOY
But the doting couple are blissfully unaware that their baby is actually a GOOSE.
In fact, we spent a blissful 2 hours chatting on the phone the other day.
The kiddies were all blissfully asleep in the empty hearth, curled round one another like puppies. TICKLED PINK
I snuggled into my warm bed and shut my eyes, in anticipation of a blissful sleep.
There are two blissful, muddied, prelapsarian moments when it isn't occupying your mind. Times, Sunday Times
It was really bad for a while -- close to intolerable like yours -- then it kind of tapered off, then it was off-again, on-again as now, with blissful periods of complete absence so there is something to look forward to. Posthuman Blues
Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia.
Vajazzling, for those still blissfully in the dark, is the application of glitter and crystal on to the waxed pubic area of a woman; vagina plus bedazzle, innit? How sexy are your underarms?
Anyone who wants to can, in a free society, even join a voluntary commune, like Brook Farm, or an Israeli kibbutz, and lead as blissfully communistic a life as he or she wishes.
At first, he was blissfully unaware of the conspiracy against him.
We preferred to remain in blissful ignorance of what was going on .
Later, while working as a dairymaid on a prosperous farm, in a beautiful summer, she becomes blissfully engaged to Angel Clare, a clergyman's son.
I love when bloggers censor and moderate comments - their blogs then go through a honey coated sunshiny period, blissfully free of what one commenter today is calling mockers and troublemakers. When a wanker's snark would exceed her grasp.
August has passed and places that just a fortnight previously were overpriced and overcrowded are now blissfully deserted. Times, Sunday Times
And all of them blissfully unaware that the cataclysmic events of the next ten years will change the world as they know it.
estrangedness, or listening to light, blasé commentary of wanna-be poets one-upping one another – reaching for the same blissful state of acceptance. Archive 2008-04-01
And, after three blissful days of broadband, our livebox dies on us.
I was comforted by the thought of the blissful non-dreaming sleep of death but I could no longer believe in that.
Of course, my real-life ego is still out and about in the beer-soaked homosexual fleshpots of Nottingham, and so is blissfully unaware of all this…
But the loudest devotional song may bless the students to do their best, but it will surely not provide them the blissful quietude of early morning study that can make that extra difference in their examination preparation.
It was a blissful, happy smile, and it made me feel happy in turn.
Happiness is a feeling of contentment, fulfillment, joy, blissfulness and inner peace-the most sought-after emotional wealth in life. Dr T.P.Chia
But the guests lolling on bedlike lounges and deep wicker chairs seem blissfully unaware of the drama behind the scenes at one of South Beach's hottest hotels. Keeping Chic in a Miami Storm
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
Talk about the perfect job for someone who recently got laid off or is so depressed about the state of affairs in the world that she only enjoys the blissfulness of sleep. Dr. Michael J. Breus: Getting Paid to Sleep... in Public
The alarm clock startles you out of blissful alcoholic slumber and thrusts you into a nightmare world of pain and regret.
After a blissfully deep sleep I went out early in the morning to take photographs.
The effect of the drug is to summon up people's happiest memories as a means of keeping them in a blissful state.
The woman looked blissfully content, as though she had been granted her most heartfelt desire.
There's just nothing more blissful than lying by that pool.
Similar moments of uninhibitedness dot the nine-minute ‘Do Not Be Afraid’, which ends with a blissfully defiant chorus.
Life is blissful where the sun always shines and the money keeps rolling in.
He swam on, completing his length in blissful ignorance, roared on by the crowd. Times, Sunday Times
Call me a cynic, but you're not telling me Elton John and David Furnish would be so blissfully long-term-happy together if Elton John was working as a binman. Of Lice And Men
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
They commonly intimated themselves parenthetically in the midst of some blissful talk they were having, and overcast his clear sky with retrospective ideals of conduct or presentimental plans for contingencies that might never occur. April Hopes
It is both appropriately somber and modern for the business of healing, and blissfully unordinary as a space for living and renting an apartment. Tower Bridges Divergent Styles
The cow stares at me with it's blissful brown eyes, chewing away quite happily.
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I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky.
They rode in silence, Cora's a happy and blissful silence, Arlan's a sulky, resentful silence.
A delicate, blissful fresh water fragrance to uplift, exhilarate and inspire. Ideal for customers who enjoy wearing fresh, floral fragrances .
Unless something amuses me or I happen to be blissfully happy, I'm not usually smiling.
December's gratuitousness was indeed enjoyable, but the blissful ignorance of overspending must be accounted for today. Dealing with Post-Holiday Debt
Not that endless hours of blissful slumber prevented him nodding off during his team's opening match against Japan on Tuesday.
St Moritz is home to a vast ski area that encompasses several classic - and blissfully uncrowded - intermediate runs.
Insofar as someone in a sufficiently blissful stupor had no opportunity to reflect that, say, they were squandering their capacities by not reading Proust or listening to Wagner, I think the mental-state welfarist is hard pressed to seriously aver that this person is experiencing less subjective happiness, from a God Who Loves You perspective, than someone who has the enjoyment of realizing their capacities. Happiness Redux
The blissfully peaceful hotels we have selected are all on Mahe Island and well situated for the beautiful beaches.
On yonder distant shore blazed the mighty Empire of the Sun in warm and blissful radiance, while on this side, in shadows cold and dark, gloomed the Hither Isles and the hill that once was golden, but now was green and slimy dross; all below was the sad and moaning sea, while between the Here and There flew the severed hand and dripped the bleeding heart. DARKWATER
More on blissful ignorance: Finley complains that I use the term division of labor as a "euphemism" for social stratification. Name Calling
Money or wealth gives a sense of security and happy sentiment, but not a long lasting contentment, blissfulness and inner peace. Dr T.P.Chia
He that doth see everything as God, God-beseemingly and clearly manifesteth unto thee, O blissful and wonderful one, the knowledge of the future and the cognisance of events that are going to take place. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
There seemed something more sensible about a society where mothers and children fled the city for the Catskills, the Hamptons, Maine, etc., while their husbands stayed behind in blissful, if sweat-stained, solitude, joining them on weekends or in August. Summers in Letters
For a blissful moment I watched everybody happy to be alive and counted myself one of them.
Nevertheless the law shows how blissfully unaware our lawmakers and politicians are of what goes on outside their narrow fishpond, and that they have no clue about the effect of their actions on the wider world. Carlo Strenger: Is Israel Alienating Jews of the World?
We've had a great eight years together now, and the arrival of wee baby Alex has placed us in a blissful state neither of us could have imagined possible.
Many country parishes were still living in blissful ignorance of the post-war crime wave.
Alexander wakes with a start, gives a visitor a perplexed, somewhat bleary stare, then melts blissfully back into slumber.
Back then, it was us against the world, our cherubic innocent faces blissfully wiped clear of reality.
The lotus flower symbolises the complete purification of the defilements of the body, speech and mind, and the full blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation.
He was handsome and could have had a life of blissful happiness for himself if he wished.
Those newlyweds were still blissfully unaware blushes and butterflies turn into ritual and routine. Christianity Today
Take, for instance, those ice cubes blissfully floating at the top of your iced tea. Christianity Today
A major collection of new poems, Notes of a Blissful Ghost, translated by Brian Holton, is due soon from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
The spiritual process essentially focuses on bringing peacefulness and blissfulness to an individual human being. Sadhguru: Cultivating Spirituality Among World Leaders
While some of my colleagues are asking kids to change out of shirts that expose their midriffs and skirts that fall ten inches or so above the knee, I usually find myself blissfully unaware of the tasteless atrocities that I am supposedly bombarded with on a daily basis.
This morning at about 6AM, I was awakened by the blissful sound of rain falling.
It's a blissful journey through peaceful forest and incredible limestone gorges. The Sun
The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
Overview: “Stretching 136 miles from Cumberland, Md., to Duquesne, Pa., the trail links to the C&O Canal towpath that starts in Washington, D.C., creating a blissfully traffic-free cyclists 'haven.” FH Boom Daily Digest - October 9, 2009 (The Boomer Blog)
He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves.
Meanwhile, I was going happily about my business, helping my dear wife spend her cash - which she did like a clipper-hand in port, I'm bound to say - and you would have said we were a blissful young couple, turning a blind eye to each other's infidelities and galloping in harness when we felt like it, which was frequent, for if anything she got more beddable with the passing years. Fiancée
The place is full of the aroma of Spot-Knee, the ram lamb who recently copped it after a blissful organic life.
It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum. Psalms of the Sisters
There seems no urgent case to change a winning formula but a repeat of the blissful weather and perfect ground of last October is highly improbable. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, the Twitterverse was a flutter with congratulations wishes -- from fellow artists to fans to casual listeners -- even as Lambert was blissfully resting from the end of a long, successful world tour. Reuters: Top News
You could blissfully overanalyze with talk of typography and photoshop chops - but I just think they're neat.
Is wedded bliss not quite so blissful any more? Times, Sunday Times
She woke to a blissfully comfortable state, smothered in a cocoon of feathery soft blankets.
It's a blissful journey through peaceful forest and incredible limestone gorges. The Sun
We preferred to remain in blissful ignorance of what was going on .
But changing the culture at a big company takes time, and all shouting "FAIL!" accomplishes is to make that clueful person (who actually follows their presence in social media) feel bad, while all their coworkers continue on, blissfully unaware of your criticism. The End of Fail - Anil Dash
I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky.
They grumbled unhappily, tripping over the hems of their deep lavender gowns marking them as chambermaids, and remained blissfully unaware.
So, you should kick off your shoes, get some scented oils into your bath, wrap yourself up in some of the cosiest bathrobes and if you want a blissful nights sleep try the snuggliest snow goose down duvets, pure indulgence! Add a Mediterranean Touch of luxury to your home
When they finally went back to their table, she was glowing with the exertion and blissfulness, but wasn't out of breath yet.
And "we the people" -- overtaxed, over-policed, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us -- will continue to trudge along a path of misery. John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing
Money or wealth gives a sense of security and happy sentiment, but not a long lasting contentment, blissfulness and inner peace. Dr T.P.Chia
Negative childhood experiences do not necessarily predestine adult problems any more than a wonderful childhood predicts a blissful adulthood. Parenting by the Book
Yes, the waters from the thermal springs that feed the town's impressive fountains and the blissful spa really must have magical powers.
To be unconsciously incompetent is far from blissful ignorance. Christianity Today
But a combination of blissful ignorance and determination got her through. Times, Sunday Times
And that's without mentioning the wide skies, the winding roads and a blissful lack of mobile phone reception.
Critics say there's a reason taxi boss Gordon Walker is blissfully unaware of the scope of the longhauling problem. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
Then I was in this blissful studio environment where you're completely unaware of what's going on.
The contrast must necessarily lie between such expression and that where the serene and blissful exaltation of the situation sets the predominating tone.
The boots are at that precarious stage of wearing out, and every blissful outing that they take with me now only decreases the time until they get thrown away.
Th 'embow'ring groves, and _Windsor's_ blissful plains, The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
Will tried to conjure up their blissful months together but before long he spiralled back down again. Times, Sunday Times
The temple was light, spacious and blissfully cool.
It's also blissfully easy to clean and to maintain - there's no reglazing, regrouting, revarnishing, patching up, or scrubbing down.
To Indians the word progress meant the passage of the soul through aeons of reincarnation towards a blissful absorption into the inconceivable void of indistinctive existence, as when at last a jar is broken and the space inside it returns to space. Essays in Rebellion
There are bookable floating lunches and candlelit cruises, blissfully free from the deluxe nouveau riche naffness that often dogs this type of enterprise.
Most of these sour pouting pusses are the far left - wing, nut - jobs who remain royally pissed the President didn't push through single payer, blissfully unaware of any resistance offered by the opposition. Will Durst: Pixie Dust Blues
The woman looked blissfully content, as though she had been granted her most heartfelt desire.
What exactly would make a ill-bred girl such as yourself so blissful?
The first year had been wonderful, a blissful novelty for them both. PASSION AND ILLUSION
They either remained blissfully ignorant about the deep symbolism of these images or deliberately ignored it.
Before I knew it, I was happily slurping my delicious pea and mint soup one-handed, left arm hooked blissfully over banister.
‘I love you so much, my darling Sanura,’ Kira whispered blissfully.
Trudi did not at all regard the verbal sketch of P. Blinders as a correct one, but though her love was blind to his pimples and ignored his stumpiness, she could not deny the spectacles, which were to her as peepholes affording visions of a blissful married future. The Dop Doctor
We pulled up within 10-feet of three lionesses and their cubs most blissfully napping.
Smiling a little smile of self-congratulation for having achieved this blissful state, he continued down. COLDHEART CANYON
Material possessions, hedonistic pleasures make people feel elated, but do not bring a deep sense of blissful happiness to the heart and soul. Dr T.P.Chia
Smiling in blissful content, she tried to remember the last time she had relaxed this much.
I'd always been peaceful and happy, that was not an issue, but here I was drenched in a completely different kind of blissfulness; every cell in my body bursting with ecstasy. Sadhguru: Making of a Mystic
Either she was blissfully innocent of being a tease or she knew what sort of effect that was likely to provoke.
Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with stingrays, thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few.
Only blissful ignorance or a warped sense of humour could have seen the bloke returned three times. Times, Sunday Times
With contented sighs, the two blissful lovers curled themselves around each other again.

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