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The term "blissful" is employed across diverse literary genres to evoke a profound sense of joy, serenity, and sometimes divine ecstasy. In works with a spiritual or mystical focus, it describes transcendent states or experiences of divine love that free the soul from worldly woe, as in the passages that depict an endless realm of serene delight ([1], [2], [3]). At times it conveys a deeply personal, reflective moment—a smile laden with inner peace or the ineffable beauty of a moment caught in time ([4], [5], [6]). Meanwhile, the word adapts to more casual or even ironic contexts, capturing fleeting moments of joy amid hardship or the juxtaposition of happiness with unexpected circumstance ([7], [8]). Thus, "blissful" serves as an evocative bridge between the sensory experience of joy and the metaphysical pursuit of ultimate contentment in literature.
  1. For in that precious blissful sight there may no woe abide, nor any weal fail.
    — from Revelations of Divine Love
  2. And the beholding of this blissful accord is full sweet to the soul that seeth by grace.
    — from Revelations of Divine Love
  3. Thus is that Blissful Sight [the] end of all manner of pain to the loving soul, and the fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss.
    — from Revelations of Divine Love
  4. When Varvara Nikolaevna woke up and came out from behind the screen, Kovrin was dead, and a blissful smile was set upon his face.
    — from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  5. A blissful smile was straying on her pale, exhausted face, and her eyes were beaming.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  6. "I was in love with you then, and I remember I spent all night sitting under your parasol, and was perfectly blissful.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  7. Often in afterlife Pierre recalled this period of blissful insanity.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  8. it is too blissful to be true; alas, I do but dream.
    — from Roughing It by Mark Twain

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