How To Use Gleeful In A Sentence

With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
The GOP consultant who designed the ad gleefully called the mugshot “every suburban mother’s greatest fear.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The Perils of High Public Office
But the greatest relief of all was to discover that the apartment contained a bathroom and a latrine — for, as the agent gleefully explained, the insula lay right athwart one of Rome’s main sewers, and was legally supplied with an adjutage to the water supply. The First Man in Rome
I felt like a gleeful kid after a particularly lucrative Halloween expedition, and enacted the self-same rituals.
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007

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Within seconds we were discussing the next tour with the gleeful enthusiasm of two schoolboys. Times, Sunday Times
Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel?
Even the enthusiastic and gleeful performances can't compensate for the utter lameness of it all.
Here, we gleefully slosh about in communal pools of thick brown gloop, pouring it over ourselves with plastic pails and savouring the eucalyptus-like aroma, before washing it off under hot jets of salty spring water.
Uncle Alphonse had a strap hanging on the inside of the door to the bathroom that he used on Mick and Caesare with liberal and gleeful intent, recalling, perhaps, the beat - ings his father had inflicted on him in the "backhouse," as the outhouse was called. Second Skin
Chandra sighed and watched as the girls gleefully sorted through the assorted treasures they were unearthing.
Clarkson & Co'sdogged shilling for a thoroughly modern ie gleefully irresponsible, stonewashed brand of middle age. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
This is an attempt to bring us to a better understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which the creationists - through willful ignorance - gleefully flaunt as their disproof of science.
But her narrative gains from the tangible physicality of theatre and gleefully combines eroticism and wit.
Leicester were glum and Bath were almost gleeful. Times, Sunday Times
With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical Frames Per Second Magazine
Small arcs of electricity played over its surface as his eyes danced gleefully.
As you enter a nondescript building at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, you are met with enough cutting edge technology to make any gadgeteer gleeful. Rita Braver: Future Shock?
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Now under the influence of a homemade hallucinogenic substance, Oscar is making another impression altogether whether he's singing and smiling gleefully, which is spooking the guests at such a somber affair, or threatening to jump from the rooftop (while naked, of course) because he mistakenly thinks that Elaine is cheating on him. Crosswalk.com - Home
A gleeful grin crossed his face.
We collapsed with gleeful guffaws thinking it was our secret discovery and no way would our teacher know what we were on about.
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
Nice to see the newspaper's subs parading their gleeful ignorance of elementary meteorology, just in case any of us remained in doubt.
Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.
The library staff gleefully found the answers to the words that end in gry: hungry, angry (OK, those were easy), aggry (a type of ancient, variegated glass beads), meagry (having Librarian Heroes - Des Moines Register Article
You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
The movie gleefully flaunts the fact that it is gorgeously overdone.
Yesterday she launched a blistering attack on the gleeful liberals who have delighted in her husband's troubles.
As only she could, Violet had noticed how Althia's reading of them irked him and gleefully added more salt to the wound by laughing merrily whenever she spoke.
The other tabloids will gleefully join in, in a frenzy of self-righteous hypocrisy.
I spent the rest of their visit gleefully boring them with tedious details.
Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
She would spend hours in gleeful delight finding out new things.
The air is balmy; the smiling lawns are gay with a thousand little flowers, dandelions, rock-roses, tansies and daisies, among which the harvesting Bee rolls gleefully, covering herself with pollen. Bramble-Bees and Others
By the time the risotto is ready, you'll have an aching arm and a gleefully hearty appetite. Times, Sunday Times
After nine rounds of scrunch-faced spellings and a few gleefully lucky guesses, Michael Whalon terminated his competition with "eviscerate" yesterday in the 35th annual Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee. News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["]. Slackbastard
My interest in Manchester's bands and their gabby, glib boss was minimal, but this is a gleefully rambunctious trip to a manky heart of darkness, with guns, deaths and prodigious amounts of drugs.
The build-up was almost gleeful. Times, Sunday Times
The joyous screams, the gleeful yelps, and a happy, wagging tail added life to the peaceful, gentle beach.
Here, the news isn't just partisan but gleefully partisan: conservative, red-in-the-face news narrowcast to the red states.
The build-up was almost gleeful. Times, Sunday Times
Then he announced gleefully that light bulb orders had jumped, suggesting that factories were working overtime.
The horrible verse restarted, the tone at once gleeful and derisive, then gradually faded out as Bartlemy murmured a dismissal. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
A thief jumped in and drove away, but the weaving truck scattered a trail of donuts in its wake - a fragrant trail which cops gleefully homed in on.
Shielding the bright sun from her eyes with a suntanned hand and grinning widely, she opened her arms and the girl leapt gleefully into them.
However my maid had gleefully portrayed to me the details of his handsome countenance.
Who then was gleeful but the knight, and strange it was to see all his sorrow run off him; and he became glad and gamesome as a youth, and yet withal exceeding courteous and kind with her, as though he were serving a mighty queen. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
But we could also argue that the act of portraying the high priest of the Old Ones in such cutesy-kitschy form represents an attempt to tame, defang, and neuter the shrieking horror of our plight instead of gleefully accepting it. Archive 2010-03-01
Yet they fixate on their differences with us, and they are faithful, sometimes gleeful, chroniclers of every American deviance from the Jacksonian creed, such as our growing economic inequality and the corruption of our political system by big money. Misfit America
Since passing the 2002 law, senators have gleefully cashed beaucoup campaign contribution checks from these CEOs and their lobbyists.
And didn't he up with the butt end of his gun and give him one right in the teeth, " one soldier was saying gleefully with a wide sweep of his arm.
Martyn Hunter, playing Ben, provided most of the rare comic moments - gleefully crashing on to the stage riding a stolen bicycle, and forever punctuating his speech with a sudden, wicked laugh.
'_I have made him think, I have made him think_,' he repeats gleefully; and, sure of his point, he delights in having held our attention so intently as to cause us to debate the issue with ourselves. The Book-Hunter at Home
‘She got tromped on by Sam,’ Tatiana said gleefully.
The seafood dishes were good, the vegetables wonderful, and my slurpy "Big Boy" bowl of noodles (the restaurant didn't call it that, but Hartmut Kliemt DID call it that, and my table gleefully took up the cry) was just fine. Binh Minh in Frankfurt
MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
By 2004 they owned the party and applied the term gleefully to the Last Surviving Republican Moderates, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow. OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days.
The Welsh international cleverly chested it down into the path of Earnshaw who gleefully smashed the ball home with a flashing volley.
Since our "prolife" president (you know, the one that gets smirkily gleeful over executions) took office, the number of abortions has increased every year as families fall apart under his anti-family and anti-middle class economic policies. Christian Right Leaders Agree: If Rudy Is Nominated, We Might Go Third-Party
It is as if an old man were to play out a joke on those younger who have yet to understand that secret wisdom which gives him a gleeful omnipotence over their actions.
His connections with different musical worlds are multifarious: he's assisted Philip Glass, written a film score for Stephen Daldry and worked with Björk, as well as producing his own gleefully eclectic music which already covers a huge range of genres. This week's new live music
About the only power play then left to film actors (the same lunkheads who are gleefully grinding out product now) would be to place a strike-sensitive embargo on promoting these films when they come out.
This clip of children gleefully shouting their favorite euphemisms for their bathroom ... dealings comes from the Sesame Street potty-training DVD Elmo's Potty Time. The Internet needs this
The scene in the video where Warman is sitting around with some street urchins, gleefully plotting to "humiliate" Icke told me all I needed to know: Warman wasn't about human rights, or elevating society, or the best of the human spirit. Who's afraid of Richard Warman? - Ezra Levant
Very gleeful when I think of it having to walk through all that dust!
Yet put them together with a kind of pitiless precision and gleeful tendency to turn every downer into a music rave-up, and you've got yet another entry in what has become a really impressive body of work. Making A 'Big To-Do' About Life's Important Things
Unwrapping them the next morning and gleefully comparing their contents is a joy no stage-managed event can ever provide.
Oh, and the Duck, who was one of the people we sent the rejoinder to, made this offer, which we gleefully reproduce without his permission: fisticuffs at dawn, victory by pinfall or submission, fully captured on video and up on youtube within ten minutes. it's really the answer. i'm willing to be the referee if all participants are clad in yellow swimsuits. Archive 2008-02-01
As for the title track, why not use plucked strings, craggy violin bowing, and rumbling xylophones to gleefully pervert the title's sentiment?
This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck.
He is no Richard Dawkins, gleefully machine-gunning religion while crying that we are merely receptacles for our genes.
`I'm making the spare bedroom my darkroom ," he warned in gleeful anticipation. LASTING TREASURES
Rally organizers gleefully play up the potential for unpleasant, unexpected catastrophe—catnip for the type of New Yorker who thrives on attempting arduous feats, from monthlong juice fasts to autorickshaw journeys. Around the World in 80 Ways
Small children weaved in and out of the wigwams, laughing gleefully.
He seems almost gleeful, despite the impact. Times, Sunday Times
We discover Athenian women going on a three-day binge every autumn, gleefully burying models of male genitalia.
You know, I've got to tell you, it shocks me and it kind of sickens me too, that if he goes to restaurants, people will come up to him and ask for his autograph, almost gleefully.
As every poll comes out, yours truly cheers the passage of the tumbrel bearing the Howard Government to the guillotine as gleefully as the most ragged and revolutionary tricoteuse.
Until late in the proceedings, when the story makes an unconvincing segue from hard-edged to soft, "Cripple" is as gleefully vinegary as anything McDonagh has conjured. McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life
Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
I'm shouting ‘Are you Ellie’ and Elie, complete with a mouthful of parkin, is gleefully shouting back ‘Yeth I am.’
In a thinly veiled attempt to mobilise lynch mobs, the press gleefully reported calls for the two to be hunted down and punished.
The defensive end, who missed all but three games last year with a herniated disk in his neck, said he'd rather discuss specifics once the deal was signed, but Tuck, who only just joined the ranks of the Twitterati on Tuesday, gleefully broke the news Thursday. Giants Keep Up Their Hectic Maneuvering
It's daughter Caroline's third birthday and a proud and happy little girl turns church-going into a gleeful romp.
The hairdresser plonked me down in her spinning salon chair, took a handful of my hair and exclaimed gleefully,
Tom had triumphantly brought home the buck and gleefully called it sidehill-salmon when it was served and eaten at Frederick's own table. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”. Terror Blunder joy
Rolling snow into snowmen, gleefully compacting the beautiful flakes into firm white balls, revelling in the joy of the winter holidays.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
The result is an intricate, gleeful conversation between eras, ideas and characters.
TS is a profoundly dumb movie, and not dumb in a gleeful Independence Day sort of way, with bad jokes and Jeff Goldblum being all cute. Terminator Offers Some Lessons for the Salvation of Your Novel
You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
I had forgotten about his magical place where the sun shines every day, the grass is still green, where rhododendrons, impatiens, and geraniums blossom in gleeful profusion. Renewed
But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron. Roseanne Archy
So, for example, in the sentence “I am gleefully wacky,” gleefully is an adverb because it modifies an adjective (wacky). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Weekend Writing Exercise
Maybe "Praha" is actually a gleeful bark of triumph over foreigners 'stupidity? Crosscut
He crossed the line rubbing his hands together gleefully, with all the pure pleasure of a happy 15 year old boy.
Because the the…thing that burns—no, no, the very burning itself, the…pyre…fire, it glees, it is all gleeful, it lives to burn. Wildfire
The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
At this point, for reasons unguessable, the teachers gleefully shout obscenities at the car, giving their young charges a vocabulary lesson that their parents probably won't appreciate.
Hundreds of millions of viewers were captivated by the episode of Dallas in which the gleefully wicked millionaire oilman JR Ewing was shot by an unknown assailant while working late.
A competitive intelligence professional, he gleefully and guiltlessly uses deception to extract information from corporate executives for their rivals.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
LNN: What is your intended audience for this project, why so, and does your mother ever worry about you corrupting the world's youth with the ideas of an unrepentant (yet certainly gleeful) misanthropist? Archive 2009-11-01
She gleefully calls attention to Hickabee's mistep with a fakey little sympathy grunt then goes on to rub it in. Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee'
The comments, overheard and gleefully printed in the Liberation newspaper, have landed the French president deep in the merde on the eve of this week's crucial G8 summit in Scotland.
With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
Whitney yowled and pounced gleefully into the mess, her tail twitching excitedly.
In any event, the kicker will be what Costello is waiting gleefully to exploit: how will they pay for it?
That's Britain! is essentially a primetime assortment of those gleeful "oof, Britain is down the swanny" chunterings that Nigel Farage treats us all to on Question Time, usually greeted by light applause from two women who mistakenly thought he was passionate about hanging baskets. That's Britain!: Grace Dent's TV OD
The expression on Rajbir's face, what Amrita can see through his beard, is one of gleeful prurience—Rajbir knows that after the number these women are his to do with as he pleases—Rajbir pleases much—he elongates the O in snOwing and blOwing to an uncomfortable degree and Amrita shivers in the dusty snow. FISH/SEX excerpt (Pradesh)
Summarizing the plot, a gleeful morass of B-movie humour involving an evil sibling, a bionic bigfoot and radioactive pearls, is not only difficult, but also useless.
One shocking scene shows street children assaulting a wino and gleefully rolling him down the stairs, punishment for his spiritual and physical corruption.
His bizarre word rhythm and gleeful disregard for punctuation makes even his most banal utterances sound dramatic.
The children are doubling up with laughter, pointing at each other gleefully as the clowns knock their noisemakers on their little heads as they run past.
I can remember watching Dad become gleeful the first time we went wade fishing together. Christianity Today
Not only has the show reached its 15th anniversary but tonight also brings the return of the annual jamboree Hollyoaks Later, during which Hollyoaks gets to pretend it is Skins: showing flesh, gleefully swearing and generally revelling in the bacchanalian Arcadia that is post-watershed E4. The post-watershed wonder of Hollyoaks Later is worth celebrating
Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.
The gleeful, defiant cheer "DRILL BABY, DRILL" has disappeared and those that boorishly barked it look like snails caught on a warm summer sidewalk. Matthew Modine: Sucking Big Oil's Tit: We Are All Complicit in the World's Latest and Largest Oil Disaster
Arguably, though a conversation with fellow hacks who know a lot more about buses than I do left unresolved the question of whether it will prove less manoeuvrable than the surprisingly manoeuvrable articulated "bendy" buses that Boris Johnson is gleefully - and rather pointlessly - phasing out. Boris's Bus (A Political Journey) Part 33: The Finished Article
Hogg then outpaced the Beckwithshaw defence during a swift break and his square pass into the penalty-area was gleefully blasted home by Braithwaite from 12 yards.
The Queen gives an order to hold a royal celebration. The gleeful gold birds, the lucky peacocks with burny tail feather and vigorous Blue soldiers push the celebration to climax gradually.
It borders on the absurd for the mourner to dance gleefully while his parent lies dead in a fresh grave.
The revelations have been received gleefully in French publishing and literary circles, where the author is regarded as a jumped-up interloper who has defiled French literature.
You've run with the pack in a gleeful stomp right on top of him.
The film is billed as a sophisticated comedy that gleefully mixes slapstick humour, with something a little more grown-up for all viewers.
She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth. William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later
He then gave me a maliciously gleeful look and walked over to the wall again.
Their third came when the ball was dropped at the feet of the opposing striker, who gleefully slammed the ball home.
Her laugh was a gleeful, exuberant shout, her deep voice making it almost masculine.
Administrador woke us all up, and gleefully presented us with an enormous bowl of sangaree, made of the remains of the Bordeaux and the brandy and the pisco, and plenty of ice, -- ice this time, -- and sugar, and limes, and slices of pineapple, Madam, -- the which he had concocted during our slumber. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
Many people are reluctant to discuss their political views openly for fear of reprisals, but there was a mood of gleeful defiance at yesterday's rally. Times, Sunday Times
He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
By the end of “Follies of Science,” any modern technologist is bound to start wondering: Are our current predictions about the future any smarter than the endless parade of goofiness and gullibility that “Follies of Science” gleefully enumerates? Predictions that Never Came True | Impact Lab
They were ambling joyfully, jumping, excited by the huge gleeful crowd.
She greeted the word like a new toy and, for the next three weeks, everyone and everything in her life had the r-word gleefully applied to them, from her brother to contestants on Strictly Come Dancing. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
When, therefore, he was exhorted to rap on the little girl's door, he gave sundry noisy, gleeful thumps, – pounding with both fists, and alternating with a rhythmical kick of the cowhide boots, calling out in stentorian tones: Come, little un, – time you 's up. Oldtown Folks
I could tell from his gleeful, ironic smile that we had stumbled into a realm where international politics was at play. Times, Sunday Times
I could tell from his gleeful, ironic smile that we had stumbled into a realm where international politics was at play. Times, Sunday Times
If it weren't true, the US would have gleefully demonstrated the contrary.
With the media supporting him and gleefully reporting on leaked information about the investigation, there was no effective check on his abuse of power.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
He kept his flying pride and joy on White Waltham airfield and to its upkeep devoted the bulk of his income, gleefully informing anyone who would listen that it left aerobic exercises out of sight as a keep-fit heart-stresser. Second Wind
The latter laughed gleefully as she saw the hand coming her way.
People leave the theatre either gleefully ruminating over what it all means, or cursing the day non-linear narrative was invented.
But you can defend people without gleefully inventing whole new insults. Times, Sunday Times
The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
Suddenly they've got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up. January 2009
She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan, who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth. William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
Buckley was a bon vivant with luxurious tastes, a prolific author of best-selling novels as well as serious nonfiction, a sportsman most gleeful on icy slopes and navigating through a gale, a world-class namedropper, a refined musicologist (and self-taught harpsichord player) and a lover of big words (a sesquipedalian, as he might say). He Knew He Was Right
Admittedly, this is much ado about nothing since the Dems control the legislature and the state, and the few state republicans left will watch gleefully as the dems once again purport to tell the voters what's good for them. ichong Patrick supports Kennedy's wish for interim senator
A gleeful, childlike look overcame her face and she bounded off towards the vending machine.
Windermere started brightly and twice went close themselves before an unmarked attacker gleefully took Lytham's first chance of the game.
She gleefully portrays the dual roles of Rose's flaky adoptive mother Claire and Rose's native godmother Maddie.
He signed his max contract extension and scooped everyone with a gleeful proclamation on Twitter.
Now we have some professionally gleeful all-purpose presenter.
Back in the day, it was all about Paris Hilton and her love tryst with the “Runaway Bride” and Lacey Peterson; and the way Michael Jackson and JonBenet, and whatever and ever amen, meanwhile our Constitution burned and the US went from appearing to be the great force for good in the world to a squanderer of trillions, murderer of millions and gleeful despoiler of the entire planet. Current Comedy 3/2/09: Fools' Rushin'
On the other hand it was, of course, just unrepentantly, gleefully, riding-on-a-teatray-down-the-stairs funny. Times, Sunday Times
These are the iron rules imposed by the world's most successful female pop star who has spent most of her career gleefully bulldozing the boundaries of decency on television, in films and in the pages of the press.
Friday's Wall Street Journal editorial, "Barack's Windfall Reversal," in barely contained gleeful terms crowed that a transition spokesman "explained this week that that the drop in oil prices to $50 barrel has made the windfall tax a dead letter. Raymond J. Learsy: Obama's Oil Company Windfall Profits Tax and the Wall Street Journal's Celebration
A fortnight, then," Gord called gleefully over his shoulder. Night Arrant
Other displays mix genres and media with almost gleeful abandon.
What you remember are the gleeful celebrations of human cruelty. The Sun
Bad Teacher is not the sole offender here... there's a coarse little entry that's currently number three at the box office called Horrible Bosses, which gleefully traffics in murder, racial stereotypes, sexual perversion and jokes about obese and handicapped people. John Farr: Is Today's Film Comedy in the Toilet?
Whether this persistent "overbid" in implied volatility will continue depends entirely on the risk appetites of traders and on the ability of the market to stay calm and gleeful - an increase in days like Wednesday and Thursday of last week would make options prices more nearly fairly valued. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Remy is one of their best Repo Men and he loves his job a lot, gleefully hunting down past due accounts and extracting The Union’s property. Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert’s BigScreen Blurbs — REPO MEN! This Nasty Sci-Fi Actioner Will Make You Do The REPOSSESSION MAMBO!
With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun.
My low, glum eyebrow position immediately exploded into a gigantic gleeful gloat!
I'm gleefully child-free, so I'll admit to not following these issues as closely as a parent would.
It's almost enough to warrant a splenetic, Burchill-esque diatribe against contemporary gay social mores - full of sweeping generalisations and gleeful scatter-shot vitriol.
There's plenty of narcissism triggers in his background - the highly respected, distant father, whose values he gleefully desecrates even as he treats him with an almost somber respect.
I spent the rest of their visit gleefully boring them with tedious details.
What you remember are the gleeful celebrations of human cruelty. The Sun
Along the way, you will be transported to other rich and diverse cultures and experiences that exemplify the essence of Bushman spirituality—spontaneous movement, gleeful absurdity, and potent life force. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Mrs. Mortimer noted her sparkling glances which took in everything, and went out of her way to show Saxon around, doing it under the guise of gleeful boastings, stating the costs of the different materials, explaining how she had done things with her own hands, such as staining the doors, weathering the bookcases, and putting together the big Mission Morris chair. CHAPTER III
Sterling ended the session by reading gleefully from a news report about a riot in Chiapas that started with a raid by the police on some vendors of pirated software, hinting perhaps at real consumer price wars in our future. Boing Boing: March 10, 2002 - March 16, 2002 Archives
But he was; she heard his shrill voice calling her name gleefully and turned round once more to see the boat gliding away at a great rate with him waving from a seat in the middle. Grasp A Nettle
I could tell from his gleeful, ironic smile that we had stumbled into a realm where international politics was at play. Times, Sunday Times
For the record, let's consider the Fannie and Freddie debacle: Barney Frank in 2003 said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not facing any kind of financial crisis ... then we have Bill Clinton who asserted that Democrats resisted standards for two institutions ... on the top of that we now have Obama who is a top recipient of Freddie and Fannie lobbies pushing for no-doc loans, nothing-down houses, equity-line hustles, phony appraisals, in short gleefully shaking the money tree in every direction they could. The Last Debt Orgy
The birth is recorded in an odd shot of the nurse gleefully holding aloft the bloody placenta.
By keeping wages close to subsistence level, the Arkansas-based retailer offers low prices that draw herds of gleeful shoppers away from the competition.
‘Sure does’ I said cheerfully, feeling quite gleeful after such a good night behind me.
With parsnips and broccoli sprouting in her hair, she's gleefully grotesque and seething discreetly with misanthropic contempt. Times, Sunday Times
The gleeful announcements of free wifi service, a possible new aerobus system and others which come at no cost to the government are some examples. Straight Talk
Ask a few leading questions and I find a man who is gleefully off-message in every respect.
People leave the theatre either gleefully ruminating over what it all means, or cursing the day non-linear narrative was invented.
The locals, apparently, looked with gleeful anticipation to the coming of city folks with fat wallets.
This gleefully grisly British horror contains some gruesome moments. Times, Sunday Times
Arriving and departing for the wedding the bride and groom looked gleeful in their horse drawn chariot with driver in full regale.
I was especially gleeful because she was my primary school best friend.
He seems almost gleeful, despite the impact. Times, Sunday Times
She stomped into the storeroom, listening gleefully as Sonia was dragged from the shop by Ritchie, still spouting vitriol. TICKLED PINK
But you can defend people without gleefully inventing whole new insults. Times, Sunday Times
He was walking with a pronounced stoop, gleefully rubbing his hands together and grinning like a maniac.

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