Sentences with phrase «almost gleeful»

You sound almost gleeful that your figures supposedly show that 7 billion people are on the way to a dreadful future of a warmed planet.

An almost gleeful nihilism turns childlike adornment to a symbol for mass murder, cultural rot and the temporal decay of pictorial language.

Visible from the gallery entrance is FORGETABOUTITBATMAN, a huge painting of Batman's cowl, the character's eyes twisted into an almost gleeful expression.

Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Upton Sinclair, Jack London and Mark Twain (and his noisome cigars) are portrayed with an almost gleeful viciousness, for these ghastly men and their fictional counterparts represent the very worst aspects of misogyny and patriarchy.

The massive destruction is presented with almost a gleeful abandon.

There is something almost gleeful in the way it recounts several disasters such as Rome and the San Francisco Bridge being roasted by cosmic rays.

When Mr. Bharara brought corruption charges against Mr. Silver, he was almost gleeful.

America's fundamentalists, on the other hand, were almost gleeful, at least at first.

There was a twinge of the apocalyptic to the Y2Kers who seemed almost gleeful as they stockpiled food and water in preparation for the impending worldwide computer glitch that would return us to pre-computer life.

Speaking in shirt sleeves to more than 700 people at a Boston hotel, a relaxed Mr. Obama appeared almost gleeful as he went after the Republican presidential candidates as a group.

The cable companies are almost gleeful in pointing out the advantages their service will have, with the press release asking viewers if they're tired «of endless scrolling» or «outdated series» — clear digs at Netflix.

Not exact matches

Part of the reason for the gleeful, almost celebratory, response to the saturated fat rethink is that people do not like being lectured to by the health police, and enjoy gloating when they appear to have got it wrong.

Disturbing too, yes, and wholly wrong in almost each and every scene, but the film so revels in its own gleeful debauchery that it's infectious... if you've got the stomach for it.

While it mostly relies on a tried and tired Ubisoft - open - world formula, the exhilarating car combat, the gleeful punk - rock absurdity of its world and the characters that populate it, and its almost flawless presentation make it something more than the sum of its well worn parts.

I was gleeful at the superior Mr. Stark meeting his egomaniacal match in Stephen Strange; the battle of snark vs. snark was almost as good as watching any of the action sequences.

The third act puts her through the gamut and almost takes a gleeful joy in her suffering, culminating with an atrocious beating captured in blistering close - up.

It's a combination of soul, futuristic percussion and symphonic pride that seamlessly rockets with an inspirational vibe, never failing to hear melodic optimism in the face of almost unbelievable prejudice, finally uniting in a common, movingly melodic goal that's greatly empowered by Williams» sense of energetic vocalese — though his vocal beat box stylings stop understandably short of a chorus of «Happy,» given the less - than gleeful era its heroines» music nobly gains its determined respect from.

Almost strangers, they stood, strangely together, on a new pinnacle of existence, gleeful that their new status promised to promote them out of their endless youth — Edward and Florence, free at last!

Sad to say, after only four or five hours of play I found my interest in the multiplayer side of the game almost completely gone, while it was the inventiveness and gleeful experimentation of the single player campaign which kept me coming back for more.