Sentences with phrase «as gleeful»

Your teen may see driving as a gleeful burst of independence, but you as a parent may not be as gung - ho.

But their love for this kind of brazen tackiness is far more than skin deep (as anyone familiar with their body of work knows), and their devotion here produces as gleeful a piece of subversion as one could hope for.

Although its overwhelming logic is hence from video games — «I've never made it this far,» Cage tells his followers at one point, when asked what comes next — Edge of Tomorrow works best as a gleeful riff on the narrative tricks endemic to the cinema, an art defined more by editing than by images.

Flaunting an illusion neckline that's delightfully ladylike, this feminine frock can be found exclusively at ModCloth, and makes you as gleeful as a blue sky and shimmering sunlight.

Are your chat rooms as gleeful as the rooms housing Santa's elves working on your special present?

Not exact matches

As Donald Trump's position at the front of the Republican presidential race has become more and more unshakeable, the media's attitude towards him has changed gradually from a position of somewhat gleeful ridicule to concern that this man actually has a shot at becoming president of the United States — and that the media itself may have helped put him there.

Perhaps a bit more realistically, and minus the dramatics, the theorist's scenario might feature Jesuit deans in black bespoke suits sitting in their offices on a conference call that ends with much gleeful rubbing together of hands by the participants as they confirm their plot to game the system.

In the long term, peer - to - peer finance threatens to weaken banks and other financial agents just as peer - to - peer file sharing did the music industry — and some of the architects of this financial Napster seem gleeful about the possibility.

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.

Ten years after the official start of the downturn, some entrepreneurs profiled by The Associated Press as the recession began say now that they are grateful but not gleeful; they have many painful memories and lessons learned.

Except for the absence of gleeful Assassination Arts and Crafts, the situations mirror each other to a remarkable degree, and the administration has little reason to fear anything from the right except for their boisterous opposition and the possibility that the more spiteful among them might sing «na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye» as Marine One carries the former President Obama to Andrews Air Force Base.

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.

Partly it is a celebration of power for its own sake: the gleeful freedom of the builders of Babel rising again as they sense that God is just a concept, and one that hinders their autonomy.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The response to World Vision revealed some major fault lines in the Church, and many of us who grew up evangelical interpreted all the gleeful «farewelling» from evangelical leaders as our final kick out the door.

They are gleeful about it and pounce as if proving some point.

I sobbed (and puked) on the couch in our front room as I watched out the front window and saw what seemed like hundreds of gleeful kids come eat hot dogs and enjoy the festivities.

And I witnessed in gleeful astonishment as her stories and brilliant recipes nourished every cell in my body.

As of Aug. 28, the day before the trades, the A's had lost five of their last seven games, had recently lost center - fielder Dave Henderson to a knee injury, had watched Jose Canseco struggle with back ailments and had begun to hear gleeful whispers from around the league: Ha!

There is no way of making a head count of the mobs that turned out over the three - day Washington's Birthday weekend, but from the gleeful hand - rubbing of resort owners, it is obvious that the 22nd of February is becoming as much the day of the skier as it is the day of our nation's founder.

These hyperbole addicts and gleeful doom - mongers have been predicting the «sinking» of our «top four hopes» as though we were some sort of giant red and white Titanic.

The sand we trampled on as we played, squealing and gleeful on the playground and at the park.

Very few children are natural - born organizers, and many seem positively gleeful to make as big a mess as possible.

This delightful course is designed to uplift your spirits with a weekly class of lighthearted play, videos and creative assignments to beckon gleeful spontaneity into your life as you delve into your own personal definition of happiness and joy.

This canopy meets with gleeful squeals from our two children who love that the canopy also acts as a privacy shield for them.

Democrats were practically gleeful when Mitt Romney selected the Wisconsin congressman as his runningmate — especially here in New York where his proposals, particularly when it comes to overhauling Medicare, played a key role in Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul's upset special election victory in a GOP - dominated WNY district last spring.

As we leash up (I'm not sure if I leash them or they leash me), my 85 - pound female labradoodle gets this giant gleeful grin on her face, just like the look I had on my face the first day of early summer when my mother would tell me it was finally warm enough to go swimming or in winter, when school was cancelled and we looked out on a foot of snow!

His first act as his nation's leader is, naturally, to go on a mission to South Korea to catch a manically gleeful South African smuggler, Ulysses Klaus (Andy Serkis).

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.

With The Fate of the Furious, it feels like the movies have gotten as big as they can get, and the gleeful absurdity that drove them is losing ground to the specter of obligation.

With such big - budget major studio efforts as Con Air (1997) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the fledgling director has indeed proven his keen ability to shoot entertainingly jarring action scenes that place filmgoers in the eye of a frenzied storm of chaos with such gleeful abandon that he has become a solid staple in the Michael Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer cannon.

As we've seen with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3, he knows how to deconstruct the traditional masculine lead, and he does it here with gleeful abandon.

Rather than the gleeful gratuitousness that Tarantino employed in Django Unchained, there is reason to this assault on our senses, as McQueen's sequences present a subtle range of emotional responses to such cruelty and injustice, in both black and white characters.

If not for some gleeful and over-the-top gore effects the killer bunny's constant whipping around of its massive penis might have come off as masturbatory.

Andy Serkis appears in the flesh to reprise his role in the MCU as Ulysses Klaue, complete with a prosthetic hand cannon fueled by vibranium and a gleeful penchant for violence.

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.

As a sleazy, womanizing, quasi-sociopath with a genius for taking advantage of everyone he comes into contact with, he is inventive and gleeful, using his good looks against the character.

It's also a gleeful get out of jail free card for the filmmakers to take liberties with «fact», as slippery a concept as that becomes.

I wasn't a big fan of Richard Curtis's sappy - silly «Love, Actually,» but the writer - director's new fact - based film, «Pirate Radio» has moments of gleeful anarchism drawing on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including «The Goon Show,» the «Carry On» movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as «The Lavender Hill Mob.»

Shyamalan seems to be gleeful in his writing of the character, as well.

David Dobkin followed up Shanghai Nights with this completely reckless and gleeful joyride that pit Vaughn and Wilson alongside one another as they assumed their most infectious roles to date.

As always you have seven days to clear your throats and make yourselves heard - are we with the compromised brooder or the gleeful maniac - in the comments, so have at it.

There's the early period Miike who tore into the human body with the gleeful abandon of a child unwrapping presents under the tree on Christmas morning, as seen in his early efforts Audition, Gozu or Ichi The Killer.

From its opening credits («Produced by Asshats... Directed by an Overpaid Tool») to its motormouthed antihero and gleeful ultraviolence, the film was received as Marvel's grungy outlier, the one that broke all the rules, the superhero for grown - ups.

However overall, Ghost Town is a gentle romantic «date movie» that is saved from becoming a total «chick flick» by Gervias» delightful and at times gleeful turn as the cranky yet in the end likable Dr. Pincus and by comedic dialog so well written by David Koepp and John Kamps and delivered under the deft direction of David Koepp that you just can't stop laughing.

Pecker's photos of his «culturally challenged» family and community come to arouse great interest in the New York art world, building to a rise to fame that causes the inevitable friction with his family; his girlfriend Shelley (Christina Ricci, wonderfully acid as always), who runs her laundromat with an iron fist; and his gleeful shoplifter of a best friend, Matt (Brendan Sexton III).

The story, however, as announced with gleeful idiocy (but honesty!)

They take it very seriously, and we watch as some of them watch the shower scene — repeated and rewound to highlight various compositions, setups, and cuts (The title comes from the scene's 78 setups and 52 edits)-- with a mixture of gleeful and terrified admiration.

The film version of WikiLeaks» rise and fall, «The Fifth Estate,» portrays the operation as an amalgamation of journalistic enterprise and gleeful computer - hacker playground.

With gleeful enthusiasm, one of Nixon's apparatchiks dismissed me as associate director of the White House Fellows Program, with my position filled by a Republican loyalist.