Sentences with phrase «by gleeful»

The historic bell tower, newly restored church and a few games of dominoes offer a quiet backdrop that is only interrupted by the gleeful cheers of kids when the primary school lets out.

Meanwhile, set photos have shown Doctor Strange defeated by a gleeful Ebony Maw, who attempts to take the Time Stone.

At a style swap, all that self - talk about what will and will not look good on you gets drowned out by the gleeful exhortations of others.

The rumor mill — fueled by gleeful Western New York Democrats — kicked into high gear following the resignation last week of two high - level Maziarz staffers.

Savage Tory cuts cheered by gleeful knights of the shire.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

In this game he lost it for us in two crazy minutes, failing to come for crosses that were nodded in by gleeful, smaller players.

Now, there's no way of knowing if this most inauspicious number contributed in anyway to the outcome of the tournament: to the Maracanazo; to the destruction of the dreams of the Brazilian nation by the gleeful Uruguayans; to the cultural wound that still festers to this day but which might, just might, be healed if they can win the thing at home on the second attempt.

You don't just believe that bad things will happen to non-believers, you plan to take great joy in their suffering and your life currently is dominated by your gleeful anticipation of their fear and pain?

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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.

Hans Gruber makes for an unlikely business icon, but the villain of the classic 1988 action movie Die Hard (played with gleeful malevolence by the late, great Alan Rickman) had an apt insight into the nature of success.

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.

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.

I don't think most are gleeful about hell for others but I have certainly been threatened with it by christian «friends» and even my delusional fundy mother.

JPop - I wouldn't judge all atheists by who post here any more than I would judge all Christians by the kind who gleeful look forward to our going to he'll.

And then in (with a gleeful chuckle of righteous indignation, of course) when you knock them off the ladder, you can assume that the divine saftey net will teach them a lesson by conveniently letting them hit the bottom with full force.

Stone is a veteran operative, known for his gleeful use of dirty tricks and for ending Eliot Spitzer's political career by leaking his patronage of prostitutes to the FBI.

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.

The seed of dweebdom is already within you, deftly planted by portly wordsmith George R R Martin, and dating a geek gives you the gleeful freedom to blossom into a fully fledged, unrepentant dork.

Darwin describes the Tierra del Fuegan children's gleeful tossing of Western clothes and teachings in a way that suggests he's amused by the experiment's failure, and even draws some instruction from it.

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.

It is directed by the 80 - year - old Ridley Scott with gleeful energy and riotous attack.

The Experimenta Special Presentation is THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, a gleeful, hypnotic and totally deranged epic directed by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.

In an attempt to keep his story's myriad players clear, Najafi provides a constant barrage of on - screen text denoting names, ranks, places and times — laughable gestures in light of the gleeful chaos indulged in by «London Has Fallen.»

The screenplay (written by Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki, and director Christopher Landon) is an exercise in sophomoric humor and a gleeful approach to violence, blood, and gore.

By the time Barry, in his gleeful voiceover narration, says, «The money was coming in faster than I could launder it,» I felt like I'd seen this all before, and better.

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.

Here is government in all its roisterous hurly - burly, that portion of the film presided over by Tommy Lee Jones in gleeful, scene - stealing form.

Or blame it on Arthur, Franz, and Odile's gleeful race through the Louvre in an attempt to break the world record (held by an American, of course) for the quickest visit ever.

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.

Director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman (previous collaborators on Stardust) embrace Millar's gleeful disinterest in political correctness (in fact, the film was developed side by side with the initial run of six comic - book issues, a new precedent in comic - book movies).

Originally staged on Broadway in 1987, this musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a gleeful mash - up of fairy tales that continues on past the «happily ever after», eventually turning rather dark and emotional.

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.

It holds an 84 % rating at Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus being, «Though it threatens to buckle under the weight of its meta gags, Deadpool 2 is a gory, gleeful lampoon of the superhero genre buoyed by Ryan Reynolds» undeniable charm.»

by Walter Chaw There is a palpable, undeniable perversity to Quentin Tarantino's fourth feature film, a taste for the extreme so gleeful and smart that its references are homage and its puerility virtue.

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.

The book it was based on, written by Brian Garfield and published in 1972, takes a different path — same liberal character whose wife and daughter are attacked, but his path to vigilantism results in a far more thoughtful examination of justice (and the movie's gleeful violence so upset Garfield that he wrote Death Sentence as penance).

Unlike the majority of dating sims, the object of Shinobi Refle isn't so much to court Asuka, but to help her regain that «lost touch» as stated by Honey ∞ Parade Games; the player must restore a melancholic Asuka to her usual gleeful self through a series of roleplay scenarios, including that of a J - Pop Idol, school tutor, or the series» standard shinobi - in - training.

They're not bad or malformed, but pure, simple, and gleeful: tools untouched by the weight of the outside world.

As much as I dislike condemningan entire genre, the FPS always seems to suggest by its very nature (a game where you shoot things) that some group of people must die, and from there its only a quick injection of some half - baked ideology or another to justify gleeful mass murder.

In other words, by playing to min / max rather than playing by engaging with the story on its own terms: «At that point, the game had ceased to be anything except the gleeful abuse of a system that was clearly unprepared for aggressive extremes.»

The gleeful fun of the early stages is let down by the game's less than inspired later stages and its brevity.

If the work's adult viewers responded by huddling together, their children were happy to plunge into the eye of Atlas's storm, hurtling through the forest of legs and slapping the walls with gleeful disregard for its fresh paint job.

«The photograph is emphatically interrupted by the sweep of a brushstroke that reveals a glimpse of another picture — gleeful in its ability to show us more than initially meets the eye.»

However, it is the third cover choice I wish to address here, a b / w drawing by artist, activist, satirist and draftsman William Powhida, executed in full caricature / agitprop mode (and pictured above), in which he addresses cronyism at the New Museum in gleeful, graphic, subversive detail.

«Publicity - grabbing stunts are refreshingly absent,» claimed Ben Hoyle in The Times, forgetting that any such «publicity stunts» are overwhelmingly orchestrated outside of the shortlist by feeble self - styled mavericks the Stuckists, hopped up on the gleeful idiocy of the tabloid press.

I did not even go back and look at Watt's comments, but I generally think that lots of people are too gleeful when suspected criminals, who are innocent before the law, are gunned down by police.

While recent headlines about the woes of U.N. - led efforts to assemble a comprehensive picture of the science have caused gleeful headlines on The Drudge Report and other skeptical media outlets, the vast weight of the evidence — from melting glaciers to warming oceans to satellite temperature readings, and much more — still points to a changing climate caused by human activity.