Sentences with phrase «gleeful at»

«Really weird and upsetting to see folks acting gleeful at the Don Jr. divorce news.

«Really weird and upsetting to see folks acting gleeful at the Don Jr. -LSB-...]

They were gleeful at any sign of Bitcoin's impending triumph over the financial system, enraged by any show of incompetence or malice by the government or big banks.

Anselm Kiefer's Walhalla was so laden with images of modern history's most nightmarish moments that it was perversely thrilling, even sardonically gleeful at the spectacle of everything coming to a catastrophic climax.

We have loved traveling as a family for the last 19 years, but our schedule always revolved around the school calendar, and we were rather gleeful at the idea of traveling in the off season.

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.

But some national Republicans were gleeful at the allegations.

Senate Democrats are gleeful at this development, especially for Golden, who has been an elusive, but perennial target for flipping his Brooklyn seat.

Against Reading yesterday, most of St. Andrews seemed far more gleeful at the prospect of Aston Villa dropping a division than their authoritative and impressive victory over the champions — and therein lies a clue to the mediocrity of the last half century — clubs that measure themselves against A. N.

You seem positively gleeful at the thought of destruction and death.

But Brian was supportive, shooed me out the door, the tinies gleeful at the prospect of a day with their dad all to themselves.

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.

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advantages their service will have, with the press release asking viewers if they're tired «of endless scrolling» or «outdated series» — clear digs at Netflix.

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.

With everyone ordered to be happy in the new Cuba and gleeful revolutionaries in Nicaragua, it should be great, at last, to have the stuffy old church out of the way so that it no longer can smear ashes on our foreheads on Wednesday or make us trudge up a hill behind a Jew on Friday.

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

But the sharp declines of the world's stock markets during the fall of 2008 spurred gleeful boasts among the previously dormant socialists in America and Europe that the «end of laissez - faire capitalism» had at last arrived — again.

No longer working for Froben, he had taken service with the Archbishop of Mainz and sent Luther a long letter in December giving him a gleeful account of the cynical reception at Court of satires on the Roman party, and jokes about Aleander and his bonfires.

Nope, impossible!!!! I MUST feel gleeful when saying / looking at / drooling over / staring longingly at this feat of unicorn greatness.?

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.

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

Others were more outwardly gleeful, including Queens Sen. James Sanders, a supporting of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.

I never feel like I find anything amazing at the thrift store... but then again I was gleeful over a beaded vintage clutch I found the other day.

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.

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.

Johnston has mentioned the USO show is his favorite part of the movie, and it's not hard to see why — it's hilarious (though quite pointedly never at the expense of Cap) and is a gleeful throwback to the gung - ho American propaganda of the era.

Anyone who has come to revel in his strangled vowels and facial contortions will appreciate the full - bore mimicry on display here, which explodes at times into gleeful caricature and doesn't stint on the greatest hits.

Cannes 2018: Lars von Trier's gleeful look at a sadistic killer is actually boring when it isn't grossing you out

Lean and lively, he's at the peak of his powers, from rubber - faced histrionics and flailing pratfalls to gleeful sarcasm and dead - on impersonations.

Whether taking gleeful potshots at Donald Trump and the second season of True Detective, traipsing gamely through the musical tribute to binge - watching that opened the show, or revealing his HBO Now login and password to the public (it actually worked, at least for a bit), the Brooklyn Nine - Nine star was the best Emmys host in years.

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.

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.

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.

Phoebe Waller - Bridge sounds simultaneously gleeful and mildly horrified that anyone would sit through her painful, painfully hilarious British TV series Fleabag in a single sitting; it's the sort of response that you could picture her character punctuating with a conspiratorial look at the camera, widening her eyes and grinning.

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.»

At one point, Donna goes in for a kiss but then pushes away to execute a gleeful dance move.

Sure, at first the process is all unicorns and moonbeams: the giddy anticipation of what the new sweetheart will be, the breathless reading and re-reading of AUTOMOBILE reviews, the gleeful hours poring over stats and photos on websites and glossy sales brochures (an audio system with only 12 speakers and 1,500 watts?

When you're at the wheel of the 2016 Honda Accord Coupe, you're going to appreciate the V6 engine (optional) that powers you down the road with a gleeful smile.

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!

This is just one of the many times Jane has worked with K9s For Warriors, and it looks like her Gleeful celeb - status has helped raise at least $ 145,000 so far, which is enough to pair up 15 service members with doggies!!

You just threw them off their game, and instead of feeling gleeful about it & leaving it at that, you press it and come off as a bit dishraggy -LRB-?).

Molyneux's excitement at the potential of his own ideas often over-spills into the dictaphones of gleeful journalists - to the dismay of the developers who work under the legendary British designer.

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.»

It's ridiculously massive, 80 feet tall, and if it's meant to reduce Frieze's elegant bivouac to a doghouse, it is also a finger in the eye for Jeff Koons — the gleeful American artist who opened duelling retrospectives at the two largest galleries in New York this week.

Like the place itself, the magazine is an eye - opener, introducing art as sharply incisive as we might find anywhere, all with a freshness that suggests an inner freedom — or, at least, gleeful abandon.

How we used to lather at the mouth when we noticed how the Chapman Brothers had defaced Goya's prints with such gleeful, cheeky - chappy wantonness!

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.

While Frank Stella's oversized protractor paintings are about as cheery as a greeter at a second - tier Las Vegas casino, Scheibitz's paintings and sculptures are sinisterly gleeful, an unlikely synthesis of Willie Wonka's chocolate factory and Dr. Frankenstein's castle.

The persistent popularity, among artists at least, of model - in - the - studio paintings, is not only a matter of the popularity of the nude (particularly the female one), or of the gleeful indulgence of sexual fantasies about the bohemian artistic life.

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.