Sentences with phrase «own gleeful»

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.

But I won't pretend I wasn't gleeful the day I finally let him know that I was leaving and it was because of him.

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advantages their service will have, with the press release asking viewers if they're tired «of endless scrolling» or «outdated series» — clear digs at Netflix.

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

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.

In a company update announcing Moghadam's resignation, co-founder Tom Lehman wrote that «gleeful insensitivity and misogyny» were not a part of RapGenius» bro - code.

So I went on a gleeful crusade, clicking «Hide Post» on every video that crept onto my News Feed.

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.

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.

Soft spoken computer scientist Adam Back, one of the most important figures in the technical history of Bitcoin, had a hard act to follow after Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert burned down the stage presenting their gleeful and anarchic brand of Bitcoin - boosting.

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.

It certainly doesn't mean that we are gleeful about the deaths of Texas inmates.

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.

Sometimes they are just better off in their gleeful bliss than they could ever be in reality.

I hope that Thomas F. Madden will forgive me for not joining in his gleeful reassessment of the Crusades.

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.

On Facebook and Twitter, reactions ranged from gleeful jokes, to political barbs, to conspiracy theories, to patriotism, to pleas for peace, to solemn reflections.

The rooster manages to be so gleeful in the morning because his brain is the size of a pea.

With gleeful people walking about the streets of Johannesburg or stumbling merrily over the ruins of Belfast, I, like Auden, am glad that it is still possible to be unhappy.

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

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

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.

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.

Every critic knows that John Updike was a gleeful child of his age, but did he rise above it?

and finds it offering words like spirited, sprightly, lively, merry, mirthful, vivacious, exuberant, joyful, and gleeful.

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.

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

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?

Let them enjoy their ephemeral gleeful conceit.

During this brief time of transformation, a sex - and - espionage scandal called the Profumo affair accelerated the collapse, amid gleeful ridicule, of all that was left of Britain's Victorian establishment.

He said: «We are on the verge of trashing our global name and brand in an act of self - mutilation that will leave our international rivals stunned, gleeful and discreetly scornful».

Mike Judge's comedy Silicon Valley takes on the often self - serious world of big tech business, start - up culture and moonshot thinking with gleeful irreverence and sharp parody.

Both were thoughtful, relatively charitable articles, but I was disheartened to see my Facebook and Twitter feeds light up with gleeful jeers from conservative evangelicals essentially saying, «let the liberals die!»

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

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.

I have worked with many fundamentalist evangelical cult followers who feel gleeful any time they imagine someone going to hell.

Imagine my surprise, then, upon my gleeful return, when I found the public library much changed.

Advent puts the wonderful, absurd and scandalous message of Christmas — that God has moved into the neighborhood — in the context of a larger story that begins not with the gleeful singing of angels but with the groaning of slaves and exiles.

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.

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.

On any other Friday we hear the gleeful exclamation of «TGIF.»

Please don't change anything about your site... it's what makes me so gleeful when I pull my (now famous) peanut butter cookies out of the oven and proudly exclaim «They're Deb's recipe!».

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.

While making the salad, Betty and Mindy were positively gleeful just thinking about the finished product and couldn't wait for their first nibble — like they were making something chocolaty, not dark green.

While making the salad, Betty and Mindy were positively gleeful just thinking -LSB-...]

Yes, the magical season of deer hunting is upon us, and the boy is walking around with the same gleeful, giddy smile that I carry all holiday season... so it's like I get it.