Sentences with phrase «rather gleeful»

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.

The spotlight on the strife within the Assembly has made Senate Republicans rather gleeful the spotlight on redistricting, often negative, is shifting to the Democrats.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

And all of the actors invest a gleeful energy that makes it sometimes rather hyperactive, but also a lot of fun.

But that mix is what makes it work — a chamber piece is fun enough, but when other genres start to enter with gleeful insanity, it (mostly) adds an another dimension rather than throwing the viewer.

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.»