Sentences with phrase «taking gleeful»

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.

In the end, I take some gleeful comfort in knowing one retirement option is a 9 mm to the head, when I'm done and ready to transfer my energy and give back to the soil.

The third act puts her through the gamut and almost takes a gleeful joy in her suffering, culminating with an atrocious beating captured in blistering close - up.

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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?

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.

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.

Beyond a consistent willingness, or even gleeful propensity, to take calculated risks in his professional and personal life, Brown remains something of an enigma.

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.

His latest thunders into town like an angel of vengeance, spinning the tale of a warring Moscow couple so immersed in their own gleeful drama that it takes a full two days before they realise that their 12 - year - old son has absconded.

Despite the gleeful atmosphere, director Andy Tennant (Ever After) fails to provide C. Jay Cox's screenplay with quite enough edge and many scenes feel stale and tiresome, and the movie eventually takes the easy way out.

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

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 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).

Wolfy offers his blood - soaked take on the Diablo 3 Necromancer closed beta and finds a class that triggers a sense of gleeful gaming bloodlust.

Aside from gleeful expressions of unbridled end - of - the - world greed, however, the last day was mostly about taking time to enjoy the environments and missions that players have loved through the past few years.

It took artists decades to slough off the self - seriousness of Abstract Expressionism, and Baker is gleeful with her paint.

You have to be a miserabilist — and I admit I am a sucker for art's bleaker regions — not to take pleasure in Rist's warm baths of light and nature, her sunny uplands and repeated underwater rebirthings, her swoony songs and gleeful mischievousness.

In this article, I'll discuss the myth around benchmarking, its impact on an outsourcing agreement, what I take to be benchmarking's proper role, and I'll endeavor to do it all with the same «gleeful curiosity and plain old - fashioned ingenuity» that the hosts of Mythbusters are described by the Discovery Channel as possessing.

Wind the clock back to 2013 and the Pebble smartwatch was taking the fledging wearable market by storm, bringing notifications to the wrists of gleeful iPhone users.