gleefulness

Example Sentences

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Davies’ means of fighting the good fight is to preserve the gleefulness in the message.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

Yet there’s a gleefulness in watching the British realise the ineptitude of their own politicians.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2019

An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2019

But ultimately “Denial’ works, thanks to its strong cast — particularly Spall, who gives Irving a slightly mad gleefulness, and Weisz, whose smart, tough Deborah chafes against the quiet acquiescence expected of her.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2016

The warrior became a child, living again the life of a child with all the spontaneous gleefulness of a child.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth