gladdening

The animated series pitches Aang’s refusal to entirely abandon his innocence as a gladdening luxury in a world ravaged by war.

And you would be glad, though gladdening this opera is not, to hear a performance as strong as Monday’s in any major house.

Lenton and Wilson, with a combined age of 130, were perhaps the most gladdening of the successes.

The brilliant and gladdening “Six: The Musical” thumbs its fetching nose at Tudor England’s old boys network and reserves a few blissfully scornful finger-wags for our own.

Although it has never been short of critical acclaim, it has rarely drawn large audiences — though Friday was a gladdening, if not a lucrative, exception.