Huld, stiff, angry, but with something behind the anger-a kind of gleefulness?

Then comes a moment of gleefulness.

Or exposed such darkness with such gleefulness?

Beattie eventually loses some of the gleefulness that animated her skewering; the works of the mature writer feel, on the whole, less fresh.

The Sun reported that the British Stammering Association had branded the sketch as "a gross and disgusting gleefulness at pointing out someone else's misfortune".

Stacy Keach leaps into the role of "Richard III" with diabolical delight and the gleefulness of an actor who knows he has a captive audience.

The pastor of Grace Episcopal Church along 12th Street reported that he saw a "gleefulness in throwing stuff and getting stuff out of buildings"Fine, Sidney.

"Chase him to Baghdad," Arley Hagen, a construction worker in a coffee shop in the Rocky Mountain foothills, said with more than a hint of gleefulness.

Such aggressive gleefulness in the administration of emotional pain, such inexplicable bitterness revealed Datura's perfect face to be not just a contrast to her nature but in fact a mask.

Gleefulness is the motif running through the image-packed drawings from "In the Night Kitchen," about a boy's odyssey through a New York skyline transformed into a surreal baker's pantry.

Ah yes, the woes of earlier decades as compared to the gleefulness of the 80's (at least if you were white, in collar and skin tone), purely something tied directly to the president's of those times...

I don't think I'm allowed to quote his best lines, but the lyrics to "Walk This Way," for instance, are imbued with a smutty gleefulness that's just about irresistible to anyone who remembers the feeling of raging hormones.

Even at its blackest, truly devastating social satire - you think of Evelyn Waugh's "Loved One" - has a certain gleefulness about it: if you really disdain those awful people and their empty pretensions, you can't help enjoying impaling them on their own vanities.