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the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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The slaughterers, still spattered with blood, made gleeful boasts about their atrocities that were broadcast horrific videos and quoted in news articles.
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Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
Rolling millennials’ gleeful reception toward the seven-foot-tall ogre is nothing less than a testament to the indefatigability of the Shrek franchise itself.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
No disrespect to Barbie, but this is a much sharper depiction of a woman rejecting patriarchal dogma and reshaping her own destiny, and Stone hurls herself into that reinvention with a gleeful abandon that’s exhilarating.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
Through tears – and adorably delirious and gleeful laughter – Kennedy is awestruck, swaying back and forth to the beat of the song in disbelief.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Regardless of which team emerges victorious at the end of May, the two to fall short will be subject to the cruelest form of autopsy, a sustained and gleeful search for whatever shortcomings can be found.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The legalizations of vices can be followed by gleeful oversaturation, and that period of chaos and moral myopia may obscure what is good about letting people openly engage in something that was previously hidden.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
His gleeful, prickly cinema offers a jolting remedy.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
Rolling millennials’ gleeful reception toward the seven-foot-tall ogre is nothing less than a testament to the indefatigability of the Shrek franchise itself.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
No disrespect to Barbie, but this is a much sharper depiction of a woman rejecting patriarchal dogma and reshaping her own destiny, and Stone hurls herself into that reinvention with a gleeful abandon that’s exhilarating.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
Through tears – and adorably delirious and gleeful laughter – Kennedy is awestruck, swaying back and forth to the beat of the song in disbelief.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Regardless of which team emerges victorious at the end of May, the two to fall short will be subject to the cruelest form of autopsy, a sustained and gleeful search for whatever shortcomings can be found.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The legalizations of vices can be followed by gleeful oversaturation, and that period of chaos and moral myopia may obscure what is good about letting people openly engage in something that was previously hidden.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
His gleeful, prickly cinema offers a jolting remedy.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Gleeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gleeful. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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