He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble.
Party boss Mitchell McLaughlin rubs his hands in gleeful speculation on the significances of a statistical forecast that Catholics will be in an NI majority within two decades.
In honour of Verdi's and Shakespeare's "globe of impurity", the magnificently gluttonous Sir John Falstaff (sung and acted with brilliant, gleeful energy and insight by Johanthan Veira), I enjoyed a San Miguel during act two's shenanigans, as Ford and the Merry Wives end up dumping Sir John in the Thames.
"Marriage works," wrote the gleeful Scot on the courtside camera moments after Nadal had sent yet another woeful forehand into the bottom of the net on match point.
Gleeful Israeli soldiers say that their co-ordination with their Egyptian counterparts at the border is better than under Hosni Mubarak's old regime.In desperation, some Hamas men are looking to Israel to let Gaza freely export its produce, reopen its port, and allow its businessmen and labourers to cross the buffer zone, as they did before Hamas took over in 2007.
Though British Conservatives are less gleeful about the euro crisis than they were a year ago, a sense of vindication informs talk of European irrelevance.That threatens their sense of perspective.
The effect is gleeful, even a touch surreal, which is apt given that these spot paintings are all named after drugs.The centrepiece of this show is the artist's notorious diamond skull, "For the Love of God".
But it is now enmeshed in what its gleeful opponents are calling the biggest scandal in modern Canadian history.
In fact, there has been a curiously gleeful tone to much of the European public's reception of America's spying on their leaders.
The public is solidly in favour of the cards (though support slips when people are told they will have to pay extra for them), and many Labour MPs are gleeful at having forced their opponents on to what they are sure is the wrong side of the argument.
In reality, the Duma's obstruction would be motivated largely by the gleeful prospect of disorder.Then what?
