Sentence examples for as gleeful from inspiring English sources

Lincoln's northern enemies, members of the northern Democratic Party and their families, were just as gleeful as Confederates.

He turns as gleeful as a child when displaying his just-completed stage designs.

I am as gleeful as an 8-year-old let loose in a candy store.

He hated to admit how giddy he was—almost as gleeful as Archie Stetter had been about the number of meaningful correlations the analysts had turned up.

I'll be as gleeful as anyone if the excesses and vulgarities of the past decade really do turn out to be over.

Brian Lara had chosen to take first knock on a good pitch but England's fast bowlers looked as gleeful as children on a bouncy castle.

Some jokes (the nanny's bra-lessness) you could hear falling flat, and the reaction to Liza Minnelli doing Beyoncé wasn't as raucously gleeful as the producers (or Liza) might have hoped.

"Show Me Love" also includes contributions from singer/songwriter Moses Sumney, and, yeah, the results are just as blindingly gleeful as you might expect.

It tried to show us something as innocent and gleeful as an animal on a trampoline, in a bid to remind us that there's still some good left in the world.

On tracks such as Rap Niggas and Last Time That I Checc'd (where he's joined by fellow LA revivalist YG) his brags rasp as hoarse and righteous as a man in the middle of a three-day bender, riding beats built from oozing bass swagger and slinking Compton synths, as brash and gleeful as peak-era NWA.

The Wall Street Journals Joe Morgenstern enthusiastically praised both the song and the sequence, hailing the latter as "magical" while describing "Happy Working Song" as a "gleeful variation on the theme of 'Whistle While You Work'".