"express gladness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is usually used as an imperative verb, suggesting to express joy or cheerfulness. For example: "Let us express gladness at the reunion of our friends."
Should your nearest and dearest be having a terrible time at the moment in cases they cannot help - as there are many in the world who are struggling and live in challenging times - then express gladness and appreciation for the good times they have had and wish them good health and happiness for the present and future.
They might be co-workers, your grocers, doctors, neighbours, friendly acquaintances etc. Express gladness if you are aware they have had success or some good fortune recently and express gratitude that they are well and happy, or like with your close relatives and friends, if they are having difficulties wish them success in the future and express joy for the good times that they have had.
Milton Eisenhower expressed gladness that his brother "did not live to see the things [Nixon] did" toward the end of his time in the White House, and Frank finds it "natural to wonder whether Watergate and all of its tributaries would ever have materialized if the patriarch had lived beyond the first two months of the Nixon presidency".
OVER an abstract watercolour that hints at a setting sun, a Hallmark card expresses gladness that "our paths came together in this life" and vows: "You're in some of the best memories I have and you always will be".
Then take a moment to express appreciation and gladness that this is the case, as any of these things can be lost all too easily.
Show gladness and gratitude.
What is it about some people that they seem to carry a kind of moral gladness with them?
In Arlington, we see Isla gliding round the floor to a version of Baby, I Love You with an imagined partner and there is a long, wordless, central section in which Oona Doherty, to Emma Martin's choreography and Teho Teardo's music, expresses through movement the fury, frustration, grief and occasional gladness of the incarcerated.
In the Christian community it was an expression of praise and a foretaste of eternal gladness.
His happy expression suggests that his prayer for "a good life, combined with health, gladness and rejoicing every day" inscribed on the base had been fulfilled.
There's a gladness enough in this.
