It was easy to hope, as New Yorkers' usual street faces dissipated into unguarded expressions of glee, and strangers squeezed each other's palms, that some heavy thing had begun to crack.
This girl is on her own, conceivably sober, in a photo booth, pulling these abstract expressions of glee, and nobody thought it looked weird or unconvincing.
Harry Reichenbach, a public relations specialist, wrote in his 1931 book, "Phantom Fame," that, on behalf of Braun & Company, he had tricked Comstock by placing the print in the store's window and then repeatedly complaining to Comstock, even hiring a group of youngsters who stood in front of the building "uttering expressions of unholy glee".
Just before he blows up Candieland, the film's symbol of slavery's depredations, the camera zooms to Brunhilda's face wearing an expression of childish glee, her fingers stuck into her ears.
Clarkson, his expression oscillating between glee and terror, bellows "CRIKEY!" or somesuch.
Sylvester's self-righteous disdain for the meek and mopey is the perfect antidote to the earnest self-expression that defines Glee club.
Describing the words on the album as an expression of "idiot glee", Eno and Schmidt eventually expanded the Oblique Strategies set to over 100 "worthwhile dilemmas", which would be used in nearly all his future recordings and productions.
The young boy got up close to the sculpture and, with an expression of joy and glee, he clapped his hands, laughed and danced around with unrestrained happiness.
Some of Weegee's photographs -- "The Critic," for example, in which an impoverished woman looks contemptuously at two grandes dames about to attend the opera, or "Their First Murder," which shows a small knot of people, staring, with expressions ranging from grief to glee, at a murder victim -- are familiar even to those who are not students of photography.
Their facial expressions were out of control: a blend of anxiety, glee, schadenfreude, horror, and genuine confusion.
