Opponents of this government said it would happen – and it's all too easy to smirk with we-told-you-so glee.
Shane Watson was unable to hide Australia's glee at a rare selection gamble by England that backfired horribly on the first day of the fifth Ashes Test.
It has led, perhaps understandably, to a quiet sense of glee from Labour, the party with most to fear from the Green resurgence.
He recounts with glee a story about Billy Elliot's test screenings in the US, in mall-multiplex country.
Anecdotes to illustrate the point keep tumbling out, delivered with exuberant glee.
Even such glee can sour almost overnight, however, and it is legitimate to suggest that, if Celtic are eliminated from the Scottish Cup at Dunfermline this afternoon, his future in his present position will be seriously threatened.
Even the less profitable companies have reported the sort of results that make share-holders rub their hands with glee.
Halfway through the evening, after many glasses of red and some fresh seafood, he leaned across the table to his agent and declared with glee: "We're bloody winning, aren't we?" Advisers on Team Farage were pleased and surprised by the exuberant St George's Day kneesup – a virtual victory party.
German artist Höller, who originally trained as an agricultural scientist, is renowned for turning art galleries into playgrounds full of adults and children, making them shriek with glee and occasionally terror.
If I do, then if I say or do something stupid, there is glee and sarcasm: "And you're a member of Mensa?" At primary school I was fast-tracked a couple of years, which seemed like fun, until I ended up as a 12-year-old brat in a class of cool teenagers, who ignored or bullied me.
A Demontage is conspicuous, a very public destruction of an important person's image and status, and it implies an element of glee, lust even.
