Sentence examples for gleeful expectation from inspiring English sources

Indeed, there is gleeful expectation among some of the train's riders and advocates, from blogs ("Is the G an F?") to civic groups, who, with regard to the line's pending grade, are generally hoping for the worst.

I'd waited with gleeful anticipation to come here.

Environmental lobbyists who arrived here last week with low expectations were almost gleeful Saturday at the prospect of finishing the treaty text despite the lack of cooperation by the United States.

It began with the comparison of the looks of Paula Broadwell, his lover, and Holly Petraeus, his wife, who are twenty years apart in age — as if older women could have no expectation of fidelity — and an almost gleeful cataloging of Broadwell's wardrobe, body, and, as a Petraeus associate put it anonymously, the "claws" that she got into the General.

But she confounded the expectations of veteran correspondent Fergal Keane with a gleeful description of the perilous journey.

Page 58 Magazine GLEEFUL!

They're gleeful.

More gleeful".

Córdoba was gleeful.

The functionary was gleeful.

Gleeful outrage ensued.