But it is also about mood: a mood of gleeful anarchy, irrepressible mischief and, when England are the victims, doing it for Ian Botham's mother-in-law.
But the mood is antic, even gleeful, and one suspects definite targets, specifically the muddy Sturm und Drang of the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum.
Brett did the character as a near parody of Rathbone: Rathbone on steroids, louder, quirkier, more volatile, gloomier in his dark moods and more insanely gleeful in his pursuit of villains.
Usually Finns are gleeful this time of year, but the mood now is sober.
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 15 — The mood here in Syria's capital was defiant, even gleeful, on Saturday as Hezbollah continued its rocket attacks on northern Israel.
But it would not be an overstatement to describe the mood among Saint Laurent's crowd, just after the show, as gleeful.
William's mood, and Anders's, too, which initially seemed like excitement, had surpassed excitement, and even gleeful jitteriness, to become real fear.
My editors and your boss have every right to take our brilliant ideas and beautifully crafted arguments and 1) make fun of them, or us, with gleeful abandon and 2) dropkick us from the premises on their account, if they're in the mood.
The most recent was in 1952, when, I'd imagine, Kaufman's gleeful cynicism about affairs of the heart and affairs national was fatally out of step with the country's mood.
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