Sentence examples for gleeful portrait from inspiring English sources
"Domesticated" aspires to be not so much a gleeful portrait of sex and the married politician, like the novel and movie "Primary Colors," but an atavistic battle of the sexes, like Strindberg's "Dance of Death".
True, Mr. Shepard uses his family portrait to practice some gleeful marksmanship with such familiar targets as Hollywood deal-making and the dime store illusions bred by the movies.
Mr. Levine burst onto the American art scene in 1937 with a scathing triple portrait remarkable for its bravura brushwork and gleeful vitriol.
My reaction was reflexive and gleeful: "Joe DiMaggio was watching me?" So there you have it: a portrait of my ego as a big black dog.
If "Man and Boy" is a disguised portrait of self-loathing, there's nothing hidden about Adam Rapp's gleeful disgust in "Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling" (directed by Neil Pepe, for the Atlantic Theatre Company, at the Classic Stage Company).
Mr. Darin's Marcos is every inch the swaggering Mephistophelean tutor in gleeful larceny while Mr. Pauls's Juan blends equal measures of animal cunning and naïveté into his portrait of a gifted novice in these games.
In his portrait of Foster Morris, an established author who helps him generously and then mortally offends him, Naipaul vents with gleeful malice his feelings toward the grip of British attitudes, not only on his country but also on his own divided nature.
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