Mr Ahmadinejad has tirelessly toured Iran's impoverished and neglected remoter provinces, snipping ribbons, laying foundation stones and fielding petitions from clamouring crowds, with flattering television cameras perpetually in tow.But his gleeful emptying of state coffers has also made inflation surge.
The controlled, gleeful anarchy of NoFit State shows is always welcome – as is the commitment to taking a rather glorious circus to locations other theatre companies might bypass.
Two French families ran out of the hut in a state of gleeful enchantment, petted the llamas, quizzed their drovers, and manically photographed both species together and separately.
In this brilliant jazz-flavored show tune, which Ms. Mayes turns into a comic showstopper, she is a New York real estate agent whose lunch-hour sexual interludes with a building superintendent keep her in state of gleeful joy.
" 'Because it's stupid to go this far for something that is going to get so few eyeballs on it.' " The set — if it could be called that — of "Bad Grandpa" was in a state of gleeful chaos when I visited.
Sinden on the back foot, exposed and flummoxed in comedy, was one of the sights of the age; his great jowls would sag in a mask of stricken gravity, his eyes fixed wide open, and he would rake the stalls with baleful stares, reducing his audience to a state of gleeful hysteria.
The state Democratic Party appeared gleeful about the news.
But now, at the helm of the UK's Culture department is John Whittingdale, the MP for Maldon, after being promoted to Secretary of State in David Cameron's gleeful reshuffle yesterday.
A third is a news report stating, "Democratic officials are gleeful and called her an ultra right wing extremist".
Accustomed to being ignored in an overwhelmingly Republican state, Democratic officials here were gleeful that both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton were campaigning heavily a day before the caucuses.
Even in the celebratory moments after his nomination, the reality of politics intruded: State Senate leaders seemed almost gleeful in saying that Mr. Walder had little chance of being confirmed in an expeditious manner.
