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And while metropolitan hipsters sneer at dweebs, rednecks and "bros" donning UV facepaint and throwing shapes at commercial festivals, Moore is overjoyed to witness their thrill of discovery.
For all that Didier Deschamps would have felt overjoyed to be given the bumps in the centre circle by his players and staff come the triumphant final whistle against Ukraine, the coach knows that standards are below the level he experienced in that very arena, with that same 3-0 scoreline, as a World Cup winning captain.
Most of the older women had never been in an art gallery before and they seemed genuinely overjoyed by the sight of their portraits on the wall.
But few imagine that Abdullah's sons, or for that matter Muhammad bin Salman's elder brothers, are overjoyed with the way the succession has been rearranged.
The Iraqis who struggled to rebuild Baghdad's bridges, museums and shrines after the last Gulf war are not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of seeing them knocked down again.Even the president's dozen-odd, rubble-bound palaces evoke pangs of regret.
Not all the staff and students are overjoyed to be experimented on.
Mr Wales has no illusions about taking on the search juggernaut that is Google and says that "we would be overjoyed to get 5% of the search market," which would still be worth a fortune in advertising revenues (Google, meanwhile, is moving onto Wikipedia's turf with a new project called Knol).So far Wikia's search results are embarrassingly poor, as reviewers have noted.
The banks were not overjoyed , because this in effect did away with banking secrecy in such cases, but it proved to be a turning point.
Even so most people were overjoyed last February when the generals, responding to weeks of massive protests, stepped out from behind their veil, fired the president-for-life, Hosni Mubarak, sent his rubber-stamp parliament packing and promised a swift transition to proper democracy.Yet during the eight months since the revolution Egypt's new rulers have steadily lost goodwill.
As the new chief executive, he says he will try to move into high-margin services, and will consider tweaking the sacred direct-sales model.Pundits and investors are overjoyed.
What is certain is that they will be overjoyed if later this year Chinese "taikonauts"—including the country's first female astronaut travel to the Tiangong-1 space module, practising the techniques which eventually will establish a permanent Chinese outpost in Earth orbit.
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