I can tell you a little secret weapon I have for keeping myself inspired and ever-so-slightly gleeful on a doldrum-ish day.
Having given an assurance that all the women in question had since married into grand Scottish families, Clark retreated to his office and stole a glance at Jenny: "Her eyes seemed slightly slit, malevolently gleeful".
In a set that stretched until after 3 a.m., he often improvised nonsense words and slightly naughty rhymes like a gleeful schoolchild, pausing between songs to sip honey out of a plastic bear.
"Had you been standing here with us, you would have seen the same preventable tragedies occurring over and over". The tone is maliciously gleeful, and the authors have slightly too much fun with their spoof "examples", but it is all wrapped around some very sound advice for the wannabe novelist.
Often, he appears as gleeful as you that this slightly pudgy bloke from Hillingdon is sitting next to say, Jennifer Lopez.
Just as he caught himself about to complain ever so slightly about his day job, his face turned gleeful.
Modern visitors may find the endless, gleeful celebration of Duke Carlo Emanuele's blood sport of choice slightly troubling; after all, Venaria's name comes from the Latin venatio, for hunting.
Charles, who died last week at the age of 81, was a serious man, but gleeful, and all the more so because he was just slightly unaware of how amusing he could be.
Still, retailing is, after all, the business of selling, so this year, the stores seemed positively gleeful over rather pathetic increases from last year; October sales were up slightly, because the colder weather sent shoppers scurrying for coats and jackets.
