Such hybridity in the affairs of humankind might well gladden the heart of a historian in the grip of post-modernism.
No object of symbolic exchange could be more deserving or gladdened.
I have read no speech of recent years which has gladdened my heart more than that.
It gladdens my heart to know that the figure which in 1946 was as high as 12,800 has been so greatly reduced.
Anything that gets rid of even a few pages of the published subordinate legislation that is passed in any year gladdens my heart.
The thing which gladdens me is the virtual disappearance of miners' nystagmus.
I was gladdened by the announcement of further assistance for students of dance and drama to help with maintenance costs.
Concerned as it is to stimulate the economy of the borrowing country, it is not inhibited—and this gladdens.
