He seemed almost gleeful that his party had lost their majority.
The convicts celebrate with gleeful choruses each fresh humiliation she undergoes.
The passage insinuates that the halls themselves are nothing less than a gleeful theatricalization of public space.
The venerable tradition of the bedtime story, a story intended to soothe anxieties and ease young children into sleep, is discarded with gleeful panache.
One should not be gleeful at private grief.
I am not in the least gleeful about these things.