| In spite of their bright, arcade-game gleefulness, Palladino's works are disturbed by undertones of violence. |
| The compulsory gleefulness of these disruptions compromises and even contradicts the serious tone of his work and even changes its message. |
| Her face changed from gleefulness to shock as she saw the woman yelling for help. |
| Her gleefulness felt genuine — endearing, even — but her politicking, limp. |
| Even at its most despairing, her writing has a gleefulness that makes the reader feel she's having fun. |
| Anglicanism, it thinks it can win errant sheep back to the fold with entertainment, comfy chairs, informality and glued-on gleefulness at our wondrous world. |
