Word: gleeful
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...gleeful exclamation of 65-year-old Desiree, a recent immigrant from Haiti, when she finally comprehended the term. Native English speakers take the words "broom," "sweep," "dishes" and "hammer" for granted. These brand new vocabulary words and phrases will be of critical importance to newly arrived low-income Americans, as they struggle to understand help-wanted advertisements, American shopping malls and even soap operas...
...Instinct to Dangerous Creatures, look childish next to the sophisticated eroticism of Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which was withdrawn from theaters in England...
This is the context that already last spring, led us at the World Economic Forum to make responsible globality the theme of this year's annual meeting in Davos. Of course there have been a lot of comments--gleeful or disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
Martin Amis' Heavy Water and Other Stories (Harmony Books; 208 pages; $21) is a collection of nine short fictions, wildly diverse but related by a gleeful misanthropy that has made the British author one of the most unlikable satirists of his generation. And one of the funniest...
Last Thursday a Republican Senator went before the cameras to denounce Democratic leader Tom Daschle's proposal for handling impeachment witnesses. Gleeful, the Senator crowed, "It is perhaps accurate for Senator Gramm and myself to describe the Daschle proposal as being Sex, Lies and No Videotape. Now we want the videotape. And this resolution will...