What's the difference between gleefulness and hilarity?
Gleefulness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(2) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
(3) That said, a year or two ago I watched Pappy’s gleeful sketches (on a stage about a mile away) at Latitude and it seemed like something stretching back to music hall.
(4) Yet for anyone who has woken up in the early hours worried and scared by Trump, this gleeful display of sheer satisfaction with life may seem a bit rich.
(5) The original Sharknado (tagline: “Enough said!”) made waves in 2013 for its gleeful disregard for scientific fact and so-bad-its-amazing dialogue.
(6) We never revel in it in any sort of gleeful or nihilistic sense; but, on the other hand, we want to be clear-eyed and realistic about these choices Walter has made and this world he's forced himself into."
(7) Full of gleeful scorn, the Daily Kos’s Jed Lewison used the report to say that conservatives think that Benghazi is in Cuba.
(8) Less than four months later, amid rancour, rifts and reams of gleeful commentary in the mainstream Italian media, the euphoria of that stunning breakthrough appears largely to have evaporated.
(9) The gleeful ANC claimed this proved what it had been saying all along: that the DA protects the privilege of Cape Town's affluent suburbanites while kicking its township dwellers in the teeth.
(10) His old swagger was restored and by the time he crossed the line after accelerating away from Gatlin as they rounded the back of the curve, it had become a gleeful strut and he thumped his chest in celebration.
(11) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(12) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(13) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
(14) 'Ten years a minor academic in a provincial university," says Phillip Blond, with a kind of gleeful amazement, "and then suddenly, it all changed."
(15) was the gleeful headline, last summer, in a report by the Sun that claimed he was playing "wages poker" with Inbetweeners producers.
(16) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(17) for hours at a time, despite you spending £300 fitting a cat flap into the double glazing, just through sheer gleeful bloody mindedness.
(18) A gleeful Abbott hit that one out of the park: "The important thing is that the measures have been put in place which have dramatically slowed boat arrivals – that is the important thing.
(19) But the gleeful response to Piketty's "errors" on the rightwing Twittersphere did not happen because some FT pointy-heads discovered a few fat-finger inputs.
(20) Although it cheered his gleeful backbenchers, he must privately worry at how slowly the undoubted good news is translating into economic optimism and identifiable votes for the Conservative party to harvest.
Hilarity
Definition:
(n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
(2) Two patients had hilar lymph node metastases, one of them had also involvement of pericardium.
(3) Among patients with N1 disease we observed more frequent hilar metastases in the more advanced tumors (p less than 0.05).
(4) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
(5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
(6) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(7) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
(8) Thus, it was concluded that CDDP is very effective for patients with lung cancer and that CDDP administered by BAI is useful for hilar-type squamous cell carcinoma.
(9) The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on chest x-ray.
(10) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
(11) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
(12) The earliest formed SSIR neurons, generated on E12 and E13, are preferentially distributed to the subiculum, those generated on E14 are most commonly observed throughout the CA1-CA3 fields of the hippocampus and SSIR neurons which become postmitotic on E15 are more heavily represented in the hilar region of the dentate gyrus than cells born at other stages of development.
(13) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
(14) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
(15) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
(16) Eighty animals were divided into four equal groups: I--splenectomy, II--50% splenectomy with the upper half left in situ connected to the short gastric vessels, III--50% splenectomy with the lower half left in situ connected to the hilar vessels, and IV--splenectomy with implantation of splenic fragments.
(17) It was concluded that intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy for unresectable hepatic hilar carcinoma, contributed to a temporary return to normal life, gave better results than external biliary drainage.
(18) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
(19) Two patients with sarcoidosis involving pulmonary hilar lymph nodes developed the nephrotic syndrome.
(20) Twenty-five out of 33 patients with the lymph nodes metastases had hilar metastatic lymph nodes.