How To Use Merciful In A Sentence
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Being at the mercy of an unmerciful Ãresource decisionà ®, right at the end of your life, is unacceptable.
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The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
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After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem.
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With the unfairness of it all, the final whistle was a merciful relief.
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If so, then a being cannot be perfectly just and perfectly merciful.
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Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable.
Creative Control - Part 4
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The sad irony of it all is that God's infinite mercifulness extends to the nether limits where our present breed of politicians abound.
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Experiencing his mercy should humble us, fill us with gratitude, and move us to be merciful toward those around us.
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To Rich, his brother suddenly appeared as some benign leader, the merciful father taking his excitable daughters on holiday.
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The obscurities of literary theory are mercifully avoided, frequently by such witty contemporary reference and colloquial language which bring Shakespeare into the world of today's reader.
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Then, slowly, mercifully, humor and affection grew.
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After reading about 40 pages, she fell into a merciful, dreamless sleep.
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I can best describe this book as a series of masterclasses at which we are, mercifully, not required to put our executant talents under scrutiny.
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His acceptance speech was mercifully brief.
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Mercifully, the Windows shell offers you tick boxes instead of command line switches to make life a little easier.
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He also refrained from mentioning his objections to Carmen, because he knew she would rib him unmercifully.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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I'm attending a history conference this weekend, which makes this weekly Robin mercifully short.
Archive 2008-06-01
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And the merciful instrument was even she of the cross-eye.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions.
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Finding myself (not often in London on the day that comes so mercifully between the Saturday and Monday) beside the enisled Marble Arch, I spent half an hour in listening to the astonishing oratory that was going on there.
A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
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Overall, the issue is happily devoid of many of the ditzier features that have crept into business magazines in recent years -- no pointless lists of the best this or the worst that -- and, mercifully, no attempt to get you, the reader, to start blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, linking or job hunting right now!
Yvette Kantrow: Economist sans buts
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The sources of these recessions varied, but all were mercifully brief, thanks in some measure to government policy.
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You note the legal impossibility of merciful death near home.
Times, Sunday Times
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However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.
Jude the Obscure
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Mercifully, he had played no role in the shooting, serving as the rearguard of the second unit.
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And for a family movie set in a restaurant, Campanella mercifully spares us any panting bliss-outs on the sensual nature of food.
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Many 21st Century Westerners imagine that there are two Gods; the God of the Old Testament - harsh and unmerciful - and the God of the New Testament - loving and forgiving.
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Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
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That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose.
In The Time Of Light
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The healer had just finished his training, but in the confusion never said that all important, closing protective prayer and it seemed the devil himself somehow transmitted this mercifulness skin condition onto Spider ten fold.
Archive 2007-07-01
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But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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he dealt with the thief mercifully
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City were not in especially merciful mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no sound — which lent merciful distance to what it showed: the interrogation of some unidentified middle-aged man, undergoing falanga, mostly (beatings to pulp the feet), though the session culminated in anal rape with a stick.
Watching Torture
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Mercifully, halfway across it stops, but the cold continues to bite bone deep as we scurry up the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Stylistically, this mercifully brief book reeks of dissertation padding.
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Mercifully, she could still dream of the expansive Havana avenues, the grand casinos before the revolution, the kempt plazas where she would linger with her lover.
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Chapter 57 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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As the sun was declining, mercifully, the road began to descend, passing through surprisingly lush but uncultivated land.
KARA KUSH
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The liturgical problem is serious, do not listen to the voices of those persons who do not love the Church and who oppose the Pope and if you want to cure the sick then remember that the merciful doctor makes the wound purulent (fa la piaga purulenta).
Interview with Domenico Bartolucci
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be called upon to staunch a splendid flow of blood, and dress a wonderful wound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Bombing would have been, it was believed, a merciful end to those who suffered unimaginable horrors there.
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We hung on this way for about 5 years or so and then, mercifully, Cappi's was sold.
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Parlabane was wandering relievedly towards the exit, his shift mercifully over, when McCreedie called him across to their gathering.
Quite Ugly One Morning
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Uncle Sebastian used to tease Mother and Daddy unmercifully that all they could produce was girls.
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Death came as a merciful release.
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When his term mercifully expires next year, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be leaving the Golden State in the worst condition than at any time its history.
Joseph A. Palermo: California Democrats: "Spreading the Pain" from Sacramento
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Mercifully, the moon has changed, which always gives me the strength to crawl out of my funk and count my blessings.
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Let us have it out, and then I'll kiss the place to make it well as I used to do when I took the splinters from the fingers you are pricking so unmercifully, said the doctor, anxious to relieve his pet patient as soon as possible.
Rose in Bloom
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When a disabled child dies some people think it is a merciful release but it was the beginning of a nightmare for us.
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Martin turned the ball over twice and committed two fouls during his mercifully brief stint.
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Merciful, too, are the Glossary (for words like rhopalic) and the appendix of solutions and answers.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3
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At this point, Zack's Aunt mercifully intervened and took him inside to feed him some pasta and fudgsicles.
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[A] wry new memoir … [Kamen] intertwines her journey (which, mercifully, is often comical) with the latest medical research.
All In My Head: Summary and book reviews of All In My Head by Paula Kamen.
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While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk.
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Mercifully, there was no permanent damage, just bruising.
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The wait was mercifully brief, little more than an hour.
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As food was gradually derationed - it was completely derationed only in about 1956-public health started to improve and, mercifully, life expectancy began increasing.
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His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride.
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Given the unmerciful way that George W Bush responded to the September 11 atrocity, Hussein is surely doing his best to tempt the president over the edge again.
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My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends.
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The country of Romania has been occupied by Turkey and is forced to pay an annual tribute to the unmerciful Turkish Sultan.
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'For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. For my child's sake!
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What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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The event itself was well organised and mercifully free of the marketing hype that often comes with the introduction of new technology.
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By the light of a charcoal fire, clay images were ruddily discernible; before these the enchanters moved unhumanly clad, and doing things which, mercifully perhaps, were veiled from Manuel by the peculiarly perfumed obscurity.
Figures of Earth
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The building was stuffy, unmercifully hot, electricity shut off, windows battened down.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure.
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May He show His face to you and be merciful to you.
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Terror, real and imagined, at home and abroad, sit together and spread like an unmerciful cancer through Perowne as the novel reaches its climax.
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The play was very bad, but mercifully it was also short!
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I found the photo here when I was uploading mine about a week ago which Fiend and scums deleted because its showed Jesus Christ as a compassionate and merciful soul and "God forbid" that "christian hunter" will get offended because they need their killing Jesus.
Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
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The expression on the goddess' face was merciful and compassionate.
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His acceptance speech was mercifully brief.
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Allah as predestinating men severally to salvation or damnation, while he also describes him as “the Com - passionate One, the Merciful.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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We think it right to give our pets a merciful end to their suffering; but we deny such mercy to humans.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I was really ticklish when I was a kid (still am for that matter, but only on the back and not all the time), and my cousins used to trap me at Empire Bay and tickle me unmercifully.
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They'd allow people to enjoy the nice weather, which can be unmercifully short and fickle.
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My seed swear vengeance Written with blood from carved flesh Making rage and evilness To destroy all merciful kind.
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Let me back up and say they also get a book that is what my wife calls mercifully short.
Deadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the Century
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She smokes like a chimney stack so for a minute I figured she was outside lighting up, but as I turned in the driveway and glanced through the mercifully tinted windows of the new van, I could see neither stogie nor ash tray.
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The wreath tradition stuck around until he mercifully ended it.
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A growing number of residents have been contacting the Staines Guardian to complain about the unmerciful action by youngsters, who are harming the birds residing in the River Thames.
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Following the sound of flexing paper, there were two sharp intakes of breath and the light was mercifully aimed lower, pointing at his feet.
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Instead of compelling the patient to lead the terrible life of an invalid, the doctor should have let the patient die a merciful death, the media argued.
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I think my last book, I'm Losing You, struck many people as cold or unmerciful.
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The interesting menu was mercifully free of obscure language and left me spoiled for choice.
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A superb rum punch had all the characteristics of merciful execution.
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It was a mercifully quick end for those condemned to die.
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The men opened a store in a settlement called Bayou Sara, which "sat beside a leisurely stream once known as Bayou Gonorrhea, the origin of that name mercifully forgotten," Mr. Davis writes.
When the Bayou Broke Away
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After such a long illness, her death came as a merciful release.
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in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband
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So the generous, merciful boys in blue gave him his own space.
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A superb rum punch had all the characteristics of merciful execution.
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For a while there, it didn't seem like it was ever going to happen but 1998 has finally come to a merciful end.
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Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
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It would be mercifully brief, but it probably wouldn't do the sheer awfulness of this film justice.
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So just as well the Rugby World Cup's opening ceremony - a sort of mini-me version of Sydney's epic Olympics effort - was mercifully short.
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My seed swear vengeance Written with blood from carved flesh Making rage and evilness To destroy all merciful kind.
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But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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A bunch of abomination, called a cigar, reeked in the left-hand corner of the mouth of one, and in the right-hand corner of the mouth of the other -- an arrangement happily adapted for the escape of the noxious fumes up the chimney, without that unmerciful "funking" each other, which a less scientific disposition of the weed would have induced.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure.
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Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions.
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Chalmers, Johnson, and even Applerod wrestled with him in spirit; his friends at the Idlers 'Club "guyed" him unmercifully, and even Biff Bates, though his support was earnestly sought by the
The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
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So death then came suddenly and swiftly and mercifully.
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Quickly and mercifully, the initial apprehension disappears as the book turns into an intense and absorbing read.
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After years of suffering, his death came as a merciful release.
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What might have happened if the rider and horse hadn't arrived, mercifully she never discovered.
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Mercifully, commenter "harumph" pops by with a futile attempt to restore sanity: "Coleman's lead eroded all day Thursday as the Canvassing Board considered a pile of challenges brought entirely by the Coleman campaign.
Fat nigger jokes, SDA-style.
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My yearning and lust for this movie was unquenchable at the time, rivaling my current prayers for a quick and merciful death.
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For hauing wherof, our Lord did put into the head of my vmercifull father to send thee vnto me, and truly I will bestow some teares vppon thee, although I was determined to die, without sheading any teares at all, stoutlie, not fearefull of any thinge.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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He was merciful to me and my family, especially my parents.
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Later generations were frequently reminded that they were once members of a slave community whom the Lord had mercifully redeemed from bondage.
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This was "Taff" Williams, Stoker First-class, comedian tenth-class, and master of patter unintelligible (mercifully so, perhaps) to any but a bluejacket audience.
A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
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Mercifully, just when a major surgical procedure looked inevitable for the miscreant toddler, Mr Scott had a flash of inspiration.
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Then they began to cry up parties again: the Diabolonians cried Up old Incredulity, Forget-Good, the new aldermen, and their great one Diabolus; and the other party, they as fast cried up Shaddai, the captains, his laws, their mercifulness, and applauded their conditions and ways.
The Holy War
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For the captains who helmed America's largest black-owned businesses, managing those businesses in 2002 was like navigating a vessel in an unmerciful storm.
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He is more dead than alive, and a diabolic revenge on him might have been to just let him suffer on, rather than mercifully put him out of his misery.
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Gabriel herself had not had a happy family life, but a merciful providence, as she now saw it, had orphaned her early.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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Again the authors are mercifully undogmatic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Fortunately, I decided to visit in February, when the chances of becoming addlebrained from the heat, anemic from the mosquito horde, or battered by a hurricane were mercifully low.
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During her mercifully brief stay she managed to squeeze in the following complaints.
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In those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband.
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The designation Good Samaritan has become so associated with the idea of mercifulness, that I doubt not there are many persons who have the impression that Samaritans in the ancient Hebrew days were people specially noted for their benevolent disposition.
The Essentials of Spirituality
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Achon and Ioppe, neere to a towne called Assur, Saladine with a great multitude of his Saracens came fiercely against the kings rereward, but through Gods mercifull grace in the same battell, the kings warriers acquited themselues so well, that the Saladine was put to flight, whom the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat.
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Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
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Summer's almost over, and the summer supererogative will soon mercifully come to end.
Yeeeah! - Snarky Celebrity Gossip
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So we let the brief conversation come to a merciful end and they started to walk away.
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We can at least take comfort from the fact that such brutality is mercifully rare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marcel Vigneron, the cock-of-the-walk who somehow only grew cockier after getting his head forcibly shaved by his competitors during Season 2, was mercifully sent packing.
Cheers & Jeers: Top Chef: All Stars' Casualty of Wars
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Popping into the oven, I perused the ingredients list which again was mercifully short and pronounceable, but odd.
A Miss and a Surprise Hit
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I think my uncle's death was a merciful release for my poor aunt.
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One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do.
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Mercifully, I managed to stop the car just in time.
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Although it recently underwent a comprehensive refurb, in a bid to broaden its customer appeal, the interior has mercifully not been altered beyond recognition.
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Oh My Sweet Merciful Ghod...run don't walk to your nearest and driest newsdealer, you HAVE to read Brian McGrory's column in today's Globe.
The Chimes at Midnight
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They had put on 25 when a second stoppage for bad light brought a merciful release.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thankfully, the market forces are mercifully in our favor as there are plans to start a professional cricket league in America.
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Below, on the solid ground, stakes with chains were driven into the ground; while near the gibbet was a post with a chain in which those who were to be mercifully strangled before being thrown into the flames were to be placed.
The Ferryman of Brill and other stories
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Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,
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I was hanging over the edge of the bed, gagging and retching, though mercifully nothing was coming out.
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When the referee mercifully signalled a conclusion, the short burst of booing from the supporters became the most eloquent action of a pitiful fixture.
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Reporters unmercifully peppered Clark with questions, but she refused to concede any ground, parroting the statements of the premier and her party like a robot.
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The gods could, up to a point, be merciful; but it was fate that was all-powerful.
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As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous.
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
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Let us pray, O Lord Jesus Christ, our mediator with the Father, who has been pleased to appoint the most Blessed Virgin, your Mother, to be our mother also, and our mediatrix with you, mercifully grant that whoever comes to you seeking your favours may rejoice to receive all of them through her.
Edmund Campion - Mary's Dowry
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R: unmerciful mire, lick up the most lovely person in the world!
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O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-will: nor kill (or destroy) yourselves (commit suicide): for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.
The Invasion | ATTACKERMAN
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Cork gave us an unmerciful hiding in the 2003 final and we'll be hoping to try and make up for that.
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His abrupt departure will perhaps be a merciful release.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both are the results of genetic mutations, and mercifully rare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord Grey had lost his temper: but Raleigh kept his, and answered quietly — “Her majesty shall at least not find me among the number of those who prefer her favor to her safety, and abuse to their own profit that over-tenderness and mercifulness of heart which is the only blemish (and yet, rather like a mole on a fair cheek, but a new beauty) in her manifold perfections.”
Westward Ho!
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Confused he walked back to dying chief, he was calling out for a merciful death.
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The following morning, mercifully sunny, I shopped for gifts in the back streets and then headed for the airport.
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Besides having suitable genes, he had been through the Intelligence Corps 'unmercifully rigorous courses in linguistics and metalinguistics, semantics and metasemantics, every known trick of concentration and memorization; he had learned how to learn.
The Rebel Worlds
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Lots of us there lost loved ones, but only for terrifying and mercifully brief moments.
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When I awake hours later, mercifully Chongqing has disappeared and the Yangtze is flowing through attractive, verdant hills dotted with banana plantations and yellow terraced fields.
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His death was undoubtedly merciful, but he left a sad gap among his dwindling circle of friends.
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That is the view of two leading experts on the topic who, yesterday, published a mercifully brief and clear summation of the situation.
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In the next phrase he praised God as "compassionate and merciful," the words religious Muslims incant regularly as they pray.
What Rick Warren Said
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I've swapped the Docs for stilettoes and the short, spiky hairdo is a mercifully distant memory.
It will take more than Bill Gates to save the world
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The wait was mercifully brief, little more than an hour.
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His abrupt departure will perhaps be a merciful release.
Times, Sunday Times
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Violent crime here is mercifully rare, despite some terrifying recent incidents.
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Being a servant means always wanting to help others; it is being compassionate and merciful.
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It's also a taste of things to come, a reward for the patient, and a merciful release for the tortured.
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The quick end to the war brought the angle to a merciful conclusion and McMahon shifted his nimble mind to the pursuit of other angles.
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He lasted for seven more years, and concerning these, the authors are mercifully brief.
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I also have many muslim relatives who have converted to Christianity, who are banned for life from their loved ones, the fatwa (a decree of slaughter) is out against them, if they are found or seen they are to be killed immediately in the name of Allah the most unmerciful idol god.
Global Voices in English » Arab Diaspora: Shall I Marry a Non-Arab?
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Mercifully some one arrived upon the scene to extricate him from the dilemma and assume the responsibility.
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It is as though, having assumed the air of some merciful spirit on earth, they were in reality mere satanic emissaries in disguise.
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But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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a merciful god
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A few other clergymen denounced the ball, and soon, “threatening letters arrived by every post, debating societies discussed our extravagance, and last, but not least, [the Bradley Martins] were burlesqued unmercifully on the stage.”
The Bradley-Martin Ball | Edwardian Promenade
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So perhaps he was pleading for a merciful death?
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It is, to say the least, difficult to understand how it is possible to be loving and merciful to people one is trying to kill.
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Before the tears came, Doctor Lee mercifully injected Robert with a powerful sedative.
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At least he would be more merciful to them and give them a quick end.
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The cart rattled, and she had been jostled unmercifully.
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Despite its putative uncanonicity, it is only due to the "mercifulness" of the other Patriarchates that it barely enjoys communion at all.
Orrologion
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In Germany in the good old days certain kinds of female criminals were "impaled," a punishment too grotesquely horrible for description, but likely enough considered by the simple German of the period conspicuously merciful.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
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The main piece about the snow was relevant and predictable and mercifully short.
Times, Sunday Times
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Helena suffers from Type One Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a muscle wasting genetic disease from which her twin sister Saskia is mercifully free.
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He had piped to us in gracious and merciful providences, mourned to us in calamitous, afflicting providences, and has set the one over against the other.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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They had put on 25 when a second stoppage for bad light brought a merciful release.
Times, Sunday Times
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How will we wage war mercifully, when he may deliberately move his military forces right next to civilians?
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There is no hard line between malicious encouragement on the one hand and merciful release on the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be merciful to the other creations so the Creator will have mercy on you.
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be called upon to staunch a splendid flow of blood, and dress a wonderful wound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
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The wait was mercifully brief, little more than an hour.
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To the One, Merciful God be praise and glory for ever.
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When it was time to leave primary school to start secondary school, it was a huge relief, when mercifully, Anthony was placed in what was known as the dunce's class and it was only the odd occasion when they bumped into each other.
Archive 2007-07-01
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It was a peaceful and merciful end for Jade.
The Sun
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Mercifully, the soccer star leaned back and stared at the wall above her head, deep in his muzzy thoughts.
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We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture,' it read.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hades is not his real name, everybody calls him Hades for his very unmerciful and cruel tactics in battles and wars.
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The exhibition is informative, up to date, and mercifully free of gimmicks.
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The sad irony of it all is that God's infinite mercifulness extends to the nether limits where our present breed of politicians abound.
