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How To Use mercifully In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• Then, slowly, mercifully, humor and affection grew.
• 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.
• His acceptance speech was mercifully brief.
• Mercifully, the Windows shell offers you tick boxes instead of command line switches to make life a little easier.
• He also refrained from mentioning his objections to Carmen, because he knew she would rib him unmercifully. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• I'm attending a history conference this weekend, which makes this weekly Robin mercifully short. Archive 2008-06-01
• 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
• 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