How To Use Mercifully In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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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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he dealt with the thief mercifully
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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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As the sun was declining, mercifully, the road began to descend, passing through surprisingly lush but uncultivated land.
KARA KUSH
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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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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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Martin turned the ball over twice and committed two fouls during his mercifully brief stint.
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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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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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The play was very bad, but mercifully it was also short!
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His acceptance speech was mercifully brief.
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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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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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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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The interesting menu was mercifully free of obscure language and left me spoiled for choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Both are the results of genetic mutations, and mercifully rare.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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Violent crime here is mercifully rare, despite some terrifying recent incidents.
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He lasted for seven more years, and concerning these, the authors are mercifully brief.
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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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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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Before the tears came, Doctor Lee mercifully injected Robert with a powerful sedative.
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The cart rattled, and she had been jostled unmercifully.
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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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How will we wage war mercifully, when he may deliberately move his military forces right next to civilians?
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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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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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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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The exhibition is informative, up to date, and mercifully free of gimmicks.
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And in particular, how mercifully hath the Lord dealt with this poor county of Worcester, in raising up so many who do credit to the sacred office, and self-denyingly and freely, zealously and unweariedly, lay out themselves for the good of souls!
The Reformed Pastor
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In a mercifully brief office scene, it becomes clear that Linda is the equivalent of Dracula's Jonathan Harker.
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Mercifully, a friend came to the rescue.
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The first, next Thursday, will involve Gareth and I running off together to be wed in a mercifully brief ceremony.
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It was quite a bit chillier by the water, but also mercifully free of people.
"...once we're out amongst the shadows."
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Mercifully, this ominous exterior belies the elegant rooms within.
Times, Sunday Times
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His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while.
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Mercifully, the writer leaves most of the physical horrors to our imagination.
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Mercifully, this disgraceful insult to a proud nation was removed before it had a chance to cause a diplomatic incident.
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‘What a strange way to die,’ he thinks, sure that it's all over, but mercifully they are all spared.
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Then there is Currency Lad, who was posting reviews before his mercifully brief retirement.
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Mercifully the SS men got off the bus before his punctilio caused him to unmask his disguise.
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Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
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Although we batten down all bottles and loose items, this time, mercifully, there is only a moderate swell.
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She's mercifully swapped the statement earrings and roll-neck sweaters for statement earrings and structured jackets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from a savage, but mercifully brief, bout of hitting by Adam Gilchrist in the early overs, the innings had belonged very much to England.
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It was truly dreadful and it was not mercifully short.
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And the currawongs would just tease her unmercifully.
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Mercifully, this ominous exterior belies the elegant rooms within.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still coolish, but with mercifully lighter winds than the past two days.
Forecast: Wind is gone, warmer times ahead
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And if you're still not convinced life's a drag, several annoying but mercifully brief musical numbers jackhammer the point home.
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Mercifully short, knocked it off.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Gaelic-language revival is unmercifully burlesqued in The Poor Mouth.
Oblomov in Dublin
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Mercifully, this ominous exterior belies the elegant rooms within.
Times, Sunday Times
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The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low.
The Sun
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Allie made her way onto the beach, still clumsy legs getting relief in the mercifully soft sand.
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How did it all end, when it eventually and mercifully did?
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Mercifully, this ominous exterior belies the elegant rooms within.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the privileged leadership of the Ancien Régime had lost their heads to the guillotine, a device invented to "mercifully" eliminate an entire class of people.
Rodney Punt: Cherubini's Medea to Launch Long Beach Opera's New Season
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Much of the privileged leadership of the Ancien Régime had lost their heads to the guillotine, a device invented to "mercifully" eliminate an entire class of people.
Rodney Punt: Cherubini's Medea to Launch Long Beach Opera's New Season
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It’s raining here this morning, just a light rain instead of the toad strangler we had two days ago, and mercifully no lightning — our dachshund is a huge baby during storms.
Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread
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Deaths from the disease are mercifully rare.
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And the ones who have husbands henpeck them unmercifully.
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I note that you mercifully didn't choose to overtax our abilities by describing this power rating as ‘four 50-watt domestic lightbulbs’.
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
How to "pass" for a Mexican
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The squally showers that drenched the area before kick off had mercifully ceased by the time Chris took an early long-range penalty.
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Mercifully, amid this sea of grey conformity, there are a few non-apparatchiks with the savvy and cussedness to highlight awkward issues without bothering to worry about being caned by that tyrant.
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Always a couple of brutes insist upon impelling you sternwards; from whom the only means to release yourself is to kick out vigorously and unmercifully, when the Arabs will possibly retreat.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Most of the east coast remains mercifully untouched by tourism.
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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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I sailed on towards Wellington Harbour 70 miles away, saved only by the branches of a willow tree trailing mercifully within arm's reach.
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From the corridor, the frantic typing was mercifully blurred.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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Thankfully, Patton's scene amounts to little more than a mercifully brief cameo.
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It was also mercifully short.
The Sun
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In both cases we have been mercifully spared the full fury.
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But anyway, he is mercifully unstarry on arrival — friendly, punctual and thrilled to find samphire on the menu.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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I tried not to overeat, which isn’t all that difficult because I really don’t like turkey all that much (another confession!) My mother’s homemade carrot cake presents a different story altogether, and I have been indulging my sweet tooth unmercifully.
Status Report
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They are mercifully brief and my replies are even briefer.
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It was mercifully brief; the preacher lost his balance and fell into the crowd.
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Humanity herself would have recoiled back with horror; she would have balanced whether to lessen such reliefless distress, or mercifully with one blow to end this dreadful scene of agonising torture!
Letters from an American Farmer
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Starvation is mercifully the exception rather than the rule - when it still exists, it is the result of social inequality rather than an absolute failure to produce food.
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His acceptance speech was mercifully brief.
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When he had an erection during sleep, as men did, she teased him unmercifully, suggesting that he had suppressed and unre - quited urges.
Here There Are Monsters
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Jaswant Singh and Jinnah mercifully conspire to vivify the publishing industry.
Archive 2009-08-01
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I was finally, mercifully, closing the door to my religious past and beginning life anew.
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It is not remotely didactic and it is mercifully free from the self-righteous pomposity that you might expect from a banker who is also an ordained clergyman.
Times, Sunday Times
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His style is crisp and mercifully free of showiness.
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Britpop, on the other hand, isn't just dead but a festering zombie corpse, its ribcage dangling out of its chest, unmercifully massacring every Quadrophenia revivalist and ill-advised brass section left parping in its wake.
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As a kid, Ms. Gold fell in love with the show, in which outrageous contestants were "gonged" that is, mercifully forced to stop their acts by a panel of likewise nutso judges, which included such offbeat celebrities as Phyllis Diller and Rex Reed.
Flocking to Meet (and Avoid) the Gong
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There are four major strains of malaria and the Kabul area is known for harbouring the worst of them, plasmodium falciparum, a rapid, potentially fatal strain that is mercifully more easily treatable than the others.
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If not more uniform than early induction into the military, schooling is, mercifully, the more common experience.
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Harpax is unmercifully "chaffed" by Simo and Ballio.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus
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They are mercifully free of conventional military teaching or experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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The meetings were kept mercifully short, and were followed by an extensive buffet, and there was plenty of free time for mooching around and doing our own stuff.
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And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York.
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In both cases we have been mercifully spared the full fury.
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The sudden and, as it turns out, mercifully brief closure of Fibbers threw into sharp relief the lack of venues for live music in York.
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I pushed Wally into the elevator, and mercifully the door shut on us.
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It was a bright vibrant red colour, not thick, but mercifully not thin either.
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Although foot and mouth has mercifully spared Helmsley's farmers so far, they are worried about the potential for infection, he said.
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The rogue doctor, the Hippocratic saviour turned hypocritic slayer, is a mercifully rare medical phenomenon in this country.
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Most of the east coast remains mercifully untouched by tourism.
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Supernatural Season on Emma Bunton Has Baby With Only Semi-Stupid Name jeff on Gary Busey Tries To Explain His Berserk Oscars Weird-Out klara on The Inevitable Saucy Prince William, Kate Middleton Photos Mercifully Not Released viktoria on Angelina Jolie & Jennifer Aniston To Fight To The Death For Charity Kit on Nanny: 'I Shagged Jon Gosselin', Rest Of World: 'Bleuuurgh'
Hecklerspray
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Next day, Blue Bear and Green Bear were very angry - and stood on the great steps of the glass palace and 'rubbished' the Yellow Bears unmercifully.
Once Upon a Time in Wales...
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Except to complain at being accused of "inanities" and of being "fucking ridiculous" your last comment was simply a restatement by other (mercifully less) words than your previous comment.
BobFromBrockley
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When folk tauld him that Janet was sib to the deil, it was a 'superstition by his way of it; an' when they cast up the Bible to him an 'the witch of Endor, he wad threep it doun their thrapples that thir days were a' gane by, and the deil was mercifully restrained.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
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It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden.
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Uncle Sebastian used to tease Mother and Daddy unmercifully that all they could produce was girls.
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Mercifully, there were no pink wafer biscuits.
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We went for our continental breakfast around this time, and had no conversation (mercifully) with our table mates.
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Mrs Cigans tells the children to sit at one end of the table but mercifully does not include me in this category.
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Well at least their introductory sequence and FBI warning is mercifully brief.
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Mercifully, the sail contraption collapsed and fell overboard before I even got it up.
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Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the lee-board of a Dutch schuyt.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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Mercifully, the writer leaves most of the physical horrors to our imagination.
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King's "USA" show debuted in March after the immigrant-bashing, right-wing bloviator Lou Dobbs mercifully left CNN, but King, flashed his conservative credentials with the pejorative Gore remark and revealed, perhaps unintentionally, that CNN (owned by Time Warner) must have reserved the 7: 00 p.m. time period for a wing-nut.
Charles Warner: CNN's John King Panders to Deniers
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The video pieces in particular were mercifully short.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mercifully, he was setting up a honey trap for Jim.
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Do not cocks fight unurged, and are not their battles with nature's spurs more cruel than when matched by man and heeled with steel or even silver, which mercifully ends the combat in short order?
The Reckoning
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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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Mercifully, when McConnell strolls into Scotstoun a week hence, she will be accorded her due recognition.
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Her ribs ached, her stomach hurt unmercifully, and her back was killing her.
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Mercifully, they have more or less avoided the affected, fake English accents that plagued the sub-genre.
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The rogue doctor, the Hippocratic saviour turned hypocritic slayer, is a mercifully rare medical phenomenon in this country.
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Mercifully, it did not cause the death and destruction intended.
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The very word sickens me, and the thought of my own sisters acting mercifully is almost too much to bear!
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By the next day, the roast has been mercifully festooned with vegetables and potted to a fare-thee-well… the way God intended it to be.
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This one was mercifully short, easy to understand, light on the cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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As part of her innate loyalty-building strategy, Galvan taped up the business cards of seemingly everyone who ever came in, and glossies of every local figure and demi-celebrity she could talk into giving her one: today the 1970s walnut-look paneling is (mercifully) almost completely covered with them.
Cooking for a Sunday Day
