Sentence examples for a more merciful from inspiring English sources

Kaspar advocates a more merciful church.

"The document clearly reflects Pope Francis's desire to adopt a more merciful pastoral approach on marriage and family issues," he said.

Francis, himself a Jesuit, chastised the church's narrow focus on controversial social issues and called instead for a more merciful and less judgmental church.

It seems unlikely that either of them had committed himself to Catiline; but Caesar proposed in the Senate a more merciful alternative to the death penalty, which the consul Cicero was asking for the arrested conspirators.

Theirs is a more merciful death, however, than that inflicted upon a defeated rebel leader, Li Yizhi, by eleven successive tortures ceremoniously called Backward Disrobing Primate, Immortal Rides the Mist, Hollow Out the Eggplant, and so on.

Brown knows that his case is not an outlier but that many of the inmates he saw every day would not be behind bars in a more merciful time.

A good attitude MAY cause the examiner to be a little more merciful!

Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion Of The Christ, which opens in the UK on 26 March, carries a far more merciful R rating despite its lengthy depictions of torture.

Although it is common to shoot old and frail horses — and more merciful than a ride to the slaughterhouse — there are too many of them to be dealt with, and there is some money in rounding them up and selling them at auction.

Defenders of bullfights contend an animal's quick death in the ring is more merciful than its demise in a slaughter house.

All the more merciful to gulp a frigid jolt of LiV vodka, neat and jargon-free.