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.
** 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.
Gas is a more merciful weapon than [the] high explosive shell, and compels an enemy to accept a decision with less loss of life than any other agency of war". He ended his memo on a note of ill-placed black humour: "Why is it not fair for a British artilleryman to fire a shell which makes the said native sneeze?" he asked.
A good attitude MAY cause the examiner to be a little more merciful!
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.
Certainly, the sight of Robert Ryan, the veteran of three previous Rays, swapping his overcoat and fedora for the fetching sheepskin outfit of John the Baptist is less than spiritually convincing, and a more merciful God would have allowed him to disappear completely into his enormous beard.
While he has earned plaudits worldwide for his defense of the poor and his campaign for a more merciful church, Francis has been accused of "not getting it" when it comes to cracking down on abuse and on bishops who shift abusive priests from parish to parish.
If you transgress, I warn you men will be no more merciful to you than those flies and ants are to that piece of fat".
