Sentence examples for been more merciful for from inspiring English sources

Both women have encountered comments from clumsy outsiders that battlefield death would have been more merciful for everyone's future.

It would have been more merciful for writer-director Michael Patrick King to have rented Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda out to the "Saw" franchise, or to Rob Zombie, so we could watch them get shot in the head or skinned alive by Arkansas rednecks.

It would have been more merciful".

It could have been more merciful.

The most substantial changes to Catholic marriage annulment procedures in centuries again showed Francis' desire for the church to be more merciful to Catholics in difficulty.

She was there to look for two sons, ages 16 and 17. "The Israelis were more merciful than them," she said of Hamas.

He said that slaves were for the most part well treated, and plantation punishments, such as whipping or branding, were more merciful than sentences of imprisonment that a white man might receive in the North for similar conduct.

Dictatorship, he added, "was more merciful".

That was more merciful than some lawyers I spoke to had expected.

In some towns, the invaders were more merciful; they just killed the heretics.

Maybe the Mets wouldn't find it as easy because they don't have a Bartolo Colon to trade for a package of terrific young minor leaguers, but it would probably be more merciful.