On the other hand, if your novel happens to be as finely wrought, deeply felt and mercifully funny as Helen Schulman's "Day at the Beach," then this timing turns out to be an affirming coincidence, allowing us to see how another talented writer can alchemize that same terrible day.
These feel thoroughly sensible, mercifully jargon-free, and I wish all aid agencies adopted them.
These are short lengths of prose used (mercifully, it feels at times) to break up the dialogue, and they are inked as a poetical pastiche, with Ó Cadhain lampooning the fine writing typically employed when the Swoonful Scribe is exposed to the noble Irish west and excited into a dazzle-burst of award-winning prose: "A tubercular tinge has crept into the crepuscular sky.
In retaliation, Hizbullah guerrillas felt free to fire rockets in the direction of civilians living in northern Israel; mercifully nobody, this time, was killed.
Just as I was starting to feel sorry for the poor Starbucks team, the comedian Nathan Fielder mercifully claimed credit for the trademark hijacking and graciously allowed the Los Angeles County Board of Health to shut down Dumb Starbucks for operating without a license.
(Consider, by way of analogy, how we humans might feel about a scheme to perfect flesh-eating bacteria, those mercifully rare strep bugs that digest muscles, fat and skin tissue with horrifying speed).
This is because he has, mercifully, been back on UK television screens, for which we should all feel collectively grateful.
Mercifully, the condemned prisoners can appeal to a higher court where observers feel their death sentences are likely going to be overturned on procedural grounds.
After a couple of seasons, the viewer feels guilty watching them sadly stumble around the ring like punch-drunk pugs and the producers mercifully cut them from the show.
You feel you've been taken by the hand, led gently along a terrifying path (which few will mercifully know) into previously unchartered territory, and allowed to share in this deeply personal chronicle of grief.
