Sentence examples for for merciful from inspiring English sources

American Indian boarding school curricula included directives for merciful animal stewardship.

If the dog could never again be happy, he allowed, there might be a case for merciful death.

Outside, beyond the gleeful bonging and beeping of the 2,000 slot machines, an ultramodern racetrack is being groomed for another night of Thoroughbred betting by blue-collar commuters from Ohio searching for merciful odds along a riverfront dotted with snow patches and abandoned factories.

We cannot fault the Almighty for being merciful, but isn't there somebody we can blame for being misleading?

I got points for being "merciful," and then when I had to cap a guy for real, I got "marksman" credit for a headshot.

In Texas, Gov. Rick Perry encouraged Texans to ask God "for his merciful intervention and healing in this time of crisis".

So the extended family that is anchored by the Al Laghetto Restaurant is holding its collective breath, hoping for a merciful ruling from the courts.

The Knicks were clinging to a 2-point lead with seconds to play and hoping for a merciful end to their seven-game losing streak.

Let us give thanks for this merciful escape....The Reagan-era trappings — the noisome rococo of nouvelle cuisine, the early cell phones as long as a shoe, and the rise of Phil Collins — are fair game, but that is just the start.

Among other things, the books feature a church-sponsored prison camp for kidnapped children, a pair of renegade male angels who are touchingly in love and a god who is ancient, weak and exhausted, yearning more than anything for the merciful release of death.

I think that I don't have to posit some corny interventionist prod from a meddling sky-fairy to account for my merciful ability to notice things a little better, when God is continually present everywhere anyway, undemonstratively underlying all cafés, all cassettes, all composers.