After what I've heard for two days, it feels like a merciful pause, as this most unlikely of frontier towns collectively figures out the more practical aspects of politics and economics, and how to live at the outer edge of just about everything.
And he was an outrageously funny Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, stealing the scene from a slightly stunned looking Kevin Costner with lines like: "No more merciful beheadings!
Merciful like the Father!
You're merciful, not like them.
OSLO — Convicted of killing 77 people in a horrific bombing and shooting attack in July last year, the Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced on Friday to 21 years in prison — fewer than four months per victim — ending a case that thoroughly tested this gentle country's collective commitment to values like tolerance, nonviolence and merciful justice.
"There is nothing remarkable in cherishing merely our own people with the due attentions of love, but that one might become perfect who should do something more than heathen men or publicans, one who, overcoming evil with good, and practicing a merciful kindness like that of God, should love his enemies as well...Thus the good was done to all men, not merely to the household of faith".
Ailing person's heart is like a house full of smoke, being merciful and beneficial to him is like opening a window to this house and save him from suffocation [ 14].
Apart from the moments where Fox's bearded Bobby suddenly looks like a sternly moral then merciful Christian God, LaBute's revelations offer few surprises.
Always repent and confess, like the publican stated "be merciful to me, a sinner".
Fortunately, the clues are merciful in a case like this, and there is one other saving grace here today: the byline.
