Sentence examples for looking for mercy from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, don't go looking for mercy from the beast; this thing would treat King Kong as a typical bleeding-heart mammal.

Maybe not — he may, again, just be looking for mercy from a community he wants to join, one that has good reason to be angry with him.

Duffy, you may recall, was allegedly looking for mercy, but listen carefully and it's quite clear that we had her "begging for birdseed".

Sands befriended an interpreter from the trial, Siegfried Ramler, who told him: "I looked Frank in the face and thought, 'This is a man who knows he has done wrong.' He was looking for mercy, but not exoneration".

The one who allowed the woman with the flow of blood to touch his garment, who allowed the public sinner to touch his body and wash his feet with her tears, will surely want the divorced and remarried, the prostitutes, the same-sex person who is looking for mercy, healing, grace and unconditional and unmerited divine love to come to his communion table.

Thousands of families – like the Joads in John Ford's adaptation of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath – and hundreds of thousands of young people, as in Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road and Scorcese's Boxcar Bertha, roamed the country in jalopies and boxcars looking for work, food, mercy.

Dalton, riding in the race for only the second time, was hard at work turning for home and his mount appeared at the mercy of Away We Go, with Paul Townend looking for dangers after jumping the second-last fence.

To say he was Virgil to my Dante would be stretching it-just a little-and yet he did show me something of hell, and where to look for grace and mercy in the midst of that.

Let us look for moments to offer mercy to ourselves and anyone else.

"But you look for somebody who just seems to radiate the love and the tenderness, the mercy, the truth of Jesus Christ".

As Mark Kiszla writes in the Denver Post, "Tebowing" now looks like a prayer for mercy.