Sentence examples for mercifully but from inspiring English sources

In both cases the past is both painfully pressing and, mercifully but maddeningly, out of reach.

There are few jarring passages like this, mercifully, but when they do appear, they have the effect of inducing in the reader a strong desire to shake Julius for being an insufferable know-all.

"The scriptures and Christian tradition call for people to be treated decently and mercifully, but there's also the distinction between the obligations of the civil state, which is of course to uphold order and law, and the church, which is of course to extend mercy and compassion to all people".

Maybe it mercifully popped, but probably not.

The number of reset scrums that had been building to ruination was mercifully reduced, but mercilessly too by referees penalising front rows.

The few "naughty bits" are mercifully intact but she has added much more about the exhilaration and terrors and courage of wartime London.

The rising tally of dead roe and red deer is still mercifully small, but contested by local people who claim that it is being systematically under-counted.

Argentinian Maximiliano Urruti's deal finally fell through after months of chatter, the Kevin Davies saga was mercifully briefer, but for a couple of days it looked like the 36 year old would be coming over to Toronto.

That idea has mercifully died, but the fiscal pressures that gave birth to it have provided the impetus for a less nutty variant: phasing out the dollar bill in favour of a dollar coin.Among big economies America is one of the few that issues a low-denomination bank note (see table).

In the past few weeks he has had to cope not just with a fresh set of outpourings from his turbulent former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, now mercifully disowned, but also with Mrs Clinton throwing the kitchen sink and a lot of sharp cutlery at him.

Riots are mercifully rare, but they can escalate very quickly.