Mercifully, it wasn't enough to uproot "Bunheads".
Mercifully, India was still big enough, and Manto's place in it small enough, for such judgments not to matter, at least not for long: in the years between Aligarh and the court trial for "Bu," Manto had got married, become a father, and found a job as a scriptwriter in Bombay.
Sometimes, mercifully, they would give away enough biographical material in the short stilted conversation that I'd be able to work out who they were, but not often enough.
Mr. Seacrest's time on stage was mercifully fleeting, though perhaps not fleeting enough.
But, mercifully, most are either short or obvious enough not to use up your day with sitting them out.
Of course they are both old men, part of a generation that is dying out, and soon enough their era will be mercifully finished.
He had mercifully few lines, and his doughy pout worked well enough in the part of an innocent-looking teenage extremist.
Mercifully for Hogg, he is proving himself to be handy enough with a different shaped ball.
Mercifully, the rain relented ahead of FP2, although the track was still damp enough at the start that those who ventured out did so on either wet tyres or the intermediates.
Mercifully, you don't see this death on camera, though if you sit close enough to the screen, you will see a few fairly brief images of one sexual event, accompanied by graphic sounds.
