We have, mercifully, largely passed the point where we ask whether art causes such disasters.
Mercifully that passed (Woody Harrelson, in Indecent Proposal, was especially unconvincing in that role).
I passed out, mercifully quickly, to the dim roar of Slovenian drinking songs, and left before daybreak the next morning.
Mercifully, there was not a malevolent side to the occasion, and the encounter passed without significant trouble, with 19 arrests made in and around the stadium.
TILDEN--Suzanne Haber, wife of the late Jack Tilden, passed over on Tuesday, February 23 , 2010 at her home in Maplewood, NJ - a mercifully peaceful end to a long and productive life.
Mel, as he was known, passed away near his winter residence in Florida, surrounded by family and friends, after succumbing to a sudden but mercifully short illness.
Power has passed back and forth between left and right, but truly radical movements have found little traction, and political violence has been mercifully rare.
With their constituents' complaints ringing in their ears, members of the City Council that brought us cellphone-free theaters are mercifully taking another crack at passing the first law in the nation to curb car alarms.
Unfortunately, the play lost me when Zavrice started passing a plate of shit around the audience (mercifully with clingfilm on top of it) and then tried to demonstrate that it could be sold for $20.
Mercifully, most drivers realise that affording you no more than the width of your handlebars as they pass is not really a recipe for human happiness.
(I pass over in silence his 1970 comedy, "Leo the Last" -- which is even worse -- only because it was practically unseen at the time and has mercifully remained so since).
