But the latest terrifying missive (courtesy of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC) is, mercifully, served with a bit of soothing chaser.
But the latest terrifying missive (courtesy of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC) is, mercifully, served with a bit of soothing chaser: Apparently, the political will to actually do something about reducing carbon emissions is starting to emerge around the globe.
We drove to my hotel for dinner, where Struth — after ascertaining that he wouldn't be acting like a rude guest — joined me in mocking the pretentious food served in mercifully stingy portions.
My latest fiasco occurred several months ago while leaving from Kennedy Airport for Long Beach, Calif., on JetBlue Airways, the economy airline that mercifully doesn't serve meals -- if you don't count those cloying salt-and-sugar-glazed peanuts that give you a Saharan thirst.
There was my favorite clothing store on Kensington Church Street, which sold expensive but mercifully non-ill-fitting jeans, and then Ffiona's, where a wholesome meal with enticing meat dishes and fish and vegetables served family-style was served up by none other than Ffiona herself.
Fully cooked fare is served a few blocks south at eight ½ (151 East Eighth Avenue; 604-568-2703; eightanewhalf.ca), a new restaurant housed in a 1910 home mercifully overlooked by the wrecking ball.
There are simple guesthouses in the village serving local food, but mercifully, nothing yet on the beach itself.
The explainers steer mercifully clear of analogies, which often serve to obfuscate rather than illuminate the unintuitive world of quantum physics.
And wouldn't that phrase serve as the perfect inscription on the tombstone they would finally, mercifully, place, when the time came, over his grave?
Andy Murray, his serve clicking like a clock, hit a peak of perfection to hand the Australian teenager Thanasi Kokkinakis a mercifully quick three-set hiding in the opening match of the Davis Cup semi-final here on Friday afternoon.
"Our government is no longer serving us," she cries; it is time (in that age-old cliché of presidential candidates) for Americans to "take back their country".Jonathan Rauch has surveyed the same landscape but, mercifully, with wiser eyes.
