Sentence examples for more merciful if from inspiring English sources

One reading of the Astor files leads to the inescapable conclusion, a view shared by Hindley herself, that it might have been better, and more merciful, if she had been hanged at the outset.

If this more merciful new era means we have to put up with a third season of "The Killing," well, I'll try to live with that.

When brought face to face with this case, we concluded that perhaps Pakistan deserves its problems and that perhaps God would be more merciful to us a nation, if we were more forgiving and less judgmental as a people.

A fatal injection, if that were possible, seemed more merciful to him.

If you transgress, I warn you men will be no more merciful to you than those flies and ants are to that piece of fat".

Dictatorship, he added, "was more merciful".

It would have been more merciful".

Kaspar advocates a more merciful church.

"Yes, O more merciful than the gods, father — " "Your mother fucked a pig to make you".

All the more merciful to gulp a frigid jolt of LiV vodka, neat and jargon-free.

That was more merciful than some lawyers I spoke to had expected.