The scene clearly is saying something about real life (Mercy is sixty-two, very old to be dancing, while the other man looked to be in his twenties), but not in a point-for-point way, let alone figuratively.
"I will say this: mercy is real; it is the first attribute of God.
Even in death, Bombay's citizens are at the mercy of real estate.
Chasing the game, Barcelona found itself permanently at the mercy of Real's relentless brilliance on the break.
There is a real, human yearning for mercy in it — Mariah's true cry for help from a place of near-suicidal despair: 'Sometimes this life can be so cold /(Lord) I pray you'll come and carry me home'.
He (and it is always a "he") could be an old-school, possibly-nude-under-that-bathrobe Los Angeles real estate lech like Mercy Rule favorite and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
The combination of very little money and constantly growing holdings has caused the museum to be at the mercy of whatever real estate deal it could find.
"The point of hell house is to show that there's a real hell, and that the mercy of Jesus is the way to heaven".
As a result, many hospitalized patients are at the mercy of a real-life game of telephone, where a message is passed from doctor to doctor — and frequently garbled in the process.
In ruling out a housing bailout, the Administration placed itself at the mercy of the real-estate market, which, after picking up in late 2009 and early 2010, went into another downward lurch.
