Sentence examples for so mercifully from inspiring English sources

So it goes in The Budget, so mercifully free of all intimations of "Hardball" yammering and Drudge Report prying.

It's just that his vision of suffering is so scrupulous, and so mercifully free of histrionics, that it crosses the battle line of the argument.

The cavalry arriving at the last possible moment is one of the oldest tricks in the books, but I was so deeply engaged in the story (and so mercifully free of certain memories from the novels) that the moment came as the best kind of shock.

The consensus so far, mercifully, is that there is little to fear.

And yet these ancient nomads chose to think about the welfare of animals, to feel empathy for the taking of their lives for food, and to find ways to do so as mercifully as they could.

If so, they have mercifully failed, so far.

Yet, for a moment, the Web turned very, very earnest — mercifully so.

"The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" was sometimes unbearably long at bedtime, but mercifully so when my son was wearing his nebulizer mask.

It was what we wanted") and, mercifully, so did their guests, who danced the night away, breaking only to ask me (politely) about my credentials.

The account of the couple's courtship is brief, mercifully so, because the details of their domestic relationship are more compelling.

This approach (as opposed to a more conventional repertory model of preservation) is favored by many contemporary choreographers, who aren't, mercifully, so keen to freeze their steps in time.