Sentence examples for some merciful from inspiring English sources

It is well known that Benedict wants to transform the Church of Rome, which is not to say that he wants to make it more responsive to the realities of modern life as it is lived by Catholic women in the West, or by Catholic homosexuals, or even by the millions of desperately poor Catholic families in the Third World who are still waiting for some merciful dispensation on the use of contraception.

Many, if not most, of the people here are on pills, because for tonight by some merciful act of blue moon logic the gods and Enda Kenny have made them legal.

Many, if not most, of the people here are on pills, because for tonight – by some merciful act of blue moon logic – the gods and Enda Kenny have made them legal.

You probably feel like some sort of crippled, cupcake-hunting whale, listlessly bobbing in the ocean off the western coast of Mexico, hoping some merciful Ahab will happen upon you and order his big black Queequeg to hurl a harpoon into your heart, ending it all.

WINE LIST Long, varied and mostly very expensive, but with some relatively merciful opportunities for the keen-eyed.

Punctuating interviews with archival film and crime scene photographs (some in merciful black and white), "Cocaine Cowboys" chronicles the explosion of South Florida's "cocaine economy" and the ensuing turf wars between the Colombians and the Cubans.

She got in that boring Saturday, and then, by the grace of some glorious and merciful god, she did again, four days later.

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

Perhaps they were also merciful and took some pity on Clyde.

WASHINGTON — The most notable feature of the Justice Department file containing hundreds of formal applications beseeching President Bush to be merciful and grant some sort of clemency before he leaves office may be the one name that is not there.

In some towns, the invaders were more merciful; they just killed the heretics.