Sentence examples for this mercifully from inspiring English sources

All of this, mercifully, is told only in flashes.

So what better time to contemplate the basketball mortality of Kobe Bryant, to decide whether the new-look Clippers can contend or whether this mercifully short season will be the Thunder's coming-out party?

There are few jarring passages like this, mercifully, but when they do appear, they have the effect of inducing in the reader a strong desire to shake Julius for being an insufferable know-all.

The Orange Monkey Taken from that album PJ recorded suspended in a glass box near the Thames while drunk Brits hurled Big Macs at her, or something, this mercifully lacks the uncomfortable social critique of previous effort The Community Of Hope, concerning itself instead with less controversial imagery of mountains and shadows.

What if the divine human had never woken and all the ages were part of the fabric of his sleep?" Yes, one wants to ask, what if? Nothing that Mr. Ackroyd presents in this mercifully slender work makes us care very much one way or the other.

Heard but not seen on stage, J M Barrie's Tink is her usual Disney sorority Barbie-doll figure in this mercifully brief animated movie wherein she encounters her long-lost sister when breaking the rules and crossing from warm Pixie Hollow into the Winter Woods.

This is mercifully not the case.

"We mean to conquer them," he said, "and we shall do this most mercifully, the more speedily we do it".

Nissan, usually so fond of interior gimmickry, plays this one mercifully straight, with a sensible touch screen and clear attention to fit-and-finish rather than ephemeral design trends.

The moral of this book, mercifully free of psychological analysis, is that the human appetite for saucy tales will never go away; and that even if Mr Clinton were pure as snow, some tittle-tattle would be found to besmirch him.

"Events like this, whilst mercifully rare, remind us of the risks our personnel face in their work in Afghanistan as we approach the conclusion of the combat mission later this year.