“It was then that he would mercifully pardon their past transgressions.”

“The interesting menu was mercifully free of obscure language and left me spoiled for choice.”

“While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk.”

“She got away with this, but are we to be mercilessly reduced to cogs in the wheels of medical care systems over which we have lost all control?”

“In 1209 every last inhabitant of the town was mercilessly hunted down and slain by the Albigensian crusaders.”

“Everything, including the weans, is being scrubbed mercilessly so that not a speck of dust or grime will survive into the New Year.”