| The overwhelming consensus is that the lack of knowledge is probably the merciful way it should be. |
| Ariadne poses against a rocky outcrop and raises her hand in a rhetorical gesture that makes her seem irate and merciful, proud and humble. |
| The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions. |
| Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure. |
| Though it was a numb, lack-of-all sensation that laid claim to his body, it was far more merciful than the excruciation of the previous weeks. |
| It was perhaps merciful release for Wright-Phillips when his number was held up by the fourth official. |
