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Mercifully in sentence

56 examples of Mercifully in a sentence

The pair create an easy chemistry mercifully free of the self-conscious projection so prevalent in many contemporary "feel-good" movies.
Henry Fonda and Janice Rule have the same argument for two hours until, mercifully, some bloodshed makes the conversation moot.
Mercifully, he was killed early.
Mercifully we're saved from seeing his penis but are forced to hear horrible comments about his urination anyway.
Fortunately the film was mercifully short, and I was left with "huh???" The hit-and-run plot was so thin it was practically invisible.
(This sets the viewer up to expect appearances by Dr. Nietsneknarf and Mr. Namflow, which mercifully never happen!)
Not nearly as much as the critics who were forced to endure this film, however, or the audiences who were subjected to it during it's mercifully short release.
The scenes are (mercifully) short; but they achieve this by taking the most direct (and least interesting) route to conveying information or message.
This film makes one actually wish for a snake bite; at least the Fade To Black would come mercifully sooner!
I found it so boring I fell asleep about 4 times during the film and missed about half of it (mercifully).
If you ever thought endless scenes of soft-core sex set to lazy music could ever lull you to sleep more than a triple dose of Lunesta, you just pick up this DVD, buddy, and welcome to dreamland before you get halfway through the mercifully short running time.
The dialogue was mercifully abbreviated.
It is also what happened to Argentina recently: after a sudden stop in capital flows, the local currency lost half of its value and the economy lurched into recession (mercifully, a full financial crisis did not follow).
Forced into anonymity, he was also (mercifully) beyond public reach.
But with Justin Trudeau’s election the Canadians have gone back to sounding and acting like Canadians, and with the Abbott government’s mercifully early demise, any talk of the Anglosphere here has been banished to the far-right fringe.
Mercifully, South Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the death penalty – which South Africans eliminated at the same time we were liberated from apartheid – is unconstitutional.
Mercifully, the democratic process does make it difficult to execute a policy decision of this magnitude without public debate.
This time, mercifully, at least one week’s worth of business could be conducted before the troublemaking began.
Shorten and his team seem, overall, to be mercifully free of the indiscipline and character quirks and flaws that have afflicted Australia’s national leadership over the last decade.
The abbe Castanede, Chief of Police to the _Congregation_ along the whole of the Northern frontier, had mercifully not recognised him.
I then reproached myself with the liberties I had taken, and how I had been a snare to this gentleman, and that indeed I was principal in the crime; that now he was mercifully snatched out of the gulf by a convincing work upon his mind, but that I was left as if I was forsaken of God's grace, and abandoned by Heaven to a continuing in my wickedness.
I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position.
Mercifully, the King had not been in a state to understand the charges Tarvin had brought against her in the court-yard.
Almighty God! mercifully hast Thou preserved us!"
I rejected the voice of Providence, which had mercifully put me in a posture or station of life wherein I might have been happy and easy; but I would neither see it myself nor learn to know the blessing of it from my parents.
How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!
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