Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
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But if you thought DJ was being merciful, think again.
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So that is very human, very merciful, I must say.
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Once we turn 30, sweet merciful Streisand it gets worse.
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If God is merciful, they may survive these terrible times.
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Taking care of animals gives people a "merciful heart," he said.
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This is not because survivors, as a group, are especially merciful.
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She could be awful, or she could be a merciful goddess?
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She says she was once merciful, and regrets that period of kindness.
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God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
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And be merciful to people who are sorry for what they've done?
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Sweet merciful heavens, she looked like a kinky angel in that outfit.
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The judge ultimately was merciful towards Stork, and granted her time served.
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No matter what you've seen, the Almighty is still a merciful God.
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The cocktail gods are sometimes merciful when it comes to naming drinks.
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If God is all-merciful, how can there possibly be a hell?
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I slipped through the cathedral doors into the cool and merciful air.
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They demanded that others should be just, merciful, pure, peaceable and righteous.
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" She freely talks about redemption and "a merciful God," miracles and "moral leadership.
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Thank you for your loving and your merciful example to all of us.
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"The merciful Lord looks at us all without any distinction," Mr. Andrino said.
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It would be merciful if Iowans wielded the weapon of execution for us.
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The entire soggy affair came to a merciful end at 8:35 p.m.
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Moreover, the merciful rarity of these situations also makes them harder to prepare for.
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The bunkmate Sands sisters meet a merciful end that should have happened seasons ago.
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The headphones are a merciful 385g (14oz) and sit very lightly on the head.
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"In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious," the statement begins.
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Now that Sansa's in a position of power herself, she is far from merciful.
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Her husband comes in from work, sees the costumes, raises an eyebrow, remains merciful.
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Sadly, their God, rather than being loving and merciful, is small, stingy and petty.
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When they got back home, they decided to bring Jawbreaker to a merciful end.
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Aegon I was said to be a fierce and focused, but pious and merciful ruler.
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Republicans are thinking wishfully if they believe this campaign is coming to a merciful end.
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Do I have a tendency to want to be merciful if I'm on a jury?
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A merciful deity disabled pictures, forcing dickpic senders to creep you out with their prose.
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A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants.
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Perhaps they'll finally give the boxcar children a merciful end and conclusion to their adventures.
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"She was a woman of faith; may God be merciful to her," Archbishop Gregory said.
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Surely, God is most merciful to you"; another warns, "And do not throw yourselves in destruction.
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We can be aggressive and we can be merciful and in love and full of hatred.
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There is, of course, no acceptable way for deeply unacceptable films to reach their merciful conclusions.
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It seems like he was pretty ticked at first -- but quickly changed his attitude to merciful.
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Gratitude finds ways to express itself; the result is a more humane, tender and merciful society.
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How long their subjugation may be necessary is known and ordered by a wise Merciful Providence.
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Aegon I was said to be a fierce and focused, but a pious and merciful ruler.
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The magnificently dressed emperor doesn't hesitate in his merciful gesture, while the officer accompanying him recoils.
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"Oh God, be merciful to them, forgive them and make their abode the highest heaven," he wrote.
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Of course Twitter was not as merciful as the other panellists as word of the mistake spread.
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It even comes complete with prayers that our showrunner god will be merciful toward our favorite characters.
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All we can do now is suffer their great and mighty wrath and pray they are merciful.
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You can watch this teaser at 2x speed, thusly ending the experience a merciful seven seconds early.
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Everyone knew the end was coming and quite a few people, myself included, felt it was merciful.
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William is merciful to the early James Delos clones, reluctant to put them through any unwanted suffering.
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Others, who presumably have merciful employers, decided to avoid the day of drama and work from home.
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Sleep is merciful on my body, but I often wake up in the middle of the night.
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So we ask that you are merciful to their people and, God willing, they will release us.
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The announcement was a signal of the pope's vision of a more welcoming, merciful and inclusive church.
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An answer to how we got here," she added after asking jurors to make the "merciful verdict.
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She must be judged, and being allowed to live with these women would be the most merciful option.
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Merciful God, although you made all people in your image, we confess that we live with deep division.
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"True faith is one that makes us more charitable, more merciful, more honest and more humane," he said.
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It was a merciful but horrible purgatory to have the weight of that meaningful and yet meaningless responsibility.
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That day, I did myself the shameful, merciful favor of buying a pair of pants that fit comfortably.
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If you choose the latter option, remember to be merciful to the rest of us crammed in coach.
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Boston's meager winter so far may feel like a merciful respite after the pummeling the city endured in 20153.
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Almond's is an incisive and merciful take, though what he sees as echo chambers are more frequently torture chambers.
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Others were endearingly incompetent, but crowds were merciful: the hapless Chagossians were cheered off the field after every loss.
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By the end, it was easier to root for a merciful disappearance than it was for the player himself.
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He is calling upon each of us to be truly merciful with one another, in real and meaningful ways.
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But as this season edges closer to merciful completion, Bowles determined that a desultory present trumped the potential future.
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And after months of merciful calm, the thud of car-bombs can be heard again on highways out of Baghdad.
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That husband, Timothy D. Stickney's temper-challenged Capulet, could use the reasonable, merciful moderation of the grave Prince (Bill Christ).
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These steps, I will haplessly shout into the void until sweet merciful death claims me, include getting your flu shot.
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That was the onset of crazy thinking, that margin of delirium signalling the body's merciful shutting down of the mind.
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He learns not to trust strangers (particularly when they hang out in dubious waterfront dives) and even to be merciful.
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Just as with last week's relative calm, it's unacceptable, no matter how merciful it may seem relative to past weeks.
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From the start of 2018 to this week, the Senators have operated like an organization that welcomes the merciful end.
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While releasing a captive fish into the wild can feel merciful, it tends to do a lot more harm than good.
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Some are pleading for the FDA to establish merciful regulation so that sick patients can have better access to regenerative medicine.
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"Allah is merciful," he said, when asked about media reports that he suffered from severe diabetes, liver damage and heart disease.
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The merciful outcome — unless he's convicted again, at a new trial — is for him to go free, sooner rather than later.
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I spent those 48 hours sh—ing this acrid black sludge, rage-puking and praying for the sweet, merciful release of death.
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A restaurant in the US, however, is taking another approach to being merciful: It gets the crustaceans stoned before steaming them alive.
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It's unlikely Jon will be feeling merciful about the man who nearly killed his little "brother" (read: cousin) and definitely paralyzed him.
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On Tuesday, the contentious race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump comes to what many beleaguered voters would call a merciful conclusion.
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It was the doctor who made the merciful decision to stop the fight at the end of the ten-minute first round.
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"My team got this tonight," Bryant says in the video, which is still available on Facebook thanks to the merciful internet gods.
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If it doesn't happen, maybe the merciful thing to do for Apple is to just admit that the Mac Pro is dead.
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Francis, who has made numerous calls for a more merciful Church, has changed procedures to make obtaining annulments less cumbersome and expensive.
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While this looks brutal, it's actually quite the merciful play—Ramadan could have seriously injured himself if he landed on his head.
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Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — Are you feeling warmed up for the solving weekend after the challenging but relatively merciful Andrew Zhou puzzle yesterday?
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Keep on flattering God, tell Him how great He is, how good, how merciful, and He'll prepare a second Hitler for you.
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But the best news here suggests a merciful awareness of diminishing returns: In its entirety, the album lasts just under 35 minutes.
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This was merciful, as Ortega had absorbed over three hundred strikes in the previous four rounds and was a swollen, bloody mess.
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The restarted F.B.I. background check that seemed, a week ago, like a merciful concession to decency has instead been a cover-up.
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"In the end, the Rzucek family was much more merciful toward him than he was toward them," Mr. Rourke, the prosecutor, said.
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It called for a Church that is "welcoming and merciful ... and which loves everyone, even those who are not following the perceived standards".
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"If we had died by bombardment it would have been more merciful," said Saqr who has been in the camp for four months.
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Thucydides's history portrays the Spartans as reluctant to go to war and often more merciful than their more liberal-minded opponents, the Athenians.
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"Merciful Lord, take in the souls of the dead and comfort those who are suffering as a result of this calamity," he said.
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In June, she posted on Instagram that she would "no longer be merciful towards malicious comments," and suggested she may take legal action.
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But those familiar with his career said he might have a more merciful approach, having worked with a local prison re-entry group.
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Inside or out, he called the shots — and shots were the most merciful form of punishment meted out to this group's vicious enemies.
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As the class came to a close, some of these volunteers trickled into the room like parents waiting for an afterschool program's merciful end.
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" And the first words any Muslim says before doing pretty much anything are, "In the name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful.
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But the image Blackbeard portrayed to his victims was in defiance of the man himself, who was described as shrewd, calculating, and surprisingly merciful.
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Is he correct that letting the wildlings south of the Wall is a merciful and wise decision, given the pending war with the undead?
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Thai Raksa Chart officials told reporters the party did not violate the electoral law and it would ask the Constitutional Court to be "merciful".
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" He says that while the militants are often merciful to their captives, even feeding them from the communal cooking pot, "sometimes they are harsh.
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"In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficial [in Arabic]," Mateen told the 911 operator early on the morning, according to the FBI.
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Pierce O'Donnell, a lawyer for Shelly Sterling, said the decision "puts a merciful end" to Donald Sterling's "quixotic litigation campaign" over the Clippers sale.
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As the team's first season nears its merciful end, catcher-infielder Ashley Graeter has a more appropriate name for his club: the Yardless Goats.
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Deneen and his fellow localists are cast as virtuous souls who would necessarily make discerning, merciful and respectful yeoman farmers once the revolution comes.
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Caroline Dhavernas of "Hannibal" plays Mary Harris, brilliant emergency-room surgeon by day and merciful dispenser of death to the terminally ill by night.
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JOHN MCMILLIAN, ATLANTA To the Editor: Please, if there is a merciful God, please release us from the seemingly unending fixation with Hillary Clinton.
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The more I know Jesus, the more I trust him as merciful and am content to leave questions of the afterlife in his hands.
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It also represents a continuation of "a more forgiving, merciful direction for the Church" since Pope Francis began his papacy in 2013, according to CNN.
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I'm a big booster for Theon's journey into mediocrity, and Yara's "spoiled little cunt" dialogue is a merciful end to Gamergate in the Iron Islands.
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That's why when you're watching a movie together, and there's a sex scene, everyone becomes motionless and silently begs for the merciful release of death.
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His hard-line immigration stance clashes with the more merciful views of the church, many of whose members have served proselytizing missions in Latin America.
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In trying to be merciful to her injured opponent, a woman she knew personally, she had missed out on the coveted WMC 112-pound championship.
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"A merciful heart is able to be a place of refuge for those who are without a home or have lost their home," Francis said.
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"The countries of provenance express the universality of the church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men on Earth," Francis added.
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With this exhortation, Francis calls for the church and its pastors to be more responsive and merciful in trying to engage these members of his flock.
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In Latin, he prayed that Cardinal Law "be given a merciful judgment...freed from punishment, reconciled to the Father...deserve to enter fully into everlasting happiness".
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Frazier, dominating the middle rounds with the fury of his youth, had been battered by the champion throughout the three rounds prior to Futch's merciful decision.
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"This was simply, in my opinion, by the grace of a merciful God that we had a female that goes to check her mailbox," Griffin said.
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On the other hand there's New Coke, Project Ginger, and disco; each burning white-hot for an instant before flaming out in spectacular, but merciful fashion.
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The monetary benefits from this merciful outreach will help the state in ways that would never be thought of as connected to improving an inmate's life.
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"The countries of provenance express the universality of the church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men on Earth," he added.
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"It is the role model, so if the role model is good, it will reflect on the world in a better, more merciful way," he said.
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Yet this image of perpetual suffering and hopeless finality fails to reconcile with the infinitely merciful deity manifested in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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In those closing sequences, "Fleabag" turns a trick worthy of Gypsy Rose Lee herself, exposing the merciful story that's hidden many layers beneath the cruel one.
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Offred herself has a private version of the Lord's Prayer and refuses to believe that this regime has been mandated by a just and merciful God.
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And when John's heartbeat started right up it was like, 'Thank you, Lord, for being so merciful for me,' which just set my faith forever in bedrock.
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His death tells a story of martyrdom and poses a question to consider: How can they emulate him and be merciful and just in their everyday lives?
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" While others had written letters to her asking her to be merciful to Mr. van der Zwaan, she said, "the accomplished lawyer did not write one himself.
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All the 13 cast members speak with merciful clarity and directness, so you're rarely in doubt as to who's who and why they behave as they do.
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The mere chance of her being alive seems a surprisingly merciful move from the folks in charge — then again, she's nothing to them but a fertile womb.
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Purity culture as it was taught to my generation hurt many people and kept them from knowing the loving, merciful God at the heart of Christian faith.
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Part of this year's Brits Off Broadway festival, this misanthropic comedy of disaster suggests that a life-obliterating apocalypse might be not only just, but also merciful.
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In some ways the firing is merciful, as she was, at times, verbally abusive to the employee even as the employee was helping to fix her messes.
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At the merciful end, my politician's instincts took hold and I approached the edge of the stage to shake hands with a group that swelled against it.
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This merciful act was one of many that America took to relieve the suffering of a natural disaster in one of the hemisphere's most troubled, impoverished nations.
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After a monster "bomb cyclone" and frigid Arctic blasts that set some new records on the US East Coast, temperatures have been a bit more merciful this week.
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The first five days following the introduction of the agreement provided merciful relief for Syrian civilians, especially the hundreds of thousands trapped in rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
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Portrayed as a strong, cunning but merciful leader, Tomyris creates a thousands-strong all-female military unit which helps tip the scales in the final battle against Cyrus.
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It is, without a doubt, the beating heart of the show: Negan's strongman, totalitarian worldview is the distorted, oppressive version of Rick's more merciful, collaborative conception of leadership.
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But Dr. LaHaye said that his only mission was to spread the Gospel by showing the gruesome perdition ahead for unbelievers and the merciful salvation awaiting faithful Christians.
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How comforting our most deeply held political convictions are, in contrast to our love, which, though inexplicable, is somehow always — to use one my friend's favorite words — merciful.
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I want your opinion: I don't think injecting you with a lethal drug would be truly merciful, but it would, in every sense of the word, be 'strained.
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The God he describes in his work is neither a stern lawgiver nor a merciful redeemer but a close presence to whom we can always turn for intimacy.
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Francis has not changed church doctrine that calls homosexual acts sinful, but he has shown a more merciful approach to people on the margins, including gays and lesbians.
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The Associated Press reported last week that Francis had lessened sanctions against a handful of pedophile priests in an effort to apply his vision of a merciful church.
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In July, Jim Coleman, speaking to the online news service Circa News, issued a plea to top Taliban commanders to be "kind and merciful" and let the couple go.
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Why it matters: This might be the merciful end to an albatross of an investment for Cerberus, which over-leveraged, over-consolidated and completely misjudged political and reputational risk.
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The final meeting of the regular season between the teams was a merciful conclusion to a hard-fought series of games, and perhaps a preview of more to come.
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I have spent whole days, sunrise to sunset, roiling around in my bed, rubbing my stomach, moaning, and begging a merciful spirit to end the nauseous agony consuming me.
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"All glory is to Allah, the magnificent and merciful, for it is only by his grace I was successfully able to execute the manchester bombing," the faked message reads.
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He also begged U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick to be merciful next week when sentencing his son, Cameron, who was also convicted as part of the insider trading scheme.
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A long life, a fulfilling career as a schoolteacher, a merciful end (relatively speaking), three children and a devoted husband: what was necessary had been accomplished, and accomplished rightly.
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That's because the opposite of Gilead's warped version of Christianity isn't atheism — it's a tight, stubborn grip on an older, kinder, more merciful understanding of a God who accepts everyone.
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But in promoting a more merciful, tolerant tone, Pope Francis has discouraged bishops around the world from diving into culture war issues that have alienated some faithful from the church.
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As he faced the prospect of hanging, he became "skittish, excited", but despite the urgings of the gutter press, who branded him a "half-formed monster", the jury was merciful.
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Trump has promised that his speech will be short—it will reportedly only last 20 merciful minutes, which is surprising given the length of some of Trump's other written speeches.
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"God's will be done," Annie prays, and while she has His attention she adds a prayer that He will be merciful tomorrow when she returns to Willy and the kids.
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Lovecraft believed that people's inability to truly understand their reality was the most merciful thing in the world and that doing so would be enough to drive anyone to insanity.
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Prosecutors had strong incentives to be harsh rather than lenient (or merciful) when dealing with defendants, and those incentives helped shape the criminal justice system as we know it today.
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His name means "just and merciful," and the state media are worshipful about his "brilliant intelligence, military acumen, matchless courage and outstanding art of command," as one publication put it.
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"Thanks to the help of technology," he said, "we can pray, sing and celebrate this merciful love that the Lord gives us, and that no border will keep us from sharing."
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" While Reynolds admitted that there "have been speed bumps and sinkholes" throughout his journey, he has "learned gratitude for the lessons my merciful Savior has allowed me to experience and process.
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Rather than wait for the next merciful president to correct unjust sentences decades after they are imposed, we should reduce the likelihood that they will be imposed in the first place.
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By this time, going fast is by far the more merciful option for finishing off what's happening onstage at the American Airlines Theater, where "The Cherry Orchard" opened on Sunday night.
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She was properly wounded from months of torture, so I gave her a merciful death as she wouldn't have made it out of there even if Geralt wanted to rescue her.
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I believe in a God who is above all things merciful, and so I trust they are embraced by a comforting love that is wonderful beyond our capacity even to imagine it.
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The launch of Movies Anywhere should be the merciful, final blow that puts an end to UltraViolet, one of the entertainment industry's first attempts at putting together a comprehensive digital locker service.
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There was the Steve Curry who was named in legal papers, and then there was the real Steve Curry, the "natural, living, breathing, feeling, and merciful, human being," as he put it.
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As he did in the United States and elsewhere, the Pope encouraged his huge audiences to adopt more merciful approaches to the poor, elderly and the young, but offered no policy prescriptions.
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Cody "No Love" Garbrandt says he was MERCIFUL to Dominick Cruz -- claiming he could've knocked him out "multiple times" at UFC 207 ... but was having too much fun toying with the guy.
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I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.
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Her parents told her that God was more merciful than she thought, and that people who did good would go to Heaven on the Day of Judgment, regardless of what they believed.
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Ladies and gentlemen, unless the Democrats once again scramble their kangaroo court rules, today's hearing marks the merciful end of this spectacle in the Impeachment Committee, formerly known as the Intelligence Committee.
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Though that's pretty merciful compared to the $88 million they were originally alleged to be paying for a full professional boxing match between the two that would have ended exactly the same way.
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He irritatedly begins to answer in earnest, catches himself, and then weaves a merciful lie: They are at the Horseman summer lake house in Michigan, where both Beatrice and BoJack suffered family trauma.
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But the weather was merciful and the rural roads well paved, offering a near-seamless tableau of shorn acreage upon which the occasional silo or farmhouse materialized in a state of heartbreaking isolation.
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When he travels to the South Pacific war front with the army, he leaves her at Yuko's mercy, and Yuko, whose anger is born out of tragedy, is not in a merciful mood.
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They are twisted, feline mutants, the kind that should be writhing on the ground and meowing pleas for a merciful death, The Fly-style, not dancing and singing about whatever Cats is about.
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That position put him increasingly at odds with a pope who, in a letter to Argentine bishops, once wrote that there were "no other interpretations" to his document than the more merciful one.
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You could repeat this cycle every few years when their old MP3 player died, until we all eventually died and the heat death of our Solar System brought capitalism to a merciful end.
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I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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Corey Brettschneider, a constitutional law professor at Brown University and Fordham Law School, said pardon power is meant to be a merciful gesture to those who have suffered at the hands of the law.
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He said that he was concerned that the call for Persky's resignation would deter other judges from being merciful for fear of the repercussions, prompting them to issue harsh sentences without considering other factors.
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If one of you surrenders now and tells us the truth, we will be merciful with you, but if you don't, we will be —" Mr. Jeza paused, perhaps to choose the right word — "difficult.
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And once inside, Jaime himself offered Olenna a merciful death via a cup of poisoned wine, in a scene that gave the great Diana Rigg one final showcase before her exit from the series.
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Pope Francis set the canonization date Tuesday, paving the way for the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor to become the centerpiece of his yearlong focus on the Catholic Church's merciful side.
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As we bring our locomotive analogy to a merciful close, it is worth glancing back down the line to see all the broken bodies of those many pitiful idiots, stretching way back to the horizon.
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Indeed, they threaten to retaliate against our family, that their group will do us harm and punish us, so we ask that you are merciful to their people, and god willing, they will release us.
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Francis has been hailed by many gay people for being the most merciful pope toward them in recent history, and conservative Catholics have criticized him for making comments that they say are ambiguous about sexual morality.
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Countries will forever try to present themselves exactly the way they want to be seen: as more dependable, more liberal, more merciful, more awe-inspiring, or better at the business of government than they actually are.
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In London, the thing came to a merciful end with McGregor regaining some semblance of form and, thanks to Mayweather's flights of homophobia and misogyny, coming out looking like the hero of this farcical pugilistic fairytale.
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As the merciful shadow crept across the court, it left a strip of red clay and white tape shimmering in sunlight, allowing all to see the spot where Stan Wawrinka's slicing backhand had hit the line.
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"We Christians and Muslims believe in God, the Creator and the Merciful, who created people to live like brothers and sisters, respecting each other in their diversity, and helping one another in their needs," he said.
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And the Dragon Queen's gambit to take Casterly Rock succeeds, but it's a hollow, meaningless victory: the Lannisters have moved their bannermen to Highgarden, where they take out the Tyrells and offer Lady Olenna a merciful death.
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It feels backward at this point to place faith in a God that rewards you most for being a merciful person, even to those who treat you without an ounce of respect or recognition of your humanity.
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At least we've still got a few merciful years of The Office on Netflix left before the contract expires and we all have to start shelling out $6.99 a month to watch it on NabiscoTV or something.
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Francis has been hailed by many in the gay community for being the most merciful pope toward them in recent history and conservative Catholics have criticized him for making comments they say are ambiguous about sexual morality.
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In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles must be applied retroactively, but in a couple of rare measures, judges had rejected Krasner's resentencing proposals as too merciful.
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The Speights-Biyombo Dynamic Duo Was Fun While it Lasted RIP to this tandem, which (might've) died a merciful death after Jonathan Isaac returned to action last Sunday, prompting Frank Vogel to inject common sense into his rotation.
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The battle lines were basically drawn over what it means for the church to be pastoral and merciful in its approach to people who are not living in accord with the Christian ideal of the intact, nuclear family.
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Because it sure does seem to favor the poor and the merciful and those who in worldly terms don't have a lot but who have the spirit that God recognizes as being at the core of love and salvation.
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But in the final analysis, the two full seasons that the AMC series devoted to its prosecution became a drawn-out slog, one which finally came to an emotional, somewhat predictable, literally merciful end with Sunday's eighth-season finale.
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Cercas resolves to find the merciful soldier, and, with help from his friend the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, he makes contact with a veteran of the Republican army, Antoni Miralles, now living in an old people's home in Dijon.
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As I stand beside/below them on Madison Square Garden's sideline during a recent morning practice, it dawns on me that these shoulders should have come to mind when Howard's awkward tenure with the Atlanta Hawks came to a merciful conclusion.
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Image: Jim Cooke/GizmodoAs 2017 wheezes to its merciful end and the social media titans reckon with growing backlash, Twitter's largely forgotten video streaming app Periscope has gained an insidious second life as a hub for seekers of child pornography.
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GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place.
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What awaits residents in the Middle and Upper Keys is unclear, but there are signs that Irma, which made its first US landfall on Cudjoe Key, about 20 miles east of Key West, was anything but merciful to the Conch Republic.
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We politely tell him yes, we liked it very much, that this is our second year here, and that we have enjoyed the thoughtful curation, the luminous charisma of Chance the Rapper, and the merciful efficiency of the shuttle system.
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This should not surprise people familiar with this pope, whose episcopal motto is "miserando atque eligendo" — "by having mercy and choosing" — which refers to the merciful gesture of Jesus calling Matthew, a hated tax collector, to become one of his disciples.
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BAKHITA A Novel of the Saint of Sudan By Véronique Olmi Translated by Adriana Hunter Véronique Olmi's novel retells the story of a strong young woman who was exploited and dehumanized before finding herself in more merciful and hopeful circumstances.
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When you get to hell—after they peel off all your skin, assign you an eternal torturer, walk you through the Scorpion Room, and force you to take a bath in molten lava—you're offered a brief, merciful break for lunch.
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Rufus, moreover, is injured enough — and the horrors that wait for him outside are savage enough — that giving him poison him can seem merciful, and not like a way to excuse Jamie and Claire for turning him over to the mob.
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Watching anything for 40 hours straight will demolish your soul and leave you a crumbling, broken husk, as if you're living out a protracted version of the end of Infinity War but without the merciful speed of a single snap.
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During this year's record-breaking hurricane season, oil rigs and refineries were just as exposed as any structure on the precarious Gulf Coast, and their owners were limited to the same options as everyone else: evacuate, prepare, and hope the storm was merciful.
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Would the Bergen be merciful and chomp off your head first, like my seven-year-old self eating a chocolate bunny on Easter, or would it take slow, lingering bites, like my 27-year-old self getting down on a pork bun?
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In a season of merciful illusions, the sequence is an unsettling and chaotic break from the narrative — a vision of a society as likely to eat itself as to heal, in which true justice is forever a hypothetical endpoint on a receding horizon.
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" In this context, von Roon describes the "switch to euthanasia" (that is, the advent of the gas chambers) as merciful: "Since these people were in any case condemned to death, would not a quick, unexpected, painless end free them from long woes?
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While the three maintained their innocence, two other doctors told me they had intentionally hastened patients' deaths at the hospital, something they believed would have violated laws and professional ethics in normal times, but was merciful and excusable given the desperate situation.
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"For all the efficiency and order that mark Japanese society, I have sensed a yearning, too, for something greater: a profound desire to create an ever more humane, compassionate and merciful society," he said in his last event before departing for Rome.
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The birth of streaming television has given us a merciful respite from the mind-numbing ad breaks that finance broadcast TV. But you can't keep a bad thing down, and Amazon is reportedly developing an ad-supported, free version of its popular Prime video service.
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But little does he know that another group is marching dozens of captured fighters toward the Hilltop, setting up a potential conflict between the mourning Aaron, who just lost his partner to the Saviors, and the merciful Jesus who wants to keep them safely imprisoned.
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Officially it considers same-sex unions "an error," but Pope Francis said last month that lawmakers "should never forget the necessary, merciful love towards people who, as a free choice or as a result of unlucky life circumstances, live" in that state of error.
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Instead of hoping in vain that the mass shooting onslaught might relent, Americans should reflect on what it means that this is what we consider merciful—when "just" 29 people are wounded and four more killed in one week's worth of mass gun violence.
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"I pray every day that God is merciful with me because I know how imperfect I am and I always feel that I have to show the same kind of mercy to other people in judgment until they're actually proven guilty," Lieberman added. Fmr.
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"Open your hearts and minds to discern the merciful plan of God, who asks us to rise above personal prejudices and conflicts between groups and communities, in order to undertake a courageous fraternal journey in the light of an authentic culture of encounter," he said.
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Arya is a faceless soldier who has easily murdered dozens of people, but she can also be merciful when she believes it's right: She sacrificed the Lannister soldiers (and Ed Sheeran) and refused to kill the actress Lady Crane for the Many-Faced God.
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Dr. Luke remains one of the most powerful producers in the world, and the problem with Sony's merciful olive branch to Kesha is that working without him under Sony might cause the record label to take the promotion and resources put into her future albums less seriously.
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"The BasedGod" wants to speak,As life unravels and superstars make decisions that change lifes, welcome home KD the curse is lifted - Lil B The BasedGod is merciful and forgiving, as evidenced by him killing a bug last night and showing remorse for all living things.
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And that was probably a good call, after A Million Ways to Die in the West (which got a generous 33% on Rotten Tomatoes), Ted 2 (a merciful 42%) and the 2013 Oscars hosting gig (in which he probably dodged a few rotten tomatoes, or should've).
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Holy Mass for Migrants ①#Pope: The Lord promises refreshment/freedom to all the oppressed of our world, but he needs us to fulfill his promise ... Above all, he needs our hearts to show his merciful love towards the least, the outcast, the abandoned, the marginalized. pic.twitter.
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Soon after the attack, the German police arrested one suspect with what were described as "Islamic links" after a letter was found close to the site of the bombings that started: "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful," and claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The authors had to travel to the farthest corners of the earth to find the bounty, vitality and ferocity of a natural world still struggling with each day's merciful rising and setting — as well as a host of new storms, floods and fires, to be certain.
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After almost 255 years of relentless prison-building in the United States, of aggressive policing and a war on drugs that goes after our most vulnerable citizens, the movement for a more merciful criminal justice system had begun to seem, if not unstoppable, at least plenty powerful.
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"A priest needs to think of his own sins," he says in this book, "to listen with tenderness, to pray to the Lord for a heart as merciful as his, and not to cast the first stone because he, too, is a sinner who needs to be forgiven."
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The best farms not only give their fish a nice life, but also a merciful death, corralling them at harvest into smaller schools and sidestepping struggles in a net or on a line — to reduce stress for the fish, which can lead to a soft, sometimes chewy consistency.
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" According to Ziermann, the afflicted would recite prayers in front of the altarpiece that would have been similar to the following: "Anthony, venerable Shepherd, who renders holy those who undergo horrible torments, who suffer the greatest maladies, who burn with hellfire: oh merciful Father, pray to God for us.
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Smith's 21991-footer had fallen at the halftime buzzer, pushing the Cleveland Cavaliers' lead over the Celtics from 14 to 1003, a margin that would grow to 2100 before the merciful conclusion of a 14-2111 annihilation Friday night in Game 2 of an equally lopsided Eastern Conference finals.
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In the meantime, you'll probably die a lot and find yourself picking up from not-quite where you left off with a brand new character, a rogue-lite element that Sunless Skies has brought on from the previous game, while also including a "merciful mode" that makes it optional.
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He praised her strength of faith and called on her continued protection of observant Christians: "We ask her to keep us and support us; so that we may have a strong, joyous and merciful faith... May she help us to be holy, so that we might meet with her, one day, in Heaven."
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They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself, merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly even to His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.
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If we weren't born Muslims ourselves and had not personally experienced the kind, merciful and peaceful side of our religion, we would also have a hard time believing that Islamic faith teaches compassion, mercy and kindness and not the savagery that is on display by the likes of ISIS and Al Qaeda.
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And so when, almost 30 years later, he painted the Last Judgment in that same chapel, his fresco "embodied a long-abhorred heresy […] doubting the eternal torment of sinners and the vindictive retributive nature of the Last Judgment," — a "merciful heresy," or what Steinberg calls a Vatican II vision of the Last Judgment.
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But rejecting an overwhelmingly qualified candidate like Michelle Jones for no reason other than her criminal record sends a clear message from the bastion of liberalism on the banks of the Charles: If something is to be done to make America more just and merciful, somebody else is supposed to do it.
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While the bishops say Francis - and not the ghost of his predecessor - will be the centerpiece of World Youth Day events, the omission reflects a sense of disquiet among senior clergy about his calls for a more inclusive and merciful Church, a message that contrasts with the preaching in many Polish churches.
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He wisely leaves the full-throated choir alone in the jubilant opener 'Every Hour' and to awe in the climax of 'Selah,'" Brian Josephs wrote for EW. "'Jesus Is King' is also merciful: It's as unimaginative about its hollow ideas as Ye, but it is a comparatively tuneful 27 minutes that isn't as crippled by prideful ugliness.
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In the third, we watch as if we were members of the audience of the Municipal Theater in Stockton-on-Tees, where the tour is coming to its merciful end, the production having disintegrated so thoroughly that, well, as Dolly indicates, nobody really knows where they are in the script, or whether they should bother with the script at all.
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He said in the face of such consequences -- in this case, a baby who could suffer greatly -- he thinks the church might not be so hard line, especially under the leadership of Pope Francis, who has taken a more merciful stance on many social issues from abortion to homosexuality and is himself from South America, where Zika has taken such a heavy toll.
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The tone might be lighter, but there are quests here to rank beside Wild Hunt's most memorable one with a spoon-obsessed wight is a treat that proffers later rewards if you go about it the merciful way, and it's not every day that you find yourself using your witcher senses to find the whereabouts of a statue's family jewels.
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In another Pamela Geller story purporting to be about a "Muslim father" killing a 4-year-old girl, Sands-Pingot said, "I would invite people to read the postings of young muslim men yo [sic] this blog...unbelievably threatening...and does not sound to be peaceful and merciful to me…" In October 2013, he posted a Facebook status about the Saturday Night Live character Pat.
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Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdDemocrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges Republicans offer support for Steve King challenger House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE (Texas) – offered a proposal that accomplishes a just, merciful, and humble plan to secure our border; and the future of the undocumented young people (Dreamers) who were brought to this country through no fault of their own.
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In the app's promo video, for example, the use case is to encourage someone to take a selfie when they're out on a run, which… I don't know about you, but I know that I definitely don't look my best when Runkeeper has yet again beaten me to within a fraction of an inch of my life, dripping with sweat, wishing for a swift and merciful death.
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Avengers: Endgame was probably good, but I refuse to see it because it has already been done, the final, merciful end to a 20-film saga, the same movie over and over again, tweaked for minor adjustments in plot and character and fed to the moviegoing public like corn to cattle, only for more Marvel movies to come down the pipeline, superhero after superhero after superhero.
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The holiday season is a time of togetherness and American faith—a merciful few weeks where the news cycle slows down and family takes priority over politics—but as I survey the destruction over the past 12 months, the last thing I want to do is pretend that everything is OK. Christmas has always been a bit of a lie, and that was before the current age of debilitating nihilism.
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And so, instead of taking those merciful few hours of peace before breaking news broke us again to say, read a book or take a walk or — given the hour — just go to sleep, the news networks, horse-race politics media, and the far-too-online political commentators decided to engage in the following ridiculous behavior:Claim that this delay would force party bosses to push the Iowa caucus later in the calendar year.
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