tender mercies

Example Sentences

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The bus to the Polish border was a capsule of exhaustion, grief and tender mercies.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2022

Don’t let the tender mercies of Thanksgiving fall by the wayside too soon just to get an early jump on the sales of the approaching Christmas season.

From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2018

Bacall was then subject to the tender mercies of Paul Schrader, America’s veteran art film auteur, for his 2007 film The Walker.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2014

McVeigh, moreover, was not unique in soliciting Vidal’s tender mercies.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2012

If I’m caught, it’s to Serena’s tender mercies I’ll be delivered.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood