He continued to watch all during the graveside service, which was mercifully brief.

Those brethren's deaths were in fire and pain, though mercifully brief.

His head snapped back in an agony that was mercifully brief.

The cycles of their suffering and hardship were mercifully brief.

The minister was an old family friend of Nicole's, and he made the service mercifully brief.

The hysterics hadn't started until the third day, and they'd been mercifully brief.

I will make this as mercifully brief as I can.

The director's tea was very private, very quiet, and mercifully brief.

I was hit by a sudden, and mercifully brief, sense of vertigo.

The sexual act with him was mercifully brief, and he didn't appear to enjoy it at all.