tender mercies

Idioms and Phrases

see leave to someone's tender mercies .

Example Sentences

Robert Duvall won for Tender Mercies in a role similar to Bridges'.

From The Daily Beast

So why not just send KSM to Port-au-Prince, I ask, and submit him to the tender mercies of Haitian justice?

From The Daily Beast

The fifteen unfortunates would have been left to the tender mercies of a precarious and grudging charity.

From Project Gutenberg

This permission indicates the tender mercies of the common law, and reminds us of the Helvetian peasant-woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Not so those of his foremost fellow prisoners, who were handed over to the tender mercies of Haynau.

From Project Gutenberg

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindnesses: for they have been ever of old.

From Project Gutenberg

It was evident the town had to be given up to the tender mercies of this mob of ruffians.

From Project Gutenberg