Sentences with phrase «entirely at the mercy»

«We are entirely at the mercy of our friends and relations.»

It's not intrinsically evil, but it does mean that as a patient, you are entirely at the mercy of your provider.

Since this new research indicates an active role for corals in developing their skeletons, it suggests that they are not entirely at the mercy of the ocean's chemical makeup.

They are entirely at the mercy of their husbands who themselves may be indulging in wanton sex.

Fiction lends itself to the element of surprise, putting the viewer entirely at the mercy of the imagination and cunning of the author.

Credit cards leave you entirely at the mercy of the bank's willingness to extend credit to you at the very moment you need it the most.

They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy.

Woodman's work, perhaps as much as his own, is shackled by the gaze of received interpretation, entirely at the mercy of viewers who follow restricted ways of seeing and understanding.

It was a frustrating period where we were entirely at the mercy of the utility company to fix the phases coming into our building.

Not exact matches

The amorality of the untutored human beings thus leaves them significantly, though not entirely, at the mercy of the circumstances and social context in which they find themselves.

In this case it works well enough for most sources of video, but it's not entirely infallible as you are at the mercy of the browser to get you to the site in the first place, and serve you the desktop site rather than the mobile site.