There had been time for but five months of this acclimatization thanks to the self-imposed reconstruction deadline of Sept. 11, 2002, that has mercilessly driven every aspect of the Winter Garden's rebuilding effort.

Seventy six families, comprising 300 individuals had not only been turned out of their houses, but had even - the unfortunate wretches - been mercilessly driven from the ditches to which they had been taken themselves for shelter.

She also wept at the thought of no tree, though Luther had mercilessly driven home the point that they yelled at each other every Christmas when they decorated the damned thing.

In a business driven mercilessly by the need for more cash, Rupert Murdoch was compelled to cede real cultural control to these amorphous forces.

From the very beginning, he'd been seized by his need to protect her, mercilessly driven to conquer her demons as if some instinct for self-preservation drove him.

Other knights came to their feet as Vaijon reeled back, mercilessly driven by his unrelenting foe, and Sir Charrow watched in a disbelief as great as that any of his brother knights felt.

By the Bank of the River Nile: 3,300 years ago, under the reign of Egyptian Pharaoh Seti, the Hebrews were an enslaved race, driven mercilessly to build Seti's growing empire.

This tiny park, which was really just an overgrown potted plant, should have driven that home mercilessly, puncturing the illusion that I was standing on anything but the deck of a vast machine.