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coup de grâce
(redirected from mercy killing)

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Whether natural selection, mercy killing, or suicide, intimations of death have gotten artists through many a hard night.
Artist curates: DIY by Scanlan, Joe / Artforum International
David Bianculli of the New York Daily News calls the decision to pull it ``a mercy killing.
SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Everyone spits tangy rejoinders like Preston Sturges characters, but the air of harmless eccentricity has been replaced by a haze of mental breakdown, mercy killing, discreet drug abuse, discreet anti-Semitism, and not-so-discreet homophobia.
A post-screwball comedy: Igby Goes Down tries to wed the "zany rich" ... by Stuart, Jan / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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