redemptive
Example Sentences
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For those bands still trying to stay together, the night was redemptive.
From Los Angeles Times
He understood, as he sang in “Ring of Fire,” that love could be painful as well as pleasant and that either way it was redemptive.
“There’s this language of the discarded thing. The language of transformation and redemption. This all feels very redemptive to me.”
From Los Angeles Times
Some relationships do redemptively transform for the better and evolve into a much more nourishing and aligned version of however they existed before.
From Los Angeles Times
There is no way to make the social revolution America is experiencing painless, but it is still in our power to make it redemptive.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
