redemptive

Example Sentences

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"The record really takes you through a journey, with some powerful themes around conflict, but Olivia leaves you with a track about the redemptive power of love, which is a really poignant final note".

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

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 • Jun. 24, 2025

Adoption among these organizations is still talked of as a being a redemptive choice.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

And history has proven over and over again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry