redemptive
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Redemptive and uplifting and all those corny words.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2022
He also praises her, with tongue only partly in cheek, as “Pioneer of Arts and Letters, Champion of the Voiceless and Redemptive Savior of the Western world.”
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2018
Redemptive moments in sport are supposed to be grand affairs, soundtracked by emotive strings, preferably viewed in slow motion.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2014
The defeat, carefully reconsidered, became his Redemptive Loss, the thing that would absolve Dukakis of former insensitivities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. ——'s paper on 'The Redemptive Power of Art' was very so-so, and did not touch my conception of the theme, viz., art made valuable for the reform of criminals.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
Vocabulary lists containing redemptive
"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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