redeeming feature
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They offered not one redeeming feature as they slumped again, the visiting fans suffering as they made their way home from a freezing west London night.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
If “Intrusion” has one redeeming feature, it’s Marshall-Green, whose performance as the husband with a dark secret has a crackling, tightly controlled intensity far more nuanced and persuasive than anything else in the film.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021
The microphone is good One redeeming feature that the Earphones HD have is a high-quality microphone, which I was told during testing made me sound very clear and easily understandable.
From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2018
USA Today's Claudia Puig says, "The only redeeming feature about 'The Gunman' is its exotic locations," which include the Congo, London, Barcelona and Gibraltar.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2015
But, in the case of Mary E. Surratt, not a single redeeming feature relieves “The deep damnation of her taking off.”
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller
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