redemptive

Obama occupies the brightest spot in Rhodes’s assessment of America’s vices and virtues, the redemptive figure who manages to recognize the nation’s flaws while still seeing its beauty and potential for good.
A three-pronged examination into what happens to America next|Beverly Gage|June 11, 2021|Washington Post
Reading scripture as God’s telling redemptive work in the world allows us to critique parts of our nation and history that don’t necessarily reflect that honoring of human life.
New Bible that includes Constitution creates controversy before it even hits market|Sarah Pulliam Bailey|May 28, 2021|Washington Post
After a year off, after a regular season of fits and crises, the NCAA basketball tournaments are back as the craziest, messiest and most redemptive version of themselves.
March Madness has long been the NCAA’s Magic Eraser. This time it’s a highlighter.|Jerry Brewer|March 25, 2021|Washington Post
He plays the part well, giving the flawed character a believable redemptive arc.
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ is a thrill ride through an ugly, unexamined world|Elise Favis|December 11, 2020|Washington Post

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
What Martin Luther King Jr. Said at the March on Washington About Police Brutality|Olivia B. Waxman|August 27, 2020|Time
I think the entire process of the Watergate investigation of 1973 and 1974 was actually a very redemptive one for the republic.
The Real Legacy of Richard Nixon|Scott Porch|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The power of his story is not only redemptive, but regenerative too.
Mandela: The Last Good Man|Mark Gevisser|December 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What Dr. King said to us was that unmerited suffering was always redemptive.
50 Years Later: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing|Lottie L. Joiner|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is not about the redemptive power of violence, but the redemptive power of the media.
The Wyatt Earp Myth: America’s Most Famous Vigilante Wasn’t|Andrew C. Isenberg|July 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That night we all shared in the sweetness of his redemptive victory.
What Progressives Want From Obama’s Second Term|Anthony Woods|November 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It took the moral degradation of the city to rouse the churches to activity as redemptive civic powers.
The Leaven in a Great City|Lillian William Betts
This is regarded as the last stage in a moral process, a redemptive purpose of God.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7|Various
The agreement in these two redemptive lives leads to the same conclusion.
Christianity As A Mystical Fact|Rudolf Steiner
He had failed to perceive the redemptive character of the feast, he had turned it into an occasion for profane personal display.
The Helpmate|May Sinclair
The speakers confess, that they know that the Servant's suffering was both vicarious and redemptive.
The Expositor's Bible|George Adam Smith

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