Example Sentences

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My guess is he sometimes felt the same about the salvational spirit of the early civil rights movement.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019

But Didion isn’t a reassuring writer, and The White Album isn’t about the uplifting or salvational nature of stories—it’s about the collapse of narrative, its uselessness in the face of chaos.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2016

The bar had its own perils — no one ever paid the slightest attention to me there — but it afforded me the space to just be, with my guard down, and that was salvational.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016

Less salvational, but certainly allied, was the rise of the so-called “professional organizers,” people whom you could hire to come into your house and get things in order.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 8, 2014