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When he realizes she’s serious about leaving and taking the children with her, he insists he’s willing to change—a promise that the audience, and Kay, knows is unredeemable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Zoe says before her transition, Emilia is an "unredeemable character" but audiences have a "yearning for her redemption".

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024

About a dozen songs earlier, Swift bid a permanent farewell to an unredeemable lover with a reveling “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” — one of her first great kiss-off jams.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Convinced that he was unredeemable and condemned to the fires below, Spira took to his bed and refused food until he died.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

He had taken the unredeemable step: he was married.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver