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But there can also be a redemptive quality to what he does.

He never had or took the opportunity to go through a redemptive process.

He was in no position to do anything redemptive or to clean up his life.

A teacher's relationship with others is one of redemptive love and concern.

But he does not frame his redemptive season in those terms.

He believes in the redemptive power of the human spirit.

At one level or another, his books nearly always touched on the redemptive power of art.

He often speaks of God's death as a redemptive event.

But more generally it is about the redemptive powers of music itself.

Yet Helen believes in the redemptive power of her work.

Fascinated by the word, he holds out hope for its redemptive power.

It is a bitter story, in which music plays no redemptive role.

"To see them together was redemptive and beautiful," their son recalled.

He has also found an almost redemptive nobility in the characters.

"When we first did the play, I wasn't sure whether or in what way it was redemptive," she said.

But that's more about the redemptive power of getting one's comeuppance.

At his best, he can make any ritual seem both unnatural and redemptive.

Salvation lies only in working with the system of redemptive choices.

No one watching could be quite certain of anything until the redemptive tallies.

The book is not devoid of an occasional redemptive note.

He saw a deep, redemptive connection between spirituality and depression.

Yet his story also testifies to the redemptive powers of language.

Memorial art, on the other hand, is therapeutic, redemptive and educational.

For all of them she holds some redemptive power.

"But in terms of the argument, it is actually darker and less redemptive than her earlier plays."

In the 1950's and 60's, Professor Young said, people "reflexively found a redemptory truth, a silver lining at the end of a very long storm."

The Dead Father - the eponymous character, a godlike, incarnated image of Fatherhood, being hauled towards a redemptory destination.

When Mr. Stevenson takes to the stage, he is continuing a redemptory history of rock, blues, soul and folk artists who search for an outlet for frustrated lives and find relief in their music.

But in this book, as in his other widely praised novels (most notably "Mr. Mani" and "A Late Divorce"), he has enlarged their vision and scope, working from the vantage point of a brilliant novelist who places himself outside - even in opposition to - a relentlessly redemptory tradition.