He dies, some say, with a redemptive, even hopeful vision emerging provisionally, perhaps delusively from the suffering of the tragedy. |
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If this simple tale of three people and a pooch were a Hollywood movie, it would be all about the redemptive power of love. |
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Alas, the movie doesn't allow the actor to fulfill the same redemptive role. |
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I decided that the movie, no matter how bleak and hopeless it may seem, is ultimately about redemptive hope, albeit a twisted one at that. |
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It is a tale of fear and guilt, emotional survival, and the redemptive power of love. |
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A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery. |
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The kingdom is essentially redemptive and spiritual rather than political and physical. |
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It feels emotional and meaningful to me because I do think love is incredibly redemptive. |
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Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth. |
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I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory. |
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Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. |
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It was through the personality and leadership of Moses in their escape from Egypt that the Israelites experienced the redemptive power of Yahweh. |
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Christ, as redemptive person and Word of God, is not to be encapsulated once-for-all in the historical Jesus. |
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You've done a lot of work with prisoners, dealing with the redemptive power of art. |
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There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem. |
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They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel. |
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So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash. |
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I found something reassuring and redemptive in this record, which went above and beyond anything that its creators could have envisaged for it. |
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The infralapsarians, however, objected that this order made the fall a kind of upward step to the fulfilling of God's redemptive purposes. |
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So I think there's a redemptive quality involved with taking care of people who have a need in the later years of their life. |
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Themes of redemptive love, parental affection and reconciliation are worked out in the music in a very different way from the play. |
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The man's imagination may not be redemptive, but it can at least be epical. |
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I wanted him to know the comfort and consolation of Christ's redemptive love. |
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That way lies the verbal Fall from the Edenic language, Babel, logophobia and the desire for redemptive language schemes. |
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We profess that people of any age are included in God's unconditional love and redemptive grace. |
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The story manages to rise above some of its cheap and cheesy production techniques to reach its redemptive twist of an ending. |
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Even the strategy of serial monogamous relationships is justified by a commitment to passionate love and redemptive romance. |
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Our only long term hope for peace and an end to fanaticism are changed hearts through faith in the redemptive love of God. |
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This is a serious comic novel, a withering satire on dumbed-down culture, a gently ironic look at devotions and ambitions, and a redemptive parable about coping with grief. |
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It expresses itself in a continuing metanoia and in the acceptance of redemptive suffering. |
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To the agnostic mind, it all seems, erm, damnably unfair, especially as Enrico is equipped with a redemptive soft spot for his crippled dad. |
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Thus each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ. |
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A clear-eyed evocation of a child's perspective, this novel is both macabre and redemptive. |
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When written down, it may carry the whiff of Jessie J, but on record, delivered with conviction, sounds utterly redemptive. |
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One of its chief responsibilities was for bringing the redemptive message of the Gospel to the world outside the Roman Empire. |
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The evidence on that issue is that Ms Gooding commenced her pattern of redemptive conduct prior to her conviction and sentencing. |
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But there seems to be some space at the moment, in South Africa and elsewhere in southern Africa, to appropriate redemptive masculinities. |
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It was like a sea of raised hands with hearts open to the redemptive power of the Gospel! |
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The redemptive event of the past shaped the destiny and the eschatological orientation of the biblical society. |
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Hatebreed's fans gave back to the band, just like the band gave itself to the fans, showing the redemptive, cyclical power of their music. |
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We believe that the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ provides healing for our spirit, soul, and body. |
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Indeed, the communication of truth can have a redemptive power, which comes from the person of Christ. |
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Even though it was the natural result of their disobedience, it was also redemptive. |
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Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy. |
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We even have a tendency to portray politicians whom we hope will be redemptive in meteorological terms. |
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These monasteries would be places where the primary purpose would be to search for the face of God, sharing in the redemptive work of Christ in prayer and penance. |
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The pulsating core of his speech was the redemptive power of love. |
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What Dr. King said to us was that unmerited suffering was always redemptive. |
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It is not about the redemptive power of violence, but the redemptive power of the media. |
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Love is revealed to us in the incarnation, the redemptive journey which Jesus Christ made on our earth, culminating in the supreme sacrifice of the cross. |
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The baptism and the blood on the Cross was His redemptive love for us. |
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Little did we realize at the beginning that God would have something surprising, destabilizing and redemptive for our church to help us realize this dream. |
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Because of the identity of the One who suffered and the way in which he accepted it, this experience was also redemptive, in the tradition of the Suffering Servant of Deutero-Isaiah. |
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Superiors, in union with the persons entrusted to them, are called to build a fraternal community in Christ in which God is sought and loved above things, in order to fulfil God's redemptive plan. |
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Yet his wounds, transformed by his redemptive sufferings, are the very means by which the power of evil is broken and we are reborn to life and hope. |
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Only the greater redemptive power of the soul can turn the key. |
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Hundreds of thousands of hands had been uplifted during the week, a physical indication of a spiritual decision to receive the redemptive power of Christ into their hearts. |
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We were called like the shepherds to be witnesses to Christ among us, witnesses of his love and truth, witnesses of his suffering and great redemptive act for all humankind, and witnesses of his forgiveness and mercy. |
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The adaptation also works in a redemptive romanticism, which sets it in the sub-tradition of British films that depict working-class grime but contrive happy endings. |
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It presented an idyllic and often redemptive childhood. |
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Edwards' projected History of Redemption would have drawn these themes together, for it is in his redemptive work in history that God's sovereignty, holiness, and beauty are most clearly exhibited. |
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He is also a moralist, story-teller and preacher with a fervent belief in the transformative, indeed redemptive, power of the inventions he writes about. |
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That night we all shared in the sweetness of his redemptive victory. |
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Some subjects addressed in this volume include Chinese redemptive societies and Salvationist religion, andpeasant rebellions against communism. |
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It tries, to some extent, to resist the temptation to spiritualize Kate by finding meaning or comfort in her terrible situation even as it succumbs, in the end, to creepy and unconvincing redemptive impulses. |
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The power of his story is not only redemptive, but regenerative too. |
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The Eucharist is the memorial of this sacrifice, that is, of this act of redemptive love that reestablishes the communion of humanity with God by overcoming the obstacle posed by the world's sin. |
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In Turner's Christology here, Jesus functions not as a crucified atoner, but instead as a hard-working example of labor's redemptive qualities. |
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And so it is with new single Doing OK, which features up and coming singer Jacob Banks providing the chorus, and focuses more on the redemptive nature of apologising for being a bit of a toerag in the past. |
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Concordist schemes are eschewed in favor of broad pictures that emphasize the immanence of God and a different view of redemptive history. |
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And since the will to undertake the redemptive Kenosis is itself indivisibly trinitarian. |
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If criticism has failed to tackle the problem of evil as exemplified by Stavrogin, it has also turned its back on the salvational and redemptive aspects of religious faith. |
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But true to form the 19-year-old failed to do himself any redemptive favours following his slew of bratty behaviour during his embattled Believe gigs. |
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Paine expressed a redemptive futurism or political messianism. |
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Adam failed, and God changed his covenant with him, in accordance with his eternal preknowledge and predetermined redemptive plan of incarnation and cross. |
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