So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash. |
There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem. |
He dies, some say, with a redemptive, even hopeful vision emerging provisionally, perhaps delusively from the suffering of the tragedy. |
Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth. |
It feels emotional and meaningful to me because I do think love is incredibly redemptive. |
The infralapsarians, however, objected that this order made the fall a kind of upward step to the fulfilling of God's redemptive purposes. |