| There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem. |
| The man's imagination may not be redemptive, but it can at least be epical. |
| They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel. |
| Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth. |
| That way lies the verbal Fall from the Edenic language, Babel, logophobia and the desire for redemptive language schemes. |
| The infralapsarians, however, objected that this order made the fall a kind of upward step to the fulfilling of God's redemptive purposes. |
