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  • The movie, Shawshank Redemption, depicts redemption in many ways. The injustice that permits the corrupt prison warden to thrive is made up when he is arrested. Andy's escape from prison with the warden's ill-gotten gains helps to make up for his false imprisonment. And Andy makes up for having failed his wife by helping others generally and in particular by saving Red.
    redemption = to make up for something bad
  • It's been a terrible season, but the team has a shot at redemption if they can beat their cross-town rival.
    redemption = making up for bad things
  • Chapter 37 — Gambling for Redemption   (source)
    redemption = salvation (to be saved)
  • The only redeeming facet of Support Group was this kid named Isaac, a long-faced, skinny guy with straight blond hair swept over one eye.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for bad qualities
  • And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.   (source)
    redemption = making up for something bad
  • "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that."   (source)
    redeeming = making up for the bad
  • It disappoints her, because she desperately wants to find something redeeming about him.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for bad qualities
  • In Sugamo Prison, as he was told of Watanabe's fate, all Louie saw was a lost person, a life now beyond redemption.   (source)
    redemption = saving
  • When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska, my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb, it didn't occur to me that I might be bound by the same cause-and-effect relationships that governed the actions of others.   (source)
    redemption = making up for something bad
  • But in the fourth quarter, I'd get my shot at redemption.   (source)
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  • When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regarded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapses; when we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness—until redeemed—the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state.   (source)
    redeemed = saved
  • They're cute, and they have redeeming social value.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for something bad
  • If the American's eventual victory didn't begin to redeem Matt's own sulky youth, at least it edged the game out of the private migraine of abnormal introversion and into the mingled thing out there, the everyday melee of competing states and material forces.   (source)
    redeem = make up for
  • O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life. Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm, streams back through our hands from thee, and we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee, and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope bite into thee with our lips!   (source)
    redeemed = saved
  • The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.   (source)
    redeem = make up for prior actions
  • We have torn ourselves from the truth which is our brother men, and there is no road back for us, and no redemption.   (source)
    redemption = making up for it (something bad)
  • He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more.   (source)
    redeem = save
  • For it's so clear that in order to begin to live in the present we must first redeem the past, and that can only be done by suffering, by strenuous, uninterrupted labour.   (source)
    redeem = make up for (something bad)
  • —guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no evil of the past be redeemed by better service.   (source)
    redeemed = made up for
  • Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.   (source)
    redeem = save
  • All I saw was the blue kite. All I smelled was victory. Salvation. Redemption.   (source)
    redemption = making up for something bad
  • Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.   (source)
  • In his dying days, Mac had redeemed himself.   (source)
    redeemed = made up for anything bad
  •   "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?"
      "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for the bad
  • I wondered why he'd written Van Houten in those last days instead of me, telling Van Houten that he'd be redeemed if only he gave me my sequel.   (source)
    redeemed = made up for
  • ...making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and for all those who fought the Heartland War and lost—which was everybody.   (source)
    redemption = salvation
  • Then the old warrior would walk to the young one, embrace him, acknowledge his worthiness. Vindication. Salvation. Redemption.   (source)
    redemption = making up for something bad
  • Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself.   (source)
  • I was afraid the appeal of my life in America would draw me back, that I would wade back into that great, big river and let myself forget, let the things I had learned these last few days sink to the bottom. I was afraid that I'd let the waters carry me away from what I had to do. From Hassan. From the past that had come calling. And from this one last chance at redemption.   (source)
  • It was not lost on Melanie that Rhett's conduct had gone far toward redeeming him in Mammy's eyes.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for the bad qualities in
  • But the flat, squashed look of the place was partly redeemed by the two fine old oaks which shaded it and a dustyleaved magnolia, splotched with white blossoms, standing beside the front steps.   (source)
    redeemed = made up for
  • There was no servant so stupid that she did not find some redeeming trait of loyalty and kind-heartedness, no girl so ugly and disagreeable that she could not discover grace of form or nobility of character in her, and no man so worthless or so boring that she did not view him in the light of his possibilities rather than his actualities.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for bad qualities
  • She determined to redeem her error so far as it might yet be possible.   (source)
    redeem = make up for (something bad)
  • What can a ruined soul like mine effect towards the redemption of other souls?   (source)
    redemption = saving
  • When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent?   (source)
    redeemed = made up for
  • His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel.   (source)
    redeeming = making up for bad qualities
  • Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.   (source)
    redeem = save
  • I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.   (source)
    redeemed = saved
  • It was the exhilarating effect—upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart—of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianised, lawless region.   (source)
    unredeemed = unsaved
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredeemed means not and reverses the meaning of redeemed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Better it were a brother died at once
    Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
    Should die for ever.   (source)
    redeeming = saving (by exchanging something else of value)
  • you may redeem your banish'd honours, and restore yourselves Into the good thoughts of the world again;   (source)
    redeem = to make up for something bad
  •   How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
      I wake before the time that Romeo
      Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point!   (source)
    redeem = save
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  • Points earned with the credit card can be redeemed for free airline tickets and other products.
  • When we wanted money, we walked along the roadside picking up beer cans and bottles that we redeemed for two cents each.   (source)
  • In it I've included information about how to redeem the free plane tickets and info about our hotel and schedule for the days we are in D.C.   (source)
    redeem = exchange
  • The people at the cafeteria were civilians, and they didn't want any part of our meal tickets, even though a sergeant tried to explain to the head of the cafeteria that the U.S. Army would redeem them.   (source)
    redeem = exchange (for money)
  • When she's not reading, Carol says, she's gathering up bottles and cans across Skid Row and taking them to a redemption center.   (source)
    redemption = exchange (for cash)
  • He used to sit in a glass booth at the supermarket batching personal checks and redeemed coupons ... subject to the casual abuse of passing strangers in the world.   (source)
    redeemed = exchanged
  • Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.   (source)
    redeemed = exchanged (for money)
  • He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.   (source)
    redeem = regain possession
  • I recognized the Prelude, from Handel's Messiah—"I know that my Redeemer liveth."†   (source)
  • Is it too much to ask that I meet my Redeemer with a healthy nose?†   (source)
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  • In winter and fall she carried it to AME's and Baptists, Holinesses and Sanctifieds, the Church of the Redeemer and the Redeemed.†   (source)
  • But if Grace Marks repent at last, And for her sins atone, Then when she comes to die, she'll stand At her Redeemer's throne.†   (source)
  • The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
    No more to use the sky for ever but live with
    famine and pain a few days.
    He is strong and pain is worse to the strong
    incapacity is worse.
    No one but death the redeemer will humble that head,
    The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.
    Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks
    Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours."†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 14 -- Knowledge of the Redeemer.†   (source)
  • First, I bequeath my soul into ye hands of God who made me, depending my salvation upon the account of Jesus Christ my redeemer.†   (source)
  • The one they call the Redeemer?†   (source)
  • "So you believe in Christ the Redeemer?" the doctor said in a thick-tongued but oddly abstract voice, like that of a lecturer examining the delicately shaded facet of a proposition in logic.†   (source)
  • "For," he was saying, as if he spoke of something that had happened yesterday in town, "when God sent his Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord"-he slightly bowed his head"as a Redeemer to mankind, He …"†   (source)
  • You ought to be thanking your Redeemer he ain't dead.†   (source)
  • One afternoon when Brian and I had come home to an empty fridge, we went out to the alley behind the house looking for bottles to redeem.   (source)
    redeem = exchange (for money)
  • Babysitting and tutoring and doing other kids' homework and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap metal didn't count.   (source)
    redeeming = exchanging (for money)
  • After we redeemed the bottles or sold the scrap metal, we walked into town, to the drugstore next door to the Owl Club.   (source)
    redeemed = exchanged (for money)
  • I hoped to bring knowledge of the Redeemer to those who do not have it.†   (source)
  • So glad, amen, this morning, bless my Redeemer.†   (source)
  • Cholly was beyond redemption, of course, and redemption was hardly the point—Mrs. Breedlove was not interested in Christ the Redeemer, but rather Christ the Judge.†   (source)
  • It does not matter what prelude begins the service; I will always hear Handel's Messiah—and my mother's not-quite-trained soprano singing, "I know that my Redeemer liveth."†   (source)
  • At her Redeemer's throne she'll stand, And she'll be cured of woe, And He her bloodied hands will wash, And she'll be white as snow.†   (source)
  • Before it was the Church of the Holy Redeemer, it was a dry-goods shop that had no use for side windows, just front ones for display.†   (source)
  • Jesus Christ Himself didn't, so Stamp ate a piece of Ella's head cheese to show there were no bad feelings and set out to find Paul D. He found him on the steps of Holy Redeemer, holding his wrists between his knees and looking red-eyed.†   (source)
  • They were foragers and gatherers, can redeemers, the people who yawed through subway cars with paper cups.†   (source)
  • It is in these Handel records I got for Christmas, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth,' that make me cry because of all my guilt, and also because I know that my Reedemer don't live and my body will be destroyed by worms and my eyes will never, never again see God …."†   (source)
  • I am only sure of this: that man is never safe and damnation is ever at hand, O God and my Redeemer!†   (source)
  • Part 2 Chapter 3 Subsection 6 — The Hero as World Redeemer.†   (source)
  • The good news, which the World Redeemer brings and which so many have been glad to hear, zealous to preach, but reluctant, apparently, to demonstrate, is that God is love, that He can be, and is to be, loved, and that all without exception are his children.†   (source)
  • Heroes of this second, highest illumination are the world redeemers, the so-called incarnations, in the highest sense.†   (source)
  • And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal—carries the cross of the redeemer—not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.†   (source)
  • 23 The legends of the redeemer describe the period of desolation as caused by a moral fault on the part of man (Adam in the garden, Jemshid on the throne).†   (source)
  • But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millennia.†   (source)
  • And in modern progressive Christianity the Christ—Incarnation of the Logos and Redeemer of the World—is primarily a historical personage, a harmless country wise man of the semi-Oriental past who preached a benign doctrine of "do as you would be done by," yet was executed as a criminal.†   (source)
  • Even the so-called Christian nations—which are supposed to be following a "World" Redeemer—are better known to history for their colonial barbarity and internecine strife than for any practical display of that unconditioned love, synonymous with the effective conquest of ego, ego's world, and ego's tribal god, which was taught by their professed supreme Lord: I say unto you, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.†   (source)
  • It was to both their interests, but they ascribed it to a common love for their Redeemer.†   (source)
  • —Yet even then, in that hour of supreme agony, Our Merciful Redeemer had pity for mankind.†   (source)
  • I know that my Redeemer liveth and that He is yours.†   (source)
  • I know my Redeemer liveth and that He will keep him against that day.†   (source)
  • I could go back and be his comforter — his pride; his redeemer from misery, perhaps from ruin.†   (source)
  • Oh, place all your trust in the mediation of our Holy Redeemer!†   (source)
  • Do you still say your prayers, Rodya, and believe in the mercy of our Creator and our Redeemer?†   (source)
  • The Redeemer died for all, for the poor Indian as well as for the white man.†   (source)
  • Inquired the priest, with tender interest; "sings he the Redeemer's praise?"†   (source)
  • He was there to see once more the Redeemer of men.†   (source)
  • The King! the Son of God! the Redeemer of the world!†   (source)
  • We are to see the Redeemer—to speak to him—to worship him!†   (source)
  • …. in the Redeemer.†   (source)
  • It is the plaint of Lazarus when, at the sound of the Redeemer's voice, he begins to open his eyes and see the light of day.†   (source)
  • —O, my dear little brethren in Christ Jesus, will we then offend that good Redeemer and provoke His anger?†   (source)
  • It seemed to him then that the headmaster, with his black, straggling hair and his pale face, was like those prophets of Israel who feared not to take kings to task; and when he thought of the Redeemer he saw Him only with the same dark eyes and those wan cheeks.†   (source)
  • He took pity on our poor degraded parents and promised that in the fullness of time He would send down from heaven One who would redeem them, make them once more children of God and heirs to the kingdom of heaven: and that One, that Redeemer of fallen man, was to be God's only begotten Son, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the Eternal Word.†   (source)
  • One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man.†   (source)
  • "But the strangest part of the story is," resumed the abbe, "that Dantes, even in his dying moments, swore by his crucified Redeemer, that he was utterly ignorant of the cause of his detention."†   (source)
  • The star had shown him where to find the God of the poor; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to his Redeemer's rest.†   (source)
  • With two others, from far quarters of the earth, thou shalt see the Redeemer, and be a witness that he hath come.†   (source)
  • The true cross of the Redeemer was the sin and sorrow of this world—that was what lay heavy on his heart—and that is the cross we shall share with him, that is the cup we must drink of with him, if we would have any part in that Divine Love which is one with his sorrow.†   (source)
  • When each new speaker strikes a new light, emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought, then yields us to another redeemer, we seem to recover our rights, to become men.†   (source)
  • Yet who can speak the simple joy with which some of those poor outcasts, to whom life was a joyless journey to a dark unknown, heard of a compassionate Redeemer and a heavenly home?†   (source)
  • For then, the very hardship, and the sorrow, and the blindness, and the sin I have beheld and been ready to weep over—yea, all the anguish of the children of men, which sometimes wraps me round like sudden darkness—I can bear with a willing pain, as if I was sharing the Redeemer's cross.†   (source)
  • And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos[157] and the Dark.†   (source)
  • I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!†   (source)
  • His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles — their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself.†   (source)
  • I have seen that again and again when I have been sitting in stillness and darkness, and a great terror has come upon me lest I should become hard, and a lover of self, and no more bear willingly the Redeemer's cross."†   (source)
  • This is the moment, John, when the reflection that you did not reject the mediation of the Redeemer, will bring balm to your soul.†   (source)
  • "I have surely endeavored to remember the holy man dates of our Redeemer, when he bids us 'love them who despitefully use you,' in my intercourse with this incomprehensible boy," said Marmaduke.†   (source)
  • Listen to the language of the Redeemer: 'But I say unto you, love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.'†   (source)
  • But, now that we have met, and heard from each other, we may know him to be the Redeemer, not of the Jews alone, but of all the nations of the earth.†   (source)
  • I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for my self, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.†   (source)
  • May not the Redeemer be a king also?†   (source)
  • An intense instant interest shone upon the good man's face, as if a last wish had been gratified, and he answered, "He—the Redeemer—the Son of God, whom I have seen again.†   (source)
  • "John," said the divine, when the figure of Judge Temple disappeared, the last of the group, "to-morrow is the festival of the nativity of our blessed Redeemer, when the church has appointed prayers and thanksgivings to be offered up by her children, and when all are invited to partake of the mystical elements.†   (source)
  • In Egypt, upon my return, there were a few friends to believe the wonderful things I told them of what I had seen and heard—a few who rejoiced with me that a Redeemer was born—a few who never tired of the story.†   (source)
  • He bade us come hither, promising that we should find the Redeemer of the World; that we should see and worship him, and bear witness that he was come; and, as a sign, we were each given to see a star.†   (source)
  • The question was put solemnly, and long after midnight the company sat and debated it; Simonides being yet unwilling to give up his understanding of the sayings of the prophets, and Ben-Hur contending that the elder disputants were both right—that the Nazarene was the Redeemer, as claimed by Balthasar, and also the destined king the merchant would have.†   (source)
  • If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable.   (source)
    redeemable = able to be recovered
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • Shall our coffers, then, be emptied to redeem a traitor home?   (source)
    redeem = exchange in return for (bringing)
  • "He's not an entirely irredeemable character," the magus said, defending his king.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irredeemable means not and reverses the meaning of redeemable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
  • She was conscious of that gulf, but not as unredeemable alteration in herself.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredeemable means not and reverses the meaning of redeemable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Unsure how to act in the company of a divine presence, this living reincarnation of an ancient and illustrious lama, I was terrified of unwittingly giving offense or committing some irredeemable faux pas.†   (source)
  • But certainly not irredeemable.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino already realized how completely he would repudiate the memory of that irredeemable woman, and he thought he knew why: only a person without principles could be so complaisant toward grief.†   (source)
  • There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.†   (source)
  • But why punish an innocent, unless in the end everyone was guilty of unredeemable sin, programmed by somesibling, or so the Mormon Church claimed, of God above?†   (source)
  • Here is the great secret, the great mystery to an immigrant's success, the dwindle of irredeemable hours beneath the cheap tube lights.†   (source)
  • On death row I encountered the enemy, those considered so irredeemable by our society that even our Supreme Court has made it legal to kill them.†   (source)
  • He called Johnny Wayne an "irredeemable monster:' I'd asked the shrink not to write any of that down.†   (source)
  • He stood, alone in the white glare, his feet planted firmly apart, on an island of cement in a ring of blinding lights, with nothing beyond the ring but an irredeemable night-and she wondered which one of them was taking the greater chance and facing the more desolate emptiness, "In case anything happens to me," she said, "will you tell Eddie Willers in my office to give Jeff Alien a job, as I promised?"†   (source)
  • …the sight of all those blind alleys he had struggled never to be forced to see: now, at the end of every alley, he was seeing his hatred of existence-he was seeing the face of Cherryl Taggart with her joyous eagerness to live and that it was this particular eagerness he had always wanted to defeat-he was seeing his face as the face of a killer whom all men should rightfully loathe, who destroyed values for being values, who killed in order not to discover his own irredeemable evil.†   (source)
  • An undeniable and unredeemable forfeit of all he hath about him.†   (source)
  • An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.†   (source)
  • Mr Pyke and Mr Pluck sat drinking hard in the next room, now and then varying the monotonous murmurs of their conversation with a half-smothered laugh, while the young lord—the only member of the party who was not thoroughly irredeemable, and who really had a kind heart—sat beside his Mentor, with a cigar in his mouth, and read to him, by the light of a lamp, such scraps of intelligence from a paper of the day, as were most likely to yield him interest or amusement.†   (source)
  • Why shall I pause to relate how, time after time, until near the period of the gray dawn, this hideous drama of revivification was repeated; how each terrific relapse was only into a sterner and apparently more irredeemable death; how each agony wore the aspect of a struggle with some invisible foe; and how each struggle was succeeded by I know not what of wild change in the personal appearance of the corpse?†   (source)
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  • I had at least this one achievement I could show, to redeem myself in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it could be called the hope of redemption.†   (source)
  • "So I'm working in the hope of redeeming myself by good service?†   (source)
  • To redeem myself.†   (source)
  • It was The Shawshank Redemption, and I was about to become Andy Dufresne.†   (source)
  • It is ugly beyond redemption.†   (source)
  • Stettner tried to redeem himself.†   (source)
  • And who knew what might come of it—righteous disruption or transformational redemption?†   (source)
  • Mundungus redeemed himself slightly in Mrs Weasley's eyes by rescuing Ron from an ancient set of purple robes that had tried to strangle him when he removed them from their wardrobe.†   (source)
  • Maybe Garvey and I want redemption for our own mistakes in life.†   (source)
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  • How wonderful it would be if he could redeem himself in Mr. Curtain's eyes!†   (source)
  • It would be a means of redeeming himself, if he won.†   (source)
  • I am still searching for the redemption.†   (source)
  • There are no memories of the parent that are not rendered painful by the death, no event surrounding the death that is redeemed by a single happy thought.†   (source)
  • I read a monologue from Julius Caesar and performed a short hip-hop play about the redemption of a former child soldier that I had written with Esther's encouragement.†   (source)
  • Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep of thine own fold, a lamb of thine own flock, a sinner of thine own redeeming.†   (source)
  • Initially, she thought the prose "too full, too cloying" but with "redeeming shades of Dusty Answer" (which I wouldn't have thought of at all).†   (source)
  • You won't have to steal it because folks will give to a man of God, and what they love to hear about is a bad man who has redeemed himself.†   (source)
  • The good citizens of Chicago no doubt view you as ruffians, thieves, and beggars, hopeless sinners who have not a chance in the world of being redeemed.†   (source)
  • What redeemed the life of a rice farmer, however, was the nature of that work.†   (source)
  • Jon knew that other men accused of treason had been allowed to redeem their honor on the Wall in days past.†   (source)
  • Our Lord died so that ye might be redeemed.†   (source)
  • Besides, I'm not offering food, and my ability to provide scraps has always been my main redeeming quality to him.†   (source)
  • Nancy stared at the mess in front of her as if trying to find something redeemable in it.†   (source)
  • I sat in silence wondering if I could ever redeem myself in the eyes of the Lord.†   (source)
  • The only redeeming aspect of this place is all the mushrooms and fungi that grow inside Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • Redeem me.†   (source)
  • I'd mention it to him when I had a chance; maybe it would help redeem me in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Dementia was her mother's redemption, and God would forgive them both for having hurt each other all these years.†   (source)
  • The Ousters believed that the Time Tombs were artifacts from their future, the Shrike a weapon of redemption awaiting the proper hand to seize it.†   (source)
  • For him the awards were a form of redemption.†   (source)
  • It's about redemption, not recovery.†   (source)
  • In winter and fall she carried it to AME's and Baptists, Holinesses and Sanctifieds, the Church of the Redeemer and the Redeemed.†   (source)
  • There are concepts of forgiveness and redemption.†   (source)
  • She had fought grimly for her life, that girl, and Mrs. Ramage found now, following Geoffrey through the gates and into a thin mist that turned the leaning grave markers into islands, that what should have redeemed with nobility only made it seem all the more horrid.†   (source)
  • I felt too far gone to be redeemed, to be any good to anyone or anything.†   (source)
  • The nation is delivered from anxiety, the deceased's life is redeemed, life itself is strengthened, reaffirmed.†   (source)
  • His honor redeemed by his grandmother's cans, Estha Alone organized the rusty cans of nothing in front of the urinal.†   (source)
  • In his mind Scrooge was a heathen, who came to his redemption only because he saw ghosts, not angels-and who was to say whether they'd been sent by God, anyway?†   (source)
  • Redeem him?†   (source)
  • I handed him the piece of paper, wondering what the owner would think when the University's Master Archivist showed up to redeem the book a filthy street urchin had sold him.†   (source)
  • The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.†   (source)
  • She didn't have the time or the energy to deal with his need for redemption right now.†   (source)
  • I know how to redeem myself.†   (source)
  • Neither does another explanation sound right, that he was trying to redeem himself for his earlier failure.†   (source)
  • But maybe there was still something I could do to redeem myself.†   (source)
  • All the same, you felt dreadful, just knowing you'd fallen in her estimation, and you wanted to do something straight away to redeem yourself.†   (source)
  • Marley was a disaster, unmitigated and without redemption.†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these prophecies of redemption.†   (source)
  • Then, as if to redeem herself, she adds, "I didn't get involved until later."†   (source)
  • The oppression of the poor, the abuse of the vulnerable, and the redemption that comes with fighting for what is right—what ideas could be more relevant in our dear Haiti?†   (source)
  • Any sense of isolation she may have had withered and died in the presence of some two hundred sinners earnestly requesting to be plunged beneath a red, redeeming flood.†   (source)
  • Then she saw his childlike, boyish smile, which she took for a redeeming feature.†   (source)
  • I mean, he was a total scumbag, beyond any hope of redemption.†   (source)
  • Did he think one flashy grin would redeem him?†   (source)
  • Redemption, even.†   (source)
  • You offered this man a weapon, a chance to redeem himself in battle and achieve Valhalla!†   (source)
  • Edmund redeems himself.†   (source)
  • He began to see them as his saviors, as a regenerative force that could redeem his fortunes.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't mind the noise, if there were other redeeming qualities," I told him.†   (source)
  • Like any book about mistakes and redemption (Oscar Wilde's De Profundis is my favorite), the mistakes are far more interesting to read about (and write about)—so I'll start with where I think I went around the bend.†   (source)
  • At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only.†   (source)
  • During the ride out to Gus' sprawling ranch, with Jason out of earshot, we discussed memories of Red and our desire to help Red redeem Jason Stevens.†   (source)
  • Some of her beliefs weren't stated all that differently from the scuttlebutt I had heard from the holy rollers in the Camp, but their protestations of faith were imbued with the need for redemption—Jesus loves me even if I'm a bad person, even if no one else does.†   (source)
  • On that day I didn't feel very redeemed.†   (source)
  • I kept expecting the redeeming scene to rise out of my typewriter some day.†   (source)
  • Any hopes Pollard had of redeeming himself there were quickly silenced.†   (source)
  • One discussion Ryan had had with Adam brought him a measure of peace with the decision: they had talked about "how beautiful grace is and how God's grace can redeem so much darkness and what was so ugly can be made beautiful," says Ryan.†   (source)
  • I've redeemed the time.†   (source)
  • Blood and redemption.†   (source)
  • This is the moment that redeems her years of waiting.†   (source)
  • I've always hated it in movies and plays, the woman who is ripped open by violence and then asked to parcel out redemption for the rest of her life.†   (source)
  • A redemption of himself?†   (source)
  • Maybe I was finally burned beyond a crisp, beyond recognition or redemption.†   (source)
  • And for Cedric this glorious list means a sort of financial redemption, representing-in the case of Brown, at least-an annual scholarship just shy of $20,000, about what his mother makes a year.†   (source)
  • The obsession of the epic womanizer strikes people as lacking in redemption (redemption by disappointment).†   (source)
  • As if it gave Thomas Stone a human dimension, a redeeming quality.†   (source)
  • It was a bargain: you made an admission, you got redemption in return.†   (source)
  • It will have redeemed his soul.†   (source)
  • Caldarola had a chance to redeem himself from his poor running play in the first inning and possibly win the game.†   (source)
  • I believe we help to redeem each other through the power of acceptance.†   (source)
  • Blessed by God, our redemption draws near.†   (source)
  • Without asking his leave, I picked up the Bible and turned to a passage I knew well: "Bless the Lord, O my soul; And forget not all his benefits, Who forgives all your iniquity, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the Pit ….†   (source)
  • Trying to redeem myself, I changed the subject.†   (source)
  • In the resolution of this mystery was his mission, his purpose, and perhaps an unknowable redemption.†   (source)
  • The playful laughter of her daughter, heard more often now, brought a sort of redemption with it.†   (source)
  • Redemption.†   (source)
  • His humiliation will be so complete that he will undertake extraordinary measures to seek redemption.†   (source)
  • Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.†   (source)
  • You are beyond redemption and beneath contempt.†   (source)
  • His voice had gone beyond emotion, into a place beyond redemption.†   (source)
  • "I think she made a mistake and now she means to redeem herself by leading me to it," I say.†   (source)
  • The Africans performed readings, and Singbe, for the last time in America, told his tale of capture, slavery, and redemption.†   (source)
  • It's the one you spend all your energy on, it bears the fullness of your thoughts until done, the kind of job that if you mess up you've got only one more chance to redeem.†   (source)
  • You have to go to a bank to redeem them; payments would be stopped.†   (source)
  • Things can be redeemed.†   (source)
  • A sandy-haired boy, maybe fifteen or sixteen, wearing a dark-rinse jean jacket with acid-washed jeans (ouch—although beneath the jacket he's got on a Killers T-shirt, which redeems him a bit), has come into the kitchen, then freezes when he sees me.†   (source)
  • Jackson dies before Gamett, accused of cowardice, can clear his name and redeem his honor, the honor which no man who knows him has ever doubted.†   (source)
  • He also taught me that people are worth loving because God made us to be loved and to share a message of love and redemption.†   (source)
  • 22 Shock to farmers was eased by continuing to buy grain at catapult—but cheques now carried printed warning that Luna Free State did not stand behind them, did not warrant that Lunar Authority would ever redeem them even in Scrip, etc., etc. Some farmers left grain anyhow, some did not, all screamed.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a shot at redemption?†   (source)
  • To get to it, to redeem it, Franny had to shuffle across the floor through a quantity of newspapers and sidestep an empty paint bucket.†   (source)
  • Hastily attempting to redeem myself I tore off the mask and stepped briskly forward — whereupon the Eskimos, with the precision of a musical comedy chorus line, stepped briskly backwards, staring at me the while with wild surmise.†   (source)
  • The stories were good, but Thrower kept going on about original sin and redemption.†   (source)
  • Travelers checks are usually redeemed in New York, and between me and you, I don't think there'll be much left of New York.†   (source)
  • In Mexico the privilegiado is always, to a finite percentage, redeemed—one of the people.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he is able to redeem himself.†   (source)
  • I was ten years older before I redeemed that in my first published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman."†   (source)
  • My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.†   (source)
  • "True," I said, hoping to redeem myself from whatever faux pas had drawn that strange look.†   (source)
  • She would spend her middle years turning me into the man who would redeem her failed youth.†   (source)
  • Because at the heart of this extraordinary cult is an immense idea about the redemption of the woman of Africa.†   (source)
  • He knew all right why his son was dead, and who he had meant to protect and redeem, and why.†   (source)
  • If I merely were one of your disciples, oh venerable one, I'd fear that it might happen to me that only seemingly, only deceptively my self would be calm and be redeemed, but that in truth it would live on and grow, for then I had replaced my self with the teachings, my duty to follow you, my love for you, and the community of the monks!†   (source)
  • "He came to redeem us," he said and blandly reached for her hand and shook it and said he must go.†   (source)
  • She didn't know why it was so important to redeem herself in Mrs. Chism's eyes after their trouble, but it was.†   (source)
  • We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.†   (source)
  • John could not have found in his heart, had he dared to search it, any wish for her redemption.†   (source)
  • From Charlie's point of view, the adaptability redeemed them.†   (source)
  • They were totally ruthless and had no redeeming features.†   (source)
  • My pagan mother alone among us understood redemption.†   (source)
  • Mack, for you to forgive this man is for you to release him to me and allow me to redeem him.†   (source)
  • Collet had been blessed with a chance to redeem his skepticism and earlier blunders.†   (source)
  • If there's anything redeeming about my mother that Aibileen left out of the letter, I want to know.†   (source)
  • But I've had the freedom to make those mistakes, and the freedom to seek redemption for them.†   (source)
  • We cannot redeem ourselves (as many of the Greeks believed).†   (source)
  • The fair was to be Burnham's redemption, and Chicago's.†   (source)
  • Or he might avoid such a fate by selling his wife or children in order to redeem his debt.†   (source)
  • Their loveis their only redeeming quality.†   (source)
  • But now you have an opportunity to redeem yourself through hard work.†   (source)
  • Sonny's Blues" is about redemption, but not the one students have been conditioned to expect.†   (source)
  • And he felt redeemed by his own loyalty to the woman he had repudiated five hours earlier.†   (source)
  • I hope you will treasure this opportunity and work hard to redeem your sins.†   (source)
  • I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.†   (source)
  • There is no redeeming piece of the story.†   (source)
  • Jesus also uses the words "Son of God," the "Kingdom of God," and "redemption."†   (source)
  • Maybe it has to do with redemption, or hope, or miracle.†   (source)
  • I want to live the right way and be redeemed.†   (source)
  • He brings a kind of hope, a kind of redemption, to this fallen world, and …. yes?†   (source)
  • The purpose is not to be released from the cycle of rebirth, but to be redeemed from sin and blame.†   (source)
  • St. Augustine's point was that no man deserves God's redemption.†   (source)
  • Man received 'free' redemption through faith alone, he said.†   (source)
  • It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rambling past.†   (source)
  • Reek …. if you have not ruined him beyond redemption, he may yet be of some use to us.†   (source)
  • He also slapped a ten down, which redeemed him a bit but not much.†   (source)
  • "May's well go on with Shad and save the Lamb the trouble of redemption."†   (source)
  • He was beginning to lose faith, but she'd redeemed herself at the bar.†   (source)
  • But there was also a touch of redemption.†   (source)
  • We can only hope he redeems himself as well as did the last Guardian of Avalon.†   (source)
  • But once he spies the bottle he drinks it as if it holds redemption.†   (source)
  • Finding Redemption Through Acceptance INTERROGATOR I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF REDEMPTION.†   (source)
  • I could not tell which face contained the elements of danger or which redemption.†   (source)
  • Pollard, too, needed a change of scenery and a chance to redeem himself.†   (source)
  • To redeem twelve years of my life, which I won't have to regret.†   (source)
  • But only God can redeem him—and it has nothing to do with giving up his heart.†   (source)
  • I nod, thinking about going "down," no last shot at redemption.†   (source)
  • They too were promised redemption, love, and a ride out.†   (source)
  • Can't really blame him for choosing redemption in a bottle.†   (source)
  • At first I thought I'd just help Shay understand redemption, and then I'd tell you the truth.†   (source)
  • They are no more in need of redemption than you are in need of a hair straightening cream.†   (source)
  • The Rio Norte Line, when rebuilt, would redeem the rest.†   (source)
  • And when you reached it, you weren't redeemed by Christ—you became a Christ.†   (source)
  • We can afford to give them up, for a short while, in order to redeem something much more precious.†   (source)
  • Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices.†   (source)
  • Redemption had very little to do with the big picture, and far more to do with the particulars.†   (source)
  • No, you did not make it worse for me, you set me free, you saved us both, you redeemed our past.†   (source)
  • The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.†   (source)
  • They did not feel the need for redemption, because they had already been redeemed.†   (source)
  • They did not feel the need for redemption, because they had already been redeemed.†   (source)
  • There was nothing she could do at it, yet she felt it might redeem her a little from inertia.†   (source)
  • "It's not pure madness to maintain that Society is rotten--rotten beyond all hope of redemption.†   (source)
  • Or at least as a failed believer seeking redemption, groping for renewed faith.†   (source)
  • Chapter One: Jehova will redeem humanity by revealing those secrets which he previously reserved only for the elect.†   (source)
  • When will she sit at the feet of Jesus, clothed with the unsullied garments of his righteousness, the stain of blood washed from her hand, and her soul redeemed, and pardoned, and in her right mind?†   (source)
  • Cholly was beyond redemption, of course, and redemption was hardly the point—Mrs. Breedlove was not interested in Christ the Redeemer, but rather Christ the Judge.†   (source)
  • So redeem yourself.†   (source)
  • I've also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption.†   (source)
  • Nothing is too doubtful to be of use to them as they seek to redeem their bodies from a lifetime of bad posture.†   (source)
  • The songs caressed her, and while she tried to hold her mind on the wages of sin, her body trembled for redemption, salvation, a mysterious rebirth that would simply happen, with no effort on her part.†   (source)
  • To New Hampshire natives, the state university— notwithstanding how basically solid an education it offered—was not exotic; to Gravesend Academy students, with their elitist eyes on the Ivy League schools, it was "a cow college," wholly beyond redemption.†   (source)
  • For I wanted to immerse my readers in an epoch in the life of the Dominican Republic that I believe can only finally be understood by fiction, only finally be redeemed by the imagination.†   (source)
  • Like I said earlier, Hegbert wanted it to be real clear who offered redemption and salvation, and it certainly wasn't going to be a few rickety ghosts who just popped up out of nowhere.†   (source)
  • No one would be redeemed by a change of evidence, for there weren't enough people, enough paper and pens, enough patience and peace, to take down the statements of all the witnesses and gather in the facts.†   (source)
  • In that moment, Henry altered something in my understanding of human potential, redemption, and hopefulness.†   (source)
  • Although I thought the Maginot Line's face, hidden under all that fat, was really sweet, I had heard too many black and red words about her, seen too many mouths go triangle at the mention of her name, to dwell on any redeeming features she might have.†   (source)
  • She thought that he would at last be convinced of the unreality of his dream, and that this would redeem his insolence.†   (source)
  • "I don't want you to redeem him!†   (source)
  • This not only precluded further pagan challenges to Christianity, but now the followers of Christ were able to redeem themselves only via the established sacred channel—the Roman Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • It hadn't occurred to me that a man's attempts to redeem himself might prolong the elation he felt when he committed the crime he now sought to make up for.†   (source)
  • It was nothing, in terms of redemption.†   (source)
  • Now, having returned to France for the first time since being arrested and shipped to prison in Andorra, Silas could feel his homeland testing him, dragging violent memories from his redeemed soul.†   (source)
  • I want to redeem him.†   (source)
  • But he gave the whole box to the child, thinking that the action would redeem him from all bitterness, and he soothed the father with a pat on the back.†   (source)
  • …confrontation with the devil, possibly tempted last seen in the company of thieves creator of many aphorisms and parables buried, but arose on the third dayhad disciples, twelve at first, although not all equally devoted very forgiving came to redeem an unworthy world You may not subscribe to this list, may find it too glib, but if you want to read like a literature professor, you need to put aside your belief system, at least for the period during which you read, so you can see what…†   (source)
  • And so she liquidated her pawn business, the treasure in the jars paid for completing and furnishing the house, and still left over were many of the most valuable old jewels in the city, whose owners did not have funds to redeem them.†   (source)
  • Inside were two thick stacks of bonds, each embossed with the Vatican seal and the title PORTATORE, making the bonds redeemable to whoever was holding them.†   (source)
  • I rock back and forth on my chair like a baby, craving so many impossible things: justice, forgiveness, redemption.†   (source)
  • It had all the elements of a true redemption story, not unlike the story of Jesus that she knew so well.†   (source)
  • For that matter, his "redemption," in which he proves he's back on track by slaughtering every Trojan in sight, strikes us as distinctly barbaric.†   (source)
  • To her mind there was an element of redemption in the return to Cousin Hildebranda's province, no matter how belated.†   (source)
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