“That the musician manages one grace note makes the piece almost redeemable.”

“Surrey was a nasty, brutal man with scarcely one redeemable quality.”

“Employers either paid them in scrip redeemable only at plantation stores or simply kept a record of their purchases and labor.”

“After years of struggling with his past, he found solace in the arms of his redeemed lover who had forgiven him for his mistakes.”

“Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth.”

“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.”

“Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind.”

“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.”

“He did have one redeeming quality. He dressed very well, for those who thought taste in clothes was a redeeming quality.”