| 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. |
| They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel. |
| You've done a lot of work with prisoners, dealing with the redemptive power of art. |
| He dies, some say, with a redemptive, even hopeful vision emerging provisionally, perhaps delusively from the suffering of the tragedy. |
| Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. |
