Sentences with phrase «redemptive qualities»
"Redemptive qualities" refers to the positive or redeeming attributes or characteristics that someone or something possesses. It implies that despite any flaws or mistakes, there are still good or valuable traits that can make up for it or bring about improvement or salvation. Full definition
While the judge cited some of Dean Skelos's accomplishments and service to his constituents, it was clear that she found few redemptive qualities in his son.
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Williams?s work has an almost redemptive quality — her painstaking and meticulous handiwork reinvesting these often unloved structures with something of the idealism, freshness and beauty that the architects originally planned.
There's definitely a redemptive quality that he needs to play upon and I believe the way you play upon that is to go quiet for a while.
«This was a system that was developed, designed to rehabilitate and what this governor is saying (is) we have no redemptive qualities.»
Nicholson finally gets to play a rotten bastard without diluting his character with any redemptive qualities, while Damon sheds his sympathetic Everyman persona for the first time since «The Talented Mr. Ripley.»
In an award season where no clear best picture has yet to emerge, «Babel» — a complex multilevel story of pain and the redemptive quality of love set in four countries — emerged a favorite Thursday by besting the competition with seven Golden Globe nominations, including for best dramatic picture and supporting actor Brad Pitt.
«Drive» portrays how violence can be a redemptive quality in a hero.
In depicting the crumbling marriage of Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams), director Derek Cianfrance flatly rejects the redemptive qualities of romance, and delves unsparingly into the reality of two lives that are slowly and painfully ossifying.
Relentlessly reductive, Haneke stacks the deck by stripping the genre of its redemptive qualities and transgressive power and then chastizes the audience for its presence at such an untoward spectacle.
There is both a redemptive quality in the conclusion also room for a sequel in the off chance this inexpensive thriller makes bank.
Though certainly more substantive than the hit - and - run remake of Walking Tall, Tony Scott's Man on Fire falls far below the redemptive qualities of Kill Bill, Vol.