Sentences with phrase «redemptive tale»

For adult readers and for some older teens this redemptive tale of forgiveness and loss will strike a nerve and be remembered for some time to come.

So, we would rather have powerfully redemptive tale, but we're realistic enough to realize that they are still rare.

Three Billboards is a redemptive tale about a couple of lost souls fumbling their way toward enlightenment.

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Here, they go all in with a redemptive tale that takes some unexpected turns even as it appears to be sticking with the safe bets.

There's a lot of redemptive tales at play in «The Foreigner».

Not exact matches

Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and / or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.

One could go on to discuss the committed and rather spectacular performance that Miles Teller gives in the role Pazienza, or the cool aesthetic that matches the time period in small, effective ways, but despite the casts best efforts and writer / director Ben Younger's endeavor to paint more a portrait of a man determined to overcome the odds rather than going through the motions of another redemptive sports tale, Bleed for This unfortunately ends up reducing itself to just that.

It maintains the uneasy front of a redemptive fairy tale and will connect with Academy voters» unconscious.

Her second novel, a redemptive ghost story titled Music of Sacred Lakes, and her first short story collection, The Thin Places: Supernatural Tales of the Unseen, received rave reviews, and Music of Sacred Lakes also topped the Kindle free bestseller lists during its launch.

It takes Lucinda through an epiphany and an unlikely romance in a tale that is redemptive, wickedly witty, and heartbreaking all at once.

Redemptive and spirit - filled tales are needed at a time like this.

Tiger Woods, who become his own cautionary tale, makes his biggest pitch for a redemptive comeback this week.