Sentences with phrase «themes of absolution»

Ida is not always an easy film but it's potent and powerful, rife with themes of absolution and guilt.»

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The Marian theology (especially Wagner's suggested conflation of the goddess Venus with Mary), the knight asking for absolution from the pope, the theme of «works righteousness,» the notion that Tannhäuser is saved by Elisabeth who both sacrifices herself for him on this earth and then in the afterlife intercedes before God on his behalf, and the fact that Tannhäuser himself is redeemed only to die» all these are, to the conservative Protestant at least, distortions of Christianity.

«Hostiles» is gritty and gruesome, with deep themes of desperate antipathy and somber absolution, both of oneself and with those who have done us wrong.