Sentences with phrase «ultimately redemptive»

Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family — with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy — pushed to its outer limits.

A great storyteller, she recounts this last painful, ultimately redemptive chapter of her life in her unique mix of lyric, metaphor - filled phrasing and cussing - cowboy wisecracking.

As a result of this passion for bringing light to a difficult subject, Coyne's empathic and ultimately redemptive first novel has struck a chord with early readers in ways that have completely amazed her.

In «A Family Man,» Gerard Butler (who also produced) plays the classic type - A corporate arsehole who gets an ultimately redemptive wake - up call when a crisis forcibly reminds him that The Really Important Thing Is Family.

O Brother is often silly, but ultimately redemptive and hopeful whereas Inside Llewyn Davis is kind of sad and a little bit haunting despite being ripe with the expected off kilter humor.

Divine judgment, historical judgment, consistent, on the one hand, in its punitive quality with the concept of God - as - Creator - Judge but, on the other hand, transcended in the main by the concept of God - as - Redeemer into judgment not merely punitive but ultimately itself redemptive in character and purpose.

Believing that every repression of energy is a repetition of Calvary, Blake finally came to see that the very horror of the sacrifice which Satan demands in all his multiple forms is ultimately a redemptive horror, a darkness which must become light.

Not exact matches

The Christian believer affirms that all things at all times are to be seen for what they ultimately and truly are when they are seen within the context of the light of the divine creative and redemptive Love.

They predicted the Fall, or saw it in retrospect, as the judgment of God upon an unfaithful and sinful nation, but they understood the function of the catastrophe to be ultimately, like the Exodus event, positive and redemptive in character.

Our hopes will ultimately find their restful bliss in Christ and His redemptive plan.

The man Amos, the prophet Amos, could not have spoken with such passion on behalf of Yahweh except in the faith that the very historical judgment which he proclaimed was itself ultimately positive and redemptive in divine purpose.

The movie ultimately proves to be a beautifully scaled depiction of the redemptive power of love.