Word: redeemingly
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They were neither an admirable nor likable pair, but the diary is far from an odious document. If it does not redeem them, it does manage to enhance them, principally because of their love for each other. In his chronic deep depressions Wagner felt that only Cosima's existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven...
Leverett House's record now stands at 3-1, their only loss coming against Kirkland House. "We were glad to win because now we have a chance to redeem ourselves and beat K-House in the championship," Lewis said yesterday...
...Even her passion has poise," Schwamm writes of Natalie. The same may be said of Schwamm's minor-key prose, remarkably suited to evoking those "moments of clear, bright, sufficient joy" that elevate life and redeem grief...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was very definitely wrong when he attacked humanism and said that Western man needed to go back to spiritualism to redeem himself." Humanist Chaplain Thomas M. Ferrick said in a speech at Phillips Brooks House last night...
...dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically self aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th Century's moral poverty, which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century...