Examples of salvific in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But Whitehead literalized the metaphor, and Jenkins corroborates that pomposity, neglecting black spirituality, blunting any poetic, salvific beauty of liberation. — Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021 By depicting this historical atrocity and recasting it within a salvific Black narrative, with Black heroes ready to fight, these stories offer a way, much like the blues, to transcend pain not by evading it but by making it into art. — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021 Yet those salvific moves haven’t eased the ethnic tension, economic challenges, and institutional corruption that has bedeviled the nation. — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 24 June 2019 That meaning gained will remain for the living to have, and can be salvific. — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019 Unfortunately, Senator Murphy’s belief in the cleansing, salvific power of the state is not at all foreign to American politics — not even close. — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 28 July 2017

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