Sentence examples for book redeeming from inspiring English sources
On Monday he was at the District Six museum for the launch of the struggle veteran Michael Lapsley's book Redeeming the Past, along with guests including Marius Fransman, the deputy foreign minister, and other high-ranking figures.
In her first book, Redeeming the Communist Past, she examined the paradox of the communist successor parties in East Central Europe: incompetent as authoritarian rulers of the communist party-state, several then succeeded as democratic competitors after the collapse of these communist regimes in 1989.
And you may know I have another book -- "Redeeming Mathematics" is the title -- where I discuss the fact that there can actually be differences at a high level in mathematics, that not everybody accepts the same mathematical truths.
The book redeems itself with informative technical details: floor plans, plus notes on where subwoofers were tucked behind Mediterranean Revival stonework or fiber-optic night skies.
For all of its sprawl and torpor, the book redeems itself in at least two ways -- first as an embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own.
His second book, Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (2010), winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award, examines the development of missionary Christianity into a vibrant, indigenous faith of the Chinese masses.
For all that, Pindell has crammed "Making Tracks" with many unusual facts and observations--I certainly didn't know the term "cowcatcher" once was literal: the contraptions initially made of pointed spikes and intended to turn inattentive animals into the train crew's next meal--and at those moments, the book redeems itself.
I spoke to Professor Mary Boys who teaches at Union Theological Seminary and recently wrote a book called Redeeming our Sacred Story: The Death of Jesus and Relations between Jews and Christians.
His books include Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief (Routledge, 2002).
Even so, the book partly redeems itself by its passion and chutzpah.
Overall, however, the book was redeemed by its strongest parts; these included a surplus of well-researched detail and a present-day frame, in the authors own voice, describing his search for the truth.
