But there's partial redemption in the use of two coils of pastel-colored yoga straps.
For governments, as for people, the end can offer a partial redemption, helping to define their reputations.
And lest we forget, for all of Combo's partial redemption, Milky was the blameless original victim and, as it turned out, the final one too.
For eBay, selling Skype — particularly at a valuation higher than many analysts had thought possible — offers partial redemption for a deal that many Internet analysts said was an awkward fit.
Like their cousins, the earnest, Oscar-trolling biopics featuring movie stars doing careful impressions, these cut-and-paste lives trace a familiar narrative of rise, fall and at least partial redemption.
Easy to please, the fans forgave Amar'e Stoudemire's attempted smackdown of a fire extinguisher casing after Game 2 in Miami and roared for his 20 points and 10 rebounds as at least partial redemption.
This is the story of a down-at-the-heels former star professor and his protégé rotting in the New Orleans house bequeathed them by a legendary folk-blues singer and their partial redemption when the singer's alienated daughter comes to live with them.
But Thursday night's debate offers the national media -- especially the cable television outlets -- a shot at partial redemption.
Boosters of the surge in Iraq frequently refer to it as if it were partial redemption for the disastrous decision to invade in the first place.
But for Arthur, another New York baron whose suspect character and surprising elevation spurred much public outcry, the story is different a political fairy tale, contrary to Garfield's dream, of partial but astonishing redemption.
