"past redemption" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It means that something is beyond saving or repair. Example: The company's reputation was past redemption after the scandal was exposed.
One of our very first blog posts featured Jonathan Swift's complaint that English was very nearly past redemption.
The windows are a distant memory and whatever a 1996 fire failed to damage past redemption, vandals accomplished.
"If the West Side does not stir you, you are a clod, past redemption," Robert Moses once said.
You can compare that to some of past redemption scenes of Wagner, of course, but it's totally in a French atmosphere.
Carola Long Now the couch potato can look like a sack of spuds If you know what a Snuggie is, you probably own one already and are past redemption.
Should Hutchinson publish an omnibus selection, as well as Harris's Requiem and Holiday, prime candidates would include A Serious Woman (1961), The Golden Evening (1968), Valley of Decision (1985), An After Dinner's Sleep (1986), Recovery (1988), A Place to Stand (1992) and Married Past Redemption (1993).
It's a form of pastoral, most reminiscent perhaps of westerns where a man with a violent past seeks redemption in a quiet new life.
Akinsanya's criminal past and redemption story have been well documented.
He's a man seeking an escape from his past and redemption.
It is a season when no dream of success is too outlandish, no past failure beyond redemption.
In recounting some of the worst episodes of our past, Lawrence found redemption through art, and he made us see it, too, so that we come away feeling fortified, not embittered, which is an amazing feat.
