"redemptive experience" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which someone gains a deeper understanding or appreciation of something due to overcoming a difficult challenge. For example, "His cancer diagnosis led to an incredibly redemptive experience - he learned how to appreciate his life and the people around him."
"This has all been a redemptive experience," she said.
Yet despite, or perhaps because of, the smaller crowd, Super Ball IX felt in many ways like a redemptive experience for both the band and its fans.
I wondered whether, given that drugs and alcohol were still a part of his life during the years he was writing "NYPD Blue," the creating of "Deadwood" had somehow been a more redemptive experience.
For although they felt drawn to the most destructive kind of journalism - which maims and kills, wrecks marriages and damages the psyche; which can breed cynicism and contempt - their practice of it transformed it into a redemptive experience.
By no means was any of this a redemptive experience or a model of overcoming adversity, but it did confirm that survival is possible for someone who does not do well in social situations.
But unlike Fight Club, the discovery of true manliness in About a Boy - taking responsibility, relating to women as individuals, cultivating a mature response to children - is a gentle and redemptive experience.
It was here, Bell argues, that "an enthusiasm for war as a redemptive, regenerative experience, previously found only in the writings of a few intellectuals... came to pervade German elite culture".
Members of the minyanim are looking for "redemptive, transformative experiences that give rhythm to their days and weeks and give meaning to their lives," said Joelle Novey, 28, a founder of Tikkun Leil Shabbat, whose name alludes to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or repairing the world.
If I discovered something redemptive in this experience, it's that capacity for stillness.
And to find redemptive meaning in the experience".
For Fuller no further explanation is necessary, nor is there when Lucky Legs and Brock experience their redemptive breakthroughs.
