Sentence examples for worldly redemption from inspiring English sources

He is unconcerned with worldly redemption.

Just as priests mediate access to the grace of God, so bankers serve as gatekeepers, opening and closing access to capital, the means of this-worldly redemption.

Before Ira's drinking split the brothers apart, in 1963, they recorded songs of heavenly redemption and worldly heartbreak that would influence such singers as the Everly Brothers, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, and Kris Kristofferson, who, in a brief foreword to the book, describes the brothers' music as a kind of "blood harmony".

The sublime sounds of the Rev. Thomas Dorsey, the Soul Stirrers, Blind Willie Johnson and the Swan Silvertones (whose version of "A Christian's Plea" is sampled in an amazing hip-hop track by the Nappy Roots) are immune to mockery, and they provide a curiously effective counterpoint -- and a measure of redemption -- for the worldly, and sometimes world-weary, humor the Coens purvey.

In "The Greatness, Mr. Williamss's look-alike vase, shattered by a bullet, disintegrates into a fractured universe while the bullet, like Dante guided by Virgil, travels through visions of hell and redemption accompanied by an other-worldly soundtrack composed by Mr. Morricone.

And Rosenzweig depicts the redemptive bringing together of the worldly objects of narrative and the persons of dialogue in the communal song that anticipates the ultimate unity of redemption.

Part I, which was in print for over a century, focuses on Emily, Lucy and Henry's realization of their "human depravity" (original sin) and their consequent need for redemption; Parts II and III emphasize more worldly lessons such as etiquette and virtuous consumerism.

How worldly?

More worldly.

"This generation is worldly.

"Worldly Wise, Locally Savvy".