salvific

Example Sentences

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Mr. Scorsese suggests there is something salvific in crafting a thing of beauty—even when its subject is hell and one of its residents.

From The Wall Street Journal

Or the hero might instead be a salvific figure, someone like Malcolm X or Huey P. Newton, who rejects the racist nation.

From New York Times

It’s a reconfiguration of the myth that women are the root of humanity’s sins, suggesting instead that a Black female body, mind and spirit can be a universal place for powerful beginnings or salvific transformations.

From New York Times

Running for office while at the intersection of many identities is not salvific.

From The Guardian

But if books were a gift for my father—transportive, salvific—he made sure that, for his children, they were a given.

From The New Yorker