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Osee Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Her performance is the film's redeeming feature

As titled, does it imply that the film as a whole is bad while her performance is very good? Thanks a lot.
  

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I understand it as that her performance was the only thing that saved the film from being horrible.

  • I understand it as that her performance was the only thing that saved the film from being horrible.
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I understand it as that her performance was the only thing that saved the film from being horrible.
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Thanks. But what's the exact meaning of the word redeeming in this sentence?
Zerox I understand it as that her performance was the only thing that saved the film from being horrible.
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The word 'redeeming' has a sense of 'good' in the given context.
Her performance was the only good aspect of the film. The rest of the film was horrible.
Therefore, her performance saved the film from being 100% horrible.

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