catharsis

No history, no struggle, no catharsis, no exploration, no humanity.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

They experience a brief catharsis, a release of their anxiety about succumbing to temptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

As the rocket rumbled along the Space Coast, nerves turned into catharsis for JPL scientists and engineers looking on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

But it is also the site of great catharsis and creativity, as per a recent, acclaimed documentary named after the studio.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

The third church offered passion and catharsis; it was a place where you truly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit inside you.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Drawing from his life in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Mr. Kahan writes about quiet moments in small towns that lead to grand catharses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Both Emma and Peter are stuck in unsatisfactory career situations that were “supposed to be temporary”; you can smell the catharses coming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

This can make for a frustrating viewing experience in the moment, a film whose moral ambiguities and incomplete catharses don’t map onto a known horror template.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2019

“The Rose Tattoo” does not provide any of the anguished catharses of Williams’s celebrated dramas, but there’s something refreshing in the play’s bright colors and Serafina’s amusingly overripe emotional extravagance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016

The peals of laughter that rumbled across Broadway in the months following the terrorist attacks were emblematic of the most exuberant theatrical catharses I have ever experienced.

From Washington Post