catharsis
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Cornered, the liar finally admits, accidentally or intentionally, the truth; justice prevails and catharsis is achieved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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
But, over time, as they peel away each other’s defenses and histories, their romance both deepens and frays as they find their way to possible catharses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
With midrange adult dramas increasingly being concerned with personal portraiture and psycho-emotional catharses, sharp, thematically pertinent movies are in danger of being relegated to metaphorical kitsch, however smart and well executed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017
It’s a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didn’t know you needed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
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