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catharsis

noun as in purging, purification

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He suggested that instead of reading the menu, Timothy might riff about how actors chase emotional catharsis, turning the moment into a commentary rather than a performance.

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Such funerals only mark our loss and offer a brief catharsis, as though insisting that the dead have no place among us anymore.

It was a moment of raw catharsis as well as a culmination.

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As the drama reaches catharsis, the rain abates and the skies clear.

In the public sphere, there are countless variations on similar mediated versions of the truth, stories that provide a measure of emotional catharsis.

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