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cathartic

adjective as in purging

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“This has been the hardest experience of my life so far, and expressing that openly has been cathartic,” she says.

During tracks about grief and loneliness, like the cathartic “Charcoal Baby,” only Hynes could get the entire crowd to head bang.

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But like many expressions of anger, this policy push is cathartic without being practical.

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The ending, impeded by a retrospective coda, diminishes the full cathartic impact.

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"In a way, the work is cathartic. It is almost mourning."

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