catharsis
Example Sentences
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“It was this amazing collective feeling of catharsis and connection to something bigger than ourselves.”
From Los Angeles Times
The best songs on the album are rich with such moments of catharsis, where an arrangement builds to an emotionally wrenching peak and Mr. Ellis’s voice carries it through.
But once you decide to level with your children with bracing honesty and vulnerability, you’re well on your way to achieving catharsis.
From MarketWatch
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.
From Los Angeles Times
Such funerals only mark our loss and offer a brief catharsis, as though insisting that the dead have no place among us anymore.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
