catharsis
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On day three, a catharsis would begin like the Mississippi overflowing its banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Fast forward a year later... this is catharsis - for Mexicans especially, but for Latinos in general."
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
"There was an amazing kind of collective catharsis," Wilde told AFP at the Hollywood premiere of her new film, in which she shares the screen with Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
I suspect that no such event will ever occur, but if it does it probably won’t follow that sort of script or deliver a satisfactory catharsis.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Adams had expressed his feisty and passionate objections to the Jeffersonian constructions in one last catharsis.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
During the emotionally lurid “trust exercises” he runs in class, he forces students into unwelcome catharses regarding their relationships and friendships.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019
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 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
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