purgative
Example Sentences
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The juxtaposition of such a technologically enabled act — I recorded, therefore I was — and the most basic and purgative of elements invites irony where it is least wanted.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
And this, too, felt like a purgative end to 2016.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
It is Artenol, his new quarterly magazine, described on its website as “a purgative for an ailing art world, a palliative for afflicted aesthetes.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2015
The Council of Trent, which had been convened in response to the threat posed by Protestantism, had ended only two years previously and the counter-Reformation, with its purgative restatement of Catholic first principles, was underway.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
As if the' air w'ere a purgative, his valve opened.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
