catharsis

Cornered, the liar finally admits, accidentally or intentionally, the truth; justice prevails and catharsis is achieved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

No history, no struggle, no catharsis, no exploration, no humanity.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Many in the nation felt catharsis, and deep respect for those who had pulled it off after nearly a decade of often-frustrated efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“You’re not going to have a grand catharsis or a life-changing turn,” Ball says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

With midrange adult dramas increasingly being concerned with personal portraiture and psycho-emotional catharses, sharp, thematically pertinent movies are in danger of being relegated to metaphorical kitsch, however smart and well executed.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017