cathartic
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times
But like many expressions of anger, this policy push is cathartic without being practical.
From Salon
The ending, impeded by a retrospective coda, diminishes the full cathartic impact.
From Los Angeles Times
"In a way, the work is cathartic. It is almost mourning."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
