Sample Sentences for
catharsis
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    Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.  (source)
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    I hope for some sort of cathartic release, but there isn't one.  (source)
    cathartic = causing the release of emotional tensions
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    I like it out here, it's cathartic, cleansing, like an ice bath.  (source)
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    It was very cathartic for a lot of people, myself included.  (source)
    cathartic = causing the release of emotional tensions
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    Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what had happened to me, how I'd allowed myself to get dragged into a wrong war, all the mistakes I'd made, all the terrible things I had seen and done.†  (source)
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    And cathartic.  (source)
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    Moreover, I agree that readers are often poorly served when an author writes as an act of catharsis, as I have done here.†  (source)
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    Writing about my violent gang life, the drug addictions, the rages and fears proved to he risky and extremely difficult, but deeply cathartic.†  (source)
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    Her catharsis is absolutely tremendous-ha, ha!†  (source)
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    The idea of suicide worked on me like a purgative or a cathartic.†  (source)
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    After a time, I came to think that visiting memorials was in part a willed catharsis.†  (source)
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    It was cathartic and constructive and destructive and perfect.†  (source)
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    A catharsis.†  (source)
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