Sample sentences for CATHARSIS

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Definition

purging of emotional tensions

Much more rarely, catharsis can reference purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.

Inevitable catharsis by the threads of chaos.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

The idea of suicide worked on me like a purgative or a cathartic.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
After a time, I came to think that visiting memorials was in part a willed catharsis.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
To free itself totally, to revenge itself, to work its ultimate catharsis, it resolves to seek them out and destroy them.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
I hope for some sort of cathartic release, but there isn't one.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
Then, there in the middle of the communal catharsis, I found it: a public apology from the young driver, Jamie Bardol.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
We need books of this tart cathartic virtue, more than books of political science, or of private economy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The "cathartic" was drastic, as Loyalist Peter Oliver observed.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
The experience, she said, was cathartic.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
Her catharsis is absolutely tremendous-ha, ha!
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
It was cathartic and constructive and destructive and perfect.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
The catharsis ended the moment Alex handed the cashier her credit card and heard Logan Rourke's voice in her mind.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
There are two kinds of M.D.'s— those to whom c. c. means cubic centimeter and those to whom it means compound cathartic.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
It was very cathartic for a lot of people, myself included.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
Writing about my violent gang life, the drug addictions, the rages and fears proved to he risky and extremely difficult, but deeply cathartic.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Moreover, I agree that readers are often poorly served when an author writes as an act of catharsis, as I have done here.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
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.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
A catharsis.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
Cathartic.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
After years of watching women quietly accept abuse, it is cathartic to see someone like Usha lead a countercharge—even if we're uncomfortable with the bloody denouement and cannot condone murder.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

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