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catharsis
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  • I like it out here, it's cathartic, cleansing, like an ice bath.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • The "cathartic" was drastic, as Loyalist Peter Oliver observed.†  (source)
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  • The idea of suicide worked on me like a purgative or a cathartic.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Writing about my violent gang life, the drug addictions, the rages and fears proved to he risky and extremely difficult, but deeply cathartic.†  (source)
  • It was an incredible outpouring, and what a catharsis it was for me.†  (source)
  • While initially, I'd been surprised, then worried when he hadn't shown up, the entire experience had been so overwhelming-although cathartic— that I'd kind of forgotten about it once I got up on the stand.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Cathartic.†  (source)
  • The catharsis ended the moment Alex handed the cashier her credit card and heard Logan Rourke's voice in her mind.†  (source)
  • The experience, she said, was cathartic.†  (source)
  • 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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