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How to use catharsis in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word catharsis? Here are some examples.

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Watching him perform, spittle flying from his mouth, veins bulging and neck tendons taut as wires, I hope that performance is catharsis for him.
With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a crude ego trip.
After wading through the shallow molasses of the agnostic gospel slop, I was in need of a true church catharsis.
Like a creature of nature who can quickly adapt to her surroundings, I hibernate, metamorphose, undergo catharsis and finally become a butterfly.
Nevertheless, there is, I'm sure, a certain catharsis involved in expunging one's darkest secrets in those sealed little booths.
Using the doll, he demonstrated how viewing aggression causes emulation of that behavior, rather than catharsis.
It's a form of catharsis that by mortifying flesh you will actually develop your spiritual side.
The appearance of pity and fear on both sides of the footlights seems not to rule out catharsis as a principle in dramatic criticism.
They always seem to focus on surprise and juxtaposition, or tension relief, or catharsis, or something.
There is a strong element of theatre, of catharsis and self-purification, to the ritual of statue-smashing.
Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis.
There is catharsis, release, and a dispersion of pent-up emotions and feelings.
They seem to be waiting for something, perhaps catharsis or relief, but it's not coming anytime soon.
He really enjoys himself when he can mentally terrorize his audience, shocking them to a catharsis.
Exposure to luminaries such as Milton Glaser and techniques such as photocomposition engendered a catharsis.
I wonder if he knows that catharsis can mean a cleansing or purging of the bowels.
And I think there will be a sense of catharsis and relief on the part of the majority of the Peruvian population.
By the time the inside-out flesh fiend shows up to correct the carnal corruption, a kind of catharsis occurs.
When did you last get that chariot ride of emotion and catharsis that Aristotle thought was so good for us all?
The purpose of tragedy is catharsis, a powerful emotional experience in which the audience purges the emotions of pity and fear.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Evacuations by venesection and catharsis, and then by the exhibition of opium.
He however refers only to the catharsis upon the spectator, but not to that of the author's work upon himself.
He had no sympathy with the poetry that had a social message and he did not understand its effect as a catharsis.
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