Watching him perform, spittle flying from his mouth, veins bulging and neck tendons taut as wires, I hope that performance is catharsis for him. |
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With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a crude ego trip. |
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After wading through the shallow molasses of the agnostic gospel slop, I was in need of a true church catharsis. |
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Like a creature of nature who can quickly adapt to her surroundings, I hibernate, metamorphose, undergo catharsis and finally become a butterfly. |
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Nevertheless, there is, I'm sure, a certain catharsis involved in expunging one's darkest secrets in those sealed little booths. |
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Using the doll, he demonstrated how viewing aggression causes emulation of that behavior, rather than catharsis. |
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It's a form of catharsis that by mortifying flesh you will actually develop your spiritual side. |
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The appearance of pity and fear on both sides of the footlights seems not to rule out catharsis as a principle in dramatic criticism. |
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They always seem to focus on surprise and juxtaposition, or tension relief, or catharsis, or something. |
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There is a strong element of theatre, of catharsis and self-purification, to the ritual of statue-smashing. |
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Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis. |
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There is catharsis, release, and a dispersion of pent-up emotions and feelings. |
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They seem to be waiting for something, perhaps catharsis or relief, but it's not coming anytime soon. |
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He really enjoys himself when he can mentally terrorize his audience, shocking them to a catharsis. |
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Exposure to luminaries such as Milton Glaser and techniques such as photocomposition engendered a catharsis. |
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I wonder if he knows that catharsis can mean a cleansing or purging of the bowels. |
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And I think there will be a sense of catharsis and relief on the part of the majority of the Peruvian population. |
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By the time the inside-out flesh fiend shows up to correct the carnal corruption, a kind of catharsis occurs. |
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When did you last get that chariot ride of emotion and catharsis that Aristotle thought was so good for us all? |
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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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After that initial catharsis had passed she asked me to fill in some questionnaires so that she could establish my state of mind. |
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The showing of Anatomy of Pain on television was seen as poignant and revealing, a sort of purgation, catharsis. |
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Eminem may fit into that tradition of lyrical catharsis and boulevard jeremiads, but he certainly didn't create it. |
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Despite the stasis of the couples' narratives, however, a kind of catharsis seems finally to take place. |
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We're left confused, appalled, and with no clear idea about anyone's guilt and no place to put our mixed emotions, no catharsis at all. |
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From this call-and-response interaction with Joyce, Lucas gains strength, and from their musical fusion emerges the blues catharsis that defines him and inspirits his people. |
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If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis. |
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So much of the catharsis of Nirvana, and the indie effloresce that came in its wake, was a negativity that was refreshing. |
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I spent an hour in a state of catharsis, reveling in the sufficiency of the insults. |
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Purgation, or catharsis, releases emotions at the final stage of Greek tragedies. |
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Whether these mawkish interludes work as catharsis only the author can tell. |
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Climategate had no such catharsis, because it revealed no sin so heinous. Climategate did not materially effect the outcome of Copenhagen. |
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The catharsis may come about at the physical level as a kind of cleaning or detoxification. |
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By doing this, joking kinship makes it possible to defuse aggressiveness by means of a catharsis conveyed through humour and polite derision. |
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The spiritual catharsis happens at deeper levels, purging the self of difficulties, toxins and traumas accumulated in the course of life. |
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Well, I think all songs are a form of catharsis, even the most lightweight, anecdotal ones like Ses yeux brûlent. |
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Music can be many things-an inspiration, an expression, a catharsis, a primal connection between people. |
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Even then, the bet is not totally won since rumour in many societies plays a role in social catharsis. |
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Of course, a sense of catharsis is central to a book of this nature. |
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Once, she had simply blurted out her feelings, yet there had been no catharsis, no flood of relief, only an empty realisation that she had made her mother cry. |
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For instance, Brecht challenged the worth of stories that merely entertain, amuse or at best, provide emotional involvement and release through catharsis. |
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For the fans, this dance provides catharsis and releases pent-up energy. |
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These acidify the proximal colon and result in a dose dependent catharsis. |
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And ultimately, he makes you feel the catharsis in violence, the adrenaline rush, and the shame in that. |
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But I always feel that making the film is the catharsis that stops the nightmares, if you will. |
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Encountering such exaggerations on the page serves as a kind of catharsis, and provides a kind of perspective. |
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Thus, catharsis, in a physiological sense, has been difficult to substantiate, but the results are by no means conclusive. |
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This has some associations with the theory of catharsis, a view that is linked to purification and cleansing. |
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There has been no catharsis of moral or strategic rectitude. |
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Rapture was self-transcending, which led to quiescence, tranquility, and catharsis. |
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The families are so caught up in an illogical belief in the emotional catharsis of execution that they remain in a state of suspended animation for years at a time. |
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But, we are filled with a sense of emotional catharsis when we see it because it tells the truth in a much more real way than any news story or blog post has ever done. |
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And yet it still had the sting of catharsis, letting Walt say what he felt: that Skyler is a whiner, a nag, a drag, responsible for anything that happened to her. |
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This Gothic thanatophilia allows us to experience death in a virtual form so that we are able to deal with thanatophobia via a kind of catharsis. |
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If you were driven nuts by the twenty-four-hour shouters, if you couldn't bear to watch any more flashing chyrons and Sam the Eagle gravitas, here was your catharsis. |
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Directing all the pain and rage of a losing bet towards, for example, Liverpool's slapstick slaphead Pepe Reina can provide genuine catharsis. |
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The sense of witnessing a classic dramatic tragedy is suggested by the hint of catharsis in the separate narratives the siblings present. |
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If Fujiwara were a pathological liar, this could be art as public catharsis. |
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Finally it will contribute to the process of reconciliation by replacing the stigma of collective guilt with the catharsis of individual accountability. |
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Similarly, the idea that observing or participating in violence provides an outlet for our aggressive energy, according to the catharsis theory that dates back to antiquity, has been demolished. |
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In this show, Miltos MANETAS questions, both, like a tribute and a catharsis, his relationship with three women an Italian renowned artist, a Japanese icon and a young American fashion designer. |
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Despite the catharsis, however, one unpleasantry lingered, uncharted. |
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Second, victim impact statements may provide some sense of catharsis for victims, particularly those who choose not to pursue any form of redress in the parallel stream of the civil law. |
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That road of catharsis shall free us from a collective guilt but it requires pointing at commanders and perpetrators of that crime and rapid action on their arrest. |
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Tragedy is the imitation of action arousing pity and fear, and is meant to effect the catharsis of those same emotions. |
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The provisions in this bill to create a community impact statement provision for fraud offences share these three purposes: education, catharsis and information. |
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This transformation, if not catharsis, which reveals the strong will and ethical commitment of the City and its citizens, contains lessons from which other communities may learn. |
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We must, however, strive to see that out of this trauma comes something of a catharsis, so that civil society is reinforced by its great efforts to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake crisis. |
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And even though we don't have Whitsesnake on hand for a little '80s rock catharsis, we DO have White Mullet, for whom that particular brand of '80s metal is a specialty. |
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Macedonia is living a genuine national catharsis these days following the success of the Macedonian national basketball team at the European Championship. |
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Endless, determined work on the GUE had taught me a great deal about writing, and the catharsis of reaching the final page proved that I was capable of telling a whole story. |
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