catharsis

On day three, a catharsis would begin like the Mississippi overflowing its banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

She questions her devotion to her career, worrying about the physical toll it takes, but ultimately finds catharsis in the primal power of her own voice.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Honestly, I hung in through the rather slow opening of this season in large part because I craved the catharsis of seeing it all work out in the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

"There was an amazing kind of collective catharsis," Wilde told AFP at the Hollywood premiere of her new film, in which she shares the screen with Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The third church offered passion and catharsis; it was a place where you truly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit inside you.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Drawing from his life in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Mr. Kahan writes about quiet moments in small towns that lead to grand catharses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Both Emma and Peter are stuck in unsatisfactory career situations that were “supposed to be temporary”; you can smell the catharses coming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” is, at the same time, filled with showy, affected writing, with forced catharses and swollen quasi-profundities.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2019

This can make for a frustrating viewing experience in the moment, a film whose moral ambiguities and incomplete catharses don’t map onto a known horror template.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2019

With midrange adult dramas increasingly being concerned with personal portraiture and psycho-emotional catharses, sharp, thematically pertinent movies are in danger of being relegated to metaphorical kitsch, however smart and well executed.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017