purgative
Example Sentences
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The juxtaposition of such a technologically enabled act — I recorded, therefore I was — and the most basic and purgative of elements invites irony where it is least wanted.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018
The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2018
By the middle of the bridge — “Don’t stop dreamin’, don’t stop believin’” — you may be itching for some big, purgative blast to wake you up, and wash away the cliché.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2018
And this, too, felt like a purgative end to 2016.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
As if the' air w'ere a purgative, his valve opened.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
