Example sentences for: catharsis

How can you use “catharsis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Asking whether the report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission "has deepened the divisions it was intended to close or whether it will provide a necessary catharsis," the Financial Times of London said Thursday that, "at first glance, the omens are inauspicious."

  • has neither the style of Strictly Ballroom nor the cheap catharsis of Dirty Dancing . But the clunkiness is director Masayuki Suo's way of stopping to make sure that he's emotionally accurate.

  • I don't want to punish him or have a national catharsis.

  • There's no such thing as catharsis: Come once, you'll want to come again and again and again.

  • "Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Glieberman.


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