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It's the sound of genuine catharsis, of poison being expelled into the air, of bottomless anguish and joyous liberation.
For the record, I'm basically against the death penalty on the grounds that its application is discriminatory, mistaken executions of innocent people are inevitable, keeping people on death row for years during the appeal process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, yet limiting appeals is even worse, there's no evidence that executions have any practical deterrent effect, and emotional catharsis is not a good enough reason for the state to kill people.
There's no such thing as catharsis: Come once, you'll want to come again and again and again.
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.
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."