Words similar to cathartic

Example sentences for: cathartic

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It'd certainly be more cathartic for the anti-smoking forces, and probably less painful for the tobacco industry, than the farcical death by a thousand cuts process that's currently underway in Washington.
Service, too, might be cathartic enough to liberate us from our Flytrap obsession.
In contrast, the Euro-skeptic Times of London speculated that the collective action might, in fact, represent a further avoidance of individual responsibility, and worried about the possible "renomination" of the entire commission (an idea floated by Santer Tuesday): "This supposedly cathartic drama could end up as a 'Japanese' purge, in which heads roll only to ensure that things continue much as before, with much the same discredited cast.
This curiously curt coinage, based on cathartic, at least has the merit of getting out of the usual humdrum -ize rut.
He makes a fatal miscalculation: The initial murders are so horrifying in their plainness that when the movie takes the gentlemanly way out and refuses to provide a cathartic bloodbath, the audience feels burned.