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Example sentences for: cathartic
How can you use “cathartic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
This curiously curt coinage, based on cathartic, at least has the merit of getting out of the usual humdrum -ize rut.
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.
A frequent mistake is the failure to dose-escalate a particular cathartic.
Indeed, the cathartic opportunities presented by such images, whether sentimental or aesthetic, have a long history of overwhelming any questions of documentary value.