catharsis - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • experience: Once we begin examining ourselves, we will experience catharsis many, many times.
  • provide: The city may be in mourning, but the numerous church services and candlelight vigils help provide some emotional catharsis.
  • achieve: Dante ' s own anger at the darkness of his times here achieves catharsis through Mark's condemnation.
  • find: Finding subversive catharsis, random murder is depicted as not only enjoyable but indispensable for the men's peace of mind.
  • generate: First, the creative experience, when completed, may generate a catharsis.
  • create: It lies in our willingness and capacity to create global catharsis in a creative way, to precipitate change by choice.

Adjective modifier

  • emotional: The city may be in mourning, but the numerous church services and candlelight vigils help provide some emotional catharsis.
  • pure: And h er voice is pure catharsis when she asks: âWhat do I got to do to work it out?
  • social: This begins with a social catharsis and ends in social resentment, and sometimes in social bitterness too.
  • intense: So he wrote ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra ' during a period of intense catharsis, and was afterward engulfed in bitterness.
  • psychological: The diagnosis may produce a psychological catharsis which may benefit the afflicted in relation to the real fear of witchcraft.
  • major: It seems to me that in the first year of living together with her he underwent a major catharsis.

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