How to Use catharsis in a Sentence

catharsis

noun

• Acting is a means of catharsis for her.
• Painting is a catharsis for me.
• As soon as we emerged from the gates of the White House, I became aware of that sea of faces.  … I wanted to cry for them and with them, but it was impossible to permit the catharsis of tears.
  — Lady Bird Johnson, 24 Nov. 1963
• Still, the climax arrives with tear-jerking catharsis all the same.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• The audience, Chavkin thought, needed catharsis, a way to move past the story’s tragedy.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2019
• Popular art about the Holocaust has long been a series of lesson plans, a conduit for catharsis.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
• This song is exactly about that, adding a level of catharsis and laudable maturity to his catalog.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
• Twitter, home base for raw and often irrational emotion, served as instant catharsis, the virtual shoulder on which the world could cry.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Jan. 2020
• Any who felt closure or, as colleague Gregg Doyel wrote Saturday, catharsis, surely deserved it.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2020
• At the end of the movie, Delphine’s sighting of the ray prompts an illuminating catharsis, and a connection with a new companion.
  — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
• That acknowledgment provided some catharsis in the wake of countless #MeToo scandals.
  — Dana Stevens, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• So far, McCracken says, the songs project an alienation and hooky catharsis redolent of the group’s 2002 debut.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
• Raindrops and tears can be visually similar, both representing catharsis.
  — Tegan Tegani, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
• The scene where he gets drafted is an indelible image of that film, with Boseman delivering a mix of shock, relief, catharsis and pure happiness in one speechless moment.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• The fact of killing has carried a sort of catharsis with it.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• Halsey’s songs seem to come from a place of pain or catharsis.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2021
• And making the film was, in a way, a form of catharsis before the event, which seems very strange.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Killing Howard will be a form of justice and catharsis.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• When the ball found the bottom of the net, DeRozan unleashed a primal scream of pure catharsis.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2021
• Collins isn’t the only star who’s used hairstyling as catharsis.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• By the end of the episode, most of our favorite surgeons have found at least some catharsis.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
• Landis, for his part, views his new book as a form of catharsis.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• There’s catharsis for Queenie by the end, and for the viewers lucky enough to go on the journey with her.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
• The catharsis of tragedy, the cleansing of the human mind, can feel a little like a Finnish sauna, painful and good at the same time.
  — Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• In the midst of a crisis, great late-night TV can feel like catharsis, even a kind of lifeline.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Loneliest Time was Jepsen’s attempt to spin catharsis out of tragedy.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2022
• Metellus worked the first marathon after 9/11 and understands the catharsis the race can give the city.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2021
• Springsteen sang of being trapped on the edge of catharsis, and the music seemed to want to suspend time.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
• Everybody wants to have that form of catharsis in their lives.
  — Gordon Cox, Variety, 17 June 2023
• This year, though, the movies might offer an even deeper kind of catharsis.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024