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
• We are teased with a race catharsis between mother and child that never comes to fruition.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Rogers Arena was the sound of pure joy colliding with catharsis.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• Sergio, terrified of losing his, pounds on his drums for catharsis.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
• The odyssey makes Zhao’s film a transfixing mix of reckoning and catharsis.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021
• But like all tense and psychotic thrillers must, things wrapped up with a sense of relative catharsis and resolution.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• The angsty drafts didn’t reach complete catharsis, the uplifting versions didn’t quite offer hope, and all of us struggled to stay present with our words.
  — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
• The catharsis at the movie theater, however, is effectively gone.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 27 Dec. 2020
• When the tables finally turn on him due to a grave revelation that feels painfully under-explored, there’s no catharsis, just a check off a list.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Just this month Goodenough wrote a piece for Food & Wine about a painful interaction with a customer that led to a catharsis of sorts.
  — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• Listening to them call out Cody, a perpetual schemer, er dreamer, provides comedy and catharsis in equal measure.
  — Marc Hershon, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2021
• Periods of intense hardship are sometimes followed by unique moments of collective catharsis or awakening.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2021
• The network procedural demands catharsis, and tidy conclusions.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• But the catharsis of mowing through a crowd of zombies with a potted plant, a park bench, or a shopping cart will always outweigh the cons for me.
  — PCMAG, 13 Aug. 2024
• The latest entry in this subgenre is a frothy outing that sometimes falls flat, but at least The Fabulous Four doesn’t oversell its theme of friendship or its aha moments of catharsis.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024