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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Barney was an advanced thinker, a believer in catharsis .
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Music is a means of catharsis for them and they say they like to do things in extreme.
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Provide for catharsis - release of interdepartmental or interpersonal conflicts of long standing.
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The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late neoclassicism.
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The sociologist Scheff is probably the social scientist who has attempted the most thoroughgoing analysis of catharsis in social life.
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This is the Neds venting their frustrations but finding order through catharsis - a chaotic way of feeling better.
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This revolt is a kind of catharsis .
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What we witness is not an aesthetic spectacle bringing with it the catharsis which the ritual of the theater can produce.