But this is not the Broadway theater I knew and loved, whose plays purged us with their Aristotelian catharses. ❋ Melanie Chartoff (2011)
Narrative shows both how a tendency to altruistic punishment can bring you closer to those equilibria and how they can be broken, either to be repaired (happy endings, or some tragic catharses) or not (as in some other kinds of tragedy). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Truly experimental, avant-garde music is frequently heavily laden with emotional catharses, existential questing, or convoluted obscurity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Today's catharses aren't spiritual; they are commercial. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Equating the respective emotional catharses of love and death (all of them, to varying degrees) ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2006)
My problem with the movie was in the extraordinary convergence of catharses going on. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With only 23,000 other columnists trying to pitch their own catharses, I figured there was room for another 700 – 800 words a week, especially since newspapers appeared to be desperate for features. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Republicans 'catharses were based not upon principle but upon their political survival. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Favreau trusts that we've either seen enough movies or actually had lives so that we don't need everything laid out for us in big emotional scenes with the actors yelling and snuffling their way to fake catharses. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Sternheimer, the sociologist, says people's attraction to wicked characters dates from ancient Greece and the catharses audiences experienced while watching morality tales on stage. ❋ Siraj Mohammed (2010)
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost and the heroin catharses of Scraps at Midnight anyway. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is no stretch: Artists are sympathetic to Sam Adams because he, in his transgressions, enacted literally the boiling catharses that artists commit symbolically in their work. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not only did the episode show the catharses of both Minori and Ami, it also featured Taiga's subconscious confession to Ryuuji and subsequently Ryuuji's realization that Taiga liked him a lot and was hurting herself immensely because of her desire to pair Minori and Ryuuji up. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Describing a life through empty words and old photos is not really effective, but the family's own catharses of their immense love and anguish pulls at your very own innards. ❋ Unknown (2009)
MOST HEART-TUGGING: YO LA TENGO Even if you'd never heard of the been-around-forever New Jersey-based indie rockers, their set's juxtapostion of nostalgic beach-mist melodies and chaotic guitar catharses would have broken down your defenses like the most merciless good cop / bad cop team, leaving you an emotional mess, begging to tell them your deepest secrets. ❋ Matt Kiser (2008)
Is the need to be in a sea of flesh anywhere on this planet telling more of the human condition, its spirit or lack there of, or is it a catharses, where at least for some it’s a once in a lifetime connection which says what words can’t? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps the girls running laps with their Barbies at synagogue, exercising addictively, fasting, were pointing out the hypocrisies of religious life—that our penance doesn’t really change us, that our “fasts” are feel-good catharses that fail to generalize into our real lives, that fasts only set up binges, penitence only sets up the next reactive round of guilty indulgences. ❋ Yona Zeldis McDonough (1999)
Catharseal [elements] are found in [Hamlet].
Catharseal circle is required for a revenge [tragedy]. ❋ Midrushgod (2019)
