Sentences with phrase «of emotional catharsis»

Incessantly repeating the same song signals a moment of emotional catharsis.

Deaths happen, often demanding relevance or some sort of emotional catharsis despite the deceased being little more than recently introduced underdeveloped fodder, and when the characters that do matter die, the film rushes on without giving the moment a chance to breathe.

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Such a process ran lead to emotional catharsis (as in counseling)-- the pouring out of infected feelings, whereby the poison is drained from the wounds of one's spirit.

New research suggests that we seek out physical pain to provide an emotional catharsis for feelings of guilt or shame.

It's very funny, but unafraid of intense emotional catharsis.

Theoretically the climax of an action film should tie together all of its emotional and plot conflict into one big moment of physical catharsis.

Deploying a kind of gradual growth that amazes in its subtlety, Kirkley is able to transition his tale from historical account to on - the - run thrill ride before landing on emotional catharsis, without a single turn distracting from the greater story.

Take, for example, this year's How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which seemed to believe that its characters were worthy of serious romance and emotional catharsis.

Nothing can prepare you for the visceral intensity and explosive catharsis of these highly emotional interactions between some of America's most brutal criminals on one hand and softly - spoken members of the public on the other, as they all do the Work required of them to deal with their various psychological burdens and traumas.

The plot climaxes with several characters dropping Ecstasy to reach an emotional catharsis, which is one of the laziest shortcuts in the screenwriter's handbook.

By playing with the spectator's expectations of catharsis, it forces them to respond both emotionally and intellectually and to take a more ethical position in relation to the film by rationally contemplating their emotional response.

I scrawled these words in my notebook before swooning home from Carol, Todd Haynes's consummate braiding of social diagnosis and emotional catharsis.

If you're in the mood for emotional catharsis, A Monster Calls is one of the weepiest experiences I've had at the theater this year.

The information was organized according to common emerging themes that included aesthetic engagement (the intrinsic value of attending a theater event), catharsis and empathy (emotional responses and shifts in understanding), and dialog and changes in social relationships that resulted from watching the play.

And Narcisse says BioShock Infinite has one of the most important elements of a tragedy: catharsis — that moment at the end which Aristotle says evokes pity and fear and brings about an emotional transformation and release.

Taken in tandem, they bridge the emotional and cultural limits of abstraction, from the fiery Greek and Semitic roots of tragic catharsis as tapped by one of the giants of Abstract Expressionism to the cool glint of Minimalism in the hands of a contemporary Indian artist making her North American debut.

«Believing in art as a means to form connections, [Nara] leaves open a space for a variety of different readings and emotional responses, ranging from catharsis to political defiance and hope.»

However, in some cases where the emotional energy in the room results in a catharsis of sorts, this would be a disadvantage.