It did not make him feel good to do it, but there was a kind of catharticeffect.
2
The trouble of earlier in the week seemed to work wonders and clearly had a catharticeffect in concentrating minds and spirit.
3
Once Marc discovers the catharticeffect of saying sorry to the chef's widow and child, he becomes addicted to the sorry business.
4
He brilliantly summons up the suffocating drabness of postwar English suburbia and the catharticeffect of hearing raw blues and rock'n'roll on imported albums.
5
The catharticeffects of the McCartney murder have, one hopes, pulled the blinkers from all our eyes.