Sentence examples for a purging of from inspiring English sources

A publicist calls it his detox film (Korine is a former heroin user), a purging of all those nasty toxins.

The album is, in part, "a purging of all the things that have gone on," she said.

Chun is undertaking a "purification", of the country, which means a purging of political critics and strict control of the news media and publishing houses.

Yet, transposed to the new century, the episode becomes less an act of revolution than a purging of personal impotence and its attendant anger.

Do the tears, sex and mild violence that erupt at the movie's low-key climax represent a form of catharsis, a purging of the rage, grief and terror that have been repressed and numbed by unthinking adherence to routine?

They pressed for a drastic reform of the church hierarchy and church courts, a purging of residual Catholic elements in the prayer book and ritual, and a vigorous searching out and persecution of recusants.

That year, Stalin began a purge of intellectuals.

Hardliners want a purge of "counter-revolutionary" opportunists.

"He began a purge of people like me," Laidig said.

Turkey says the invasion forestalled a purge of Turkish Cypriots.

We have to have a purge of the politicians".