That one avenger should kill so many people, themselves armed, in such a short space of time would, of course, have been impossible in the days of six-shooter pistols and awkwardly loaded rifles, but set a boy down in a school with a modern assault gun or two and it becomes much more possible, if a boy's thoughts of catharsis should run in that direction.
The second is the catharsis unleashed in a series of bloody events, culminating in Django's massacre of the owner's entire household and the kneecapping of a loyal black servant – an "Uncle Tom" – whom we have been invited especially to dislike.
Business funds election campaigns, and expects to be rewarded later.Mr Muzaffar hopes that Mr Muhammad's case will lead to some sort of "catharsis".
Climategate had no such catharsis, because it revealed no sin so heinous.Climategate did not materially effect the outcome of Copenhagen.
Charles Dundee, a white boat-builder, calls it "a collective catharsis of disgust".
Sometimes, these sessions led to emotional catharsis; sometimes to bitterness and divorce.Esalen's other big export was body work, which at Esalen blurred the boundaries between medicine and spirituality.
For many, though, catharsis will come only through another capture: the arrest and courtroom humiliation of the erstwhile Wall Street titans the public holds responsible for the mess.In today's political climate, the government will feel immense pressure to put a few moneymen in the dock.
He recounts how the ravages of war in Congo and Bosnia finally wore him out, and the admission brings with it a certain catharsis for the viewer.Yet what follows sits uneasily with the panoramas of genocide that have just been shown.
There are no revelations, no scenes of catharsis between Jayojit and his father, a retired admiral not brimming with warmth.
For the survivors of the nightmare their party imposed on Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 it should be a moment of catharsis.
(A deeper interpretation might be that personal contact and bogus emotional catharsis really are important elements of how power is deployed and negotiated in Hollywood, leading film stars, who are mostly pretty canny, to misinterpret how things work elsewhere).
