carthartic

Plus, I love books that rip you apart emotionally - they're so .... carthartic!

Reader Interviews: Daphne Dalle on "Wicked" by Jill Barnett

Apologies, Indepatriot, it's a little carthartic, but I don't think the recent brusing from the "Assasinate" comment will heal for a while.

Newsweek: Obama's Appalachia Problem Is Real

I DO believe that writing is helpful, even carthartic, when dealing with stress and the unknown.

Sufficient Unto This Day

Artistically I am glad - it's been a still birthed poem for a long time and as a poet, carthartic to release and finish.

Archive 2008-06-01

The moment when Anne, who was going the same way, breaks free and starts making her own decisions rather than blindly following some ancient prophecy, is extremely carthartic for that reason.

Archive 2008-08-01

I'm imagining it will probably consist of 30 minutes of self-aware pseudo-hipster speak, followed by a carthartic torture scene of any character remotely resembling a cartoon "redneck", eh?

Quentin Tarantino and the "Southern"

What is it that is so cleansing, so carthartic, about tears?

Loss of Someone I Loved

So with those which experience teaches us produce a carthartic, emetic, narcotic, sedative, irritant, or vermifuge action on the human system.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

I administered eye water to all, two of the women I gave a carthartic, one whose Spirets were very low and much hipedz I gave 30 drops of Lodomem, and to the others I had their backs hips legs thighs

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

A carthartic blockbuster of epic proportions to end a week of Airplane-esque turbulence, or a squib damper than SpongeBobs SquarePants' square pants?

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