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And she understood this, too, how important it was for her to get her story out, for her to tell her story, for her own well-being, for her to really kind of cathartically go through the story, to tell someone about it.

CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007 2007

O'Toole practically bursts off the screen, loudly agonizing about his split with Becket, venomously lashing out at his shrewish wife and mother, and cathartically baring his broken heart at a momentous encounter on the beach.

John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011

O'Toole practically bursts off the screen, loudly agonizing about his split with Becket, venomously lashing out at his shrewish wife and mother, and cathartically baring his broken heart at a momentous encounter on the beach.

John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011

Rolling Thunder was written by Paul Schrader and – like Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza, written by Schrader and his brother Leonard – it signposts themes and imagery that would obsess Schrader in his own movies: Vietnam veterans, samurai ethics, and orgasmic explosions of cathartically violent revenge.

Rolling Thunder: home at last 2012

Mr. Everett's resistance to classification is most pronounced in his brilliant and often cathartically refreshing treatment of race and identity.

A Protean Chronicler of Racial Puzzles Sam Sacks 2011

O'Toole practically bursts off the screen, loudly agonizing about his split with Becket, venomously lashing out at his shrewish wife and mother, and cathartically baring his broken heart at a momentous encounter on the beach.

John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011

His beleaguered last two weeks on the job represented some of the most exhilarating TV of the year, as he unabashedly and cathartically did whatever the hell he wanted, keeping us all on our toes — as the best TV does.

TVGuide.com's Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win? 2010

Decided my concentration would be cathartically aided by slamming the office door closed to block out the excited primate noises coming from the Neighbiurhood Team Office, all dressed in civvies & off for an Away/Teambuilding day somewhere.

Celebrating Christmas may provoke minority groups. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

In other words, the “family sculpting,” the name psychologists have given to this form of role play, is not a way for members to wallow in past injuries—or cathartically relieve them—but to begin to grasp some of the automatic impulses that shape their behavior.

THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

She writes knowingly -- and cathartically -- about death and loss; the imprint it leaves, the shadow it casts, the binding universality of it all.

Rosanne Cash pens a rich memoir about her personal and musical journey 2010