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

    Sufficient Unto This Day | Her Bad Mother 2009

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

    Reader Interviews: Daphne Dalle on "Wicked" by Jill Barnett Nalini Singh 2008

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

    Sufficient Unto This Day 2009

  • 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 2009

  • 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 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • 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 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2008

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

    A Faithless Sister: Blood Fetters part Three Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2008

  • 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.

    The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes Adam Whitehead 2008

  • 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" 2007

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

    Loss of Someone I Loved barbylon 2007

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