cathartic

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• A circumambulation is a ritual which can be performed in different contexts: apotropaic, cathartic, and as rite of aggregation.
• Over the weekend, the student met with Norwegian Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg and other survivors - an experience she described as cathartic. Reuters: Press Release
• Duma Key is not just a novel for the fans, but a cathartic response from King over his near-death accident in 1999; no doubt he relived his agonizing recovery while writing about Freemantle, and yet it is because of this firsthand experience, that Duma Key feels much more personal and empathetic. 2010 February 15 « The BookBanter Blog
• All people, including Chinese people, crave the cathartic release that laughter provides.
• And so if you don't beat the military uniform hard enough, we like to drop the roll, like, as soon as we put the fiber, the combat paper project through its workshops seeks to allow the veteran to kind of deconstruct their uniform and deconstruct their experiences in a very comfortable environment and create cathartic works of art. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009
• These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose. 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
• Was making it a cathartic experience, given his emotional situation at home? Times, Sunday Times
• There are several cathartic therapies that involve primal screaming, rebirthing, or reparenting.
• Wouldn't it be wonderfully cathartic if all it took to tame that doe-eyed, imbecilic half-man -- not Charlie Sheen, we're talking about the child character Jake -- was someone who took the time to sit down with him and treat him like a German Shepard about to be euthanized? Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
• The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.