But, according to Yang, it was not until the killings of unarmed protesters near Tiananmen Square, in 1989, that he was cleansed "of all the lies I had accepted over the previous decades".
15 After drawing blood, the right femurs of all experimental rats were dissected out, cleansed of all soft tissue, washed with distilled water, and allowed to dry at room temperature for 24 hours.
It has a cooling gel-like texture and is meant to be applied to a cleansed face before bed.
We can become modern monks, teetotal, gluten-free, cleansed of all vices, doing as the doctor says, shutting our ears to all the other medics who say something different – some in the pay of the companies that want us to swallow their products, preferably for a decade or several – or we can accept that risk is part of grown-up life and trust our gut instinct.
Officials openly espoused President Franjo Tudjman's notion that, in ethnic terms, "once cleansed" should mean "always cleansed".
Today that document, framed in silver, is piled among yellowing college textbooks and other outgrown possessions in a storage room in the basement, a few feet from the washing machine; loads of our dirty laundry rinsing and spinning and emerging cleansed, year after year, all under the benevolent gaze of Pope John Paul II.
The colours are almost cleansed of colour, scrubbed raw of all that colour offers by way of vibrancy and human engagement, until we are left with nothing but a kind of numbing tonal dullness of greys, off-whites, browns, all too pallid and unemphatic to stir the blood.
I wasn't surprised by this because London is an aspirational city, fast becoming a socially cleansed, semi-toxic wasteland of billionaire frittering, all balanced on a bubble of misery and pyrrhic debt.
All areas on the cheeks to be treated were first cleansed with alcohol and then injected with anesthetic (1% lidocaine epinephrine administered with a 30-gauge needle).
He is joined in this category by Sarah Kane, who also helped out in a similar situation by baring all as one of the siblings beleaguered in a dystopian psychiatric institution in her 1998 play Cleansed.
