Historical amnesia is certainly liberating – so liberating that America is once again diving into free fall, unmoored by any critical or intellectual insight into its own myths, or even into the histories of the debates that we think define our moment.
As a self-taught musician, Johnson found a kindred spirit in Martin Taylor, another self-taught guitar virtuoso; and it certainly liberated his playing.
And though Ginsberg's poetry hadn't freed the world yet — or freed it just a little bit — it had certainly liberated Ginsberg.
In a 2009 interview for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hunt discussed working as an independent artist, stating "Creatively it is certainly liberating, but the rest of it is really not that fun.
Even before that, the boy wheeling in the dust certainly looked liberated, enjoying the soccer field, albeit for an unintended purpose.
"To make her own decisions and to take responsibility for her own choices and to put less of the blame on me, saying, 'It's your fault".' The result certainly looked liberating in London, and what was also affirming about the big-surprise ending was that it made you suddenly feel better about all those speeches that children who want to be champions hear on the fields and courts of the world.
"Spending Christmas alone can certainly be liberating.
Certainly, the same liberating currents of the times expanded women's prospects, propelling many more women into higher education and into a wider range of careers and a higher spectrum of achievement.
Overall, "Broken" was a gripping and competently plotted hour -- none of the scenes felt extraneous and although there was undoubtedly a lot of plot and set-up to get through in 42 minutes, the narrative certainly felt more liberated without the curse hanging over everyone's heads.
Another controversial choice would be Julie Burchill, who was certainly empowered and definitely liberated (leaving her second husband with nothing but a gramme of coke and a bust of Lenin) who once claimed that the "most fun part of being a feminist is about frightening men".
