For me, not having one was strangely liberating and concentrating: there was no way I could postpone the moment.

It felt strangely liberating to say that aloud, when she had tried so hard to repress her lust for him.

It felt strangely liberating to voice aloud the thought he'd tried so hard to avoid for the past two days.

For someone trained and accustomed to saving others, it was strangely liberating to feel a great need for people.

The question is strangely liberating, implying as it does action, energy, choice.

The results often feel strangely liberating, almost in spite of themselves.

It was strangely liberating to commit that act.

It was strangely liberating to see the spot again, because, as I said before, the place felt so peaceful now.

"It's strangely liberating to have those constraints on you," says Logan.

The boy was surprised to find himself laughing as well, finding the roughhouse play strangely liberating, and he laughed even louder.