All art is rooted, to some degree, in performance, and obfuscation can be just as beautiful and poignant as confession.
His confession on beautiful slowie Bones of Birds that "Time is my friend … well it ain't, it runs out" really is quite touching.
Later, when Ms. Michelson recounts telling her dancers to "make it very beautiful," it's like a confession.
"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" was a beautiful stunt, a defiance of actual gravity that needed, to hold it down, all the trinkets of realism, of period detail and solemn aphorism that Greer could provide.
While Bono sings grand, important-sounding choruses about nameless streets and beautiful days, Mr. Bon Jovi's solemn confessions are more along the lines of "Your love is like bad medicine".
Varadarajan, the Wire editor, responding to the nationalist sentiment amid the Johar controversy, wrote a "confession" about his relations with Pakistanis, a beautiful ode to some of his friendships with his neighboring country.
Were it not a very daring thing to say, I would like to add that to a true lover, the halting confession of his beloved is more dear than the most beautiful poem.
Simon Vozick-Levinson of Rolling Stone said, "After a while, his confessions start to sound like sneaky boasts about all the beautiful hearts he's broken.
Madeleine Davies, who called the choice "piss-poor", was shocked to the core by Levine's confession that he only does yoga "because the classes are always packed with beautiful women", claiming: "I would rather have sex with Norm from Cheers".
"I still don't think there is anything as glorious and beautiful as an old blues or country song," Ms. Block writes in the liner notes to "Confessions".
