Sentence examples for collective confession from inspiring English sources

The "Al Khet" prayer is a collective confession of sins, literally from A to Z, an alphabetical listing of everything from violence to cheating in business, from arrogance to infidelity.

1. "Shutter Island" (Martin Scorsese) Images that seem wrenched from the most visceral side of the director's mind — a sort of cinematic self-psychoanalysis that becomes a collective confession of the substantial fears and horrors of a historical moment that's not only not lost but constantly being rediscovered as style.

Images that seem wrenched from the most visceral side of the director's mind a sort of cinematic self-psychoanalysis that becomes a collective confession of the substantial fears and horrors of a historical moment that's not only not lost but constantly being rediscovered as style.

In the first case the shaman strives to drive out the impurity by collective confessions; in the second case the shaman undertakes a journey to heaven or to the depths of the sea to retrieve the sick person's soul and restore it to its body.

Given all the horrors of Mr. Milosevic's 13-year rule, a few months of public testimony and revelations would surely help begin the process of collective healing that psychoanalysis and confession are supposed to provide individuals.

Bridging the gap between a whispered confession and a collective subconscious dream, Kahlo's paintings don't just tell stories, they open wounds.

Most centrally, along with West and the Odd Future collective, Drake has made the therapeutic confession a new staple of rap.

(Confession: It can still coax a tear from our collective eye).

The Tutanjai ("Mud and Soot Retreat, or Retreat of Misery") was a ceremony of collective contrition, with the purpose of fending off disease, the punishment of sin, by prior confession; in Chinese civil law, confession resulted in an automatic reduction or suspension of sentence.

"Mother", a jailed son's nostalgia for his mother's bread and coffee, "was a poet writing a simple confession that he loves his mother, but it became a collective song.

But just as priests quickly learn that confession can feed pride, so students of transitional justice acknowledge that collective repentance, or selective justice, is neither a sovereign cure, nor even always good.