Sentence examples for confess the idea from inspiring English sources

I must confess the idea was wickedly tempting, for a second or two; after all, did he not champion the theatre, the most redundant of the major arts?

I could see he was embarrassed to admit it, but he had to confess that the idea of a Dalit on his street made him uncomfortable.

Leaving aside the question of from whence these so-called "good citizens" will be sourced, how they will be trained to deal with complex child-neglect cases, and what they would be paid (workfare, jobcentre, sod all, probs), I confess that the idea of Ofsted having its own secret breakfast police in the form of a milk-monitoring Stasi snooper squad does not fill me with reassurance.

As he noted, "I must confess that the idea of a free-swimming hemisphere or a half gastrula open lengthwise seemed rather extraordinary.

I'm embarrassed to confess that the idea of transferring alkaloids to one's spouse to stop the aforementioned spouse from wandering off into other receptive arms sounded attractive at first.

Phoebe confessed that the idea of buying toys with her windfall did occur to her.

Grant reviewers may confess the same of application abstracts that are filled with wonderful ideas but lack practical, nuts-and-bolts details.

I have to confess, I got the idea of practicing gratitude from self-help author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

She is sagacious about his relations with colonialism, noting that he confessed to liking the idea that the Africans were innocent and lazy, while avoiding a colonial lifestyle.

Until he confessed, the RCMP (and his lawyer, Bob Shantz), had no idea he'd murdered people.

Which, I must confess, is the general idea here.