Sentence examples for confessional meetings from inspiring English sources

Such confessional meetings are, like the psychiatrist's couch, popular territory in novels and films, offering a pretext for characters to bare all.

Those visitors pay about $100 a night to stay in a spotless, spartan room, worship in as many as five services each day, dine on healthy meals and maintain long periods of ruminative quiet, sometimes broken by confessional meetings with a monk.

So, in addition to following a restricted diet, adherents are encouraged to attended weekly confessional meetings.

As Panahi's life loosely follows Hikmet's, so Taxi loosely follows the panoramic project of Human Landscapes, although Hikmet's plurality of railway interaction is replaced in Taxi by the confessional meetings of passenger and a single, familiar driver: Panahi playing himself.

But, a bar is a church, a confessional, a communal meeting place where people who might have never met each other, or who may never see each other again, have a chance meeting and who knows what could happen.

Carlos is reviewing his past behavior in clammy preparation not for the confessional but for a Communist Party meeting at which his comrades will rule on "whether he was or was not an exemplary worker".

The meetings, referred to here as "confessionals," are intended to give Mr. Chirac a chance to hear everyone's positions and draw up a blueprint for compromise, to be debated on Saturday.

The meetings quickly became intimate; they took on an air of a confessional.

His confessional moment came at a session of Gamblers Anonymous, one of a dozen such meetings held in and around New York City on Wednesday night alone.

When the team arrived in Boulder at the beginning of September they held a meeting to crowdsource ideas - now they have canvassed more opinions setting up a "confessional camera" in the city.

One is the Indonesian Lounge, with banquettes "that were once white," where envoys plead their cases with other diplomats before meetings of the budget committee, an atmosphere Mr. Dejammet finds too much like multiple church confessionals.