At night in their sanctuaries they are concocting a giant quilt filled with confessional messages of depression and resistance in the common hope for a safer existence.
* "Stardust," by the veteran choreographer David Roussève, tells the story of a troubled gay African-American teen-ager through projections of his confessional text messages.
The ham-fisted dialogue doesn't help these scenes ("I don't want to let you go" / "I'm already gone" sounds like the exchange that launched a thousand Dashboard Confessional away messages back when AIM was still a thing), and neither does the presence of Cupid, a villain I generally enjoy whose "love is death" mantra bludgeons a point that's already being hit on the nose.
Either you're engaged in private communications, similar to SMS, with people you know, spilling secrets on confessional apps, or broadcasting messages via your more public persona on Twitter, where followers may be turned off when you suddenly veer into topics you don't typically discuss.
The message board is a confessional; their interactions with women serve as a scrapbook for their evolution as warm-blooded organisms.
Brittain's is one of several memoirs inspired by the fighting in Flanders, but it made a lasting impact through the raw passion of its anti-war message and its rather modern confessional candour.
Interestingly, the editorial staff of Elle magazine took a different message from the author's confessional: "Tracy Clark-Flory spent her twenties having lots of good sex, but faked her way through nearly every climax.
The question came by way of an e-mail message to Oprah, the queen of confessional television, and Gov. George W. Bush took it head on: What is the public's biggest misconception of him?
She gave Mr. Weiner a warning before she issued a statement to The Daily News when the underwear photo became public, and she heard from him the day of his confessional news conference: He sent her a text message apologizing moments before he walked onstage.
In 2006, the band, which had lingered in the shadow of similar but more popular acts like Korn and the Deftones, finally moved beyond cult status with the breakthrough single "Hate Me," a confessional song that opens with a voice mail message from Mr. Furstenfeld's mother, checking in to make sure he has taken his medication.
