Sentence examples for confessional mode from inspiring English sources

He is also in public confessional mode.

He began his triumphant last round in confessional mode.

At what point does the confessional mode test the limits of empathy?

It was a dark December day, and George was in confessional mode.

But in his confessional mode, Hawthorne needed a modicum of disguise.

After circling each other, both dive into the confessional mode they affect to disdain.

He avoids overtly confessional modes, and is apprehensive about those kinds of narratives being attributed to his work; I get the sense that even the suggestion of it — that these songs might directly address scenes from his own interior life — makes him uneasy.

He was taking what he saw in the performance-art world, which was a sort of self-confessional mode, and making it work with dance".

In the well-acted "Frost / Nixon," a nice journalistic coup — David Frost's pushing Richard Nixon into semi-confessional mode, in 1977 — has been elevated to a great transformative moment in history, which, alas, it was not.

"My jacket around your shoulders, the falling leaves, the wet grass on our backs as the Autumn breeze drifts through the trees," may not sound all that machismo-like, but Springsteen delivers it in honest, confessional Boss-mode, placing it into that extremely believable "I'm on Fire" territory where he can still kick your ass while singing triplets.

His confessional singer-songwriter mode became a key part of his multifaceted persona.