Sentence examples for confessional modes from inspiring English sources

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 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?

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

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

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

And when she resurfaces, she rejects the confessional mode in favor of redemptive pleasure and the drive to share it.

Even though its confessional mode often went against the Victorian grain, its underlying seriousness was quintessentially Victorian.

"My desire to cook has always depended on my mood," Hesser tells us, delving into culinary confessional mode.

Some critics deplored the "confessional" mode, saying it gave license to excessive self-exposure and risked sentimentality.