Sentence examples for confessional overtones from inspiring English sources

The tryst, David's receipt of a rosary as payment, and the savage beating that ensues all reverberate with dark, confessional overtones once the reader knows that Roth seduced his own cousin.

Debelle had that break, but her album is more of an acquired taste – confessional, with folk and jazzy overtones.

Many if not most prison memoirs qualify as confessionals, extended mea culpas, often with strong religious overtones and purplish prose.

Professor Craig Wright: Different overtones.

My work is a confessional".

Why so confessional?

Process art had political overtones.

* 9 CONFESSIONAL, by Jack Higgins.

* 9* CONFESSIONAL, by Jack Higgins.

Has druidic overtones.

But they're not confessional".