"Primetime Thursday" and its sister television programs form a public confessional, with the interviewer in the role of the minister and the audience cast as the congregation.
Eventually in Mecca and elsewhere a few individuals came to envision the possibility of effecting supra-tribal association through a leadership role common to the confessional religions, that is, prophethood or messengership.
These interventions should include social institutions like nongovernmental organizations, HIV-infected persons associations and confessional institutions which play an important role in facilitating treatment, and promoting adherence to ART.
He cast himself in the role of lover, passionate and confessional — "Dearest Lady," he called her, whereas he called everyone else "Sir" or "Madam" — and she had to toy with that role, to see how it took.
In this constellation, religious values – albeit already in their plurality of different confessional and religious beliefs and traditions – played a crucial role as a 'cultural capital' to establish stabile mutual expectations.
Watching a singer like Jeanne MacDonald, who brings an emotional balance; a subtle, good-humored sexiness; and an originality to everything she sings, makes you realize the crucial role good instincts play in the self-consciously confessional world of cabaret.
Dunham's role model, after all, was the hard working, highly accessible, confessional-but-only-to-a-point, consummate grownup Nora Ephron.
Even so, Hammer noted that Shah's books have remained in public demand, and that he has played "a significant role in representing the essence of Sufism as a non-confessional, individualistic and life-affirming distillation of spiritual wisdom".
Whereas earlier albums were more confessional in their subject matter, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, on which she satirized the role of the 1970s housewife, showed Mitchell's movement toward social observation.
This campaign included a particularly confessional interview in the News of the World in which Ferdinand had publicly committed himself to the role of faithful family man.
