These are not memoirs, in the confessional sense, Mr Hemon says.
If he is a self-revealing writer, it is not in the usual, confessional sense, but rather because he seems so strongly present in his books, with a personality that is both the source and aftereffect of the prose.
"Norbit" was widely reviled for its caricatures; little attention was paid to Murphy's own self-caricature, to his own confessional sense of weakness and of evil, of oblivious self-interest and awkward sentiment, of the desire and capacity for utter otherness.
Further on, perhaps more tellingly, he writes: "In their later correspondence there is very often a confessional tone, a sense that Roald is talking to himself.
The bars sometimes denote a prison, sometimes a church confessional; often the sense of constraint that fetters the lead characters, a priest and a nun; and always the eye to detail that makes this production, directed by Scott Alan Evans, so compelling.
Rather than making a specific reference to her heritage, Ms. Emin's work is introspective and at times confessional, concerned with a sense of self.
Stewart Lee's success with Jerry Springer The Opera has introduced a new audience to his sharp stand-up, while Richard Herring has become a fine confessional comic, with a sense of his own absurdity.
Rather our female friendships in the 21st century are filled with expectations, support, confessionals and the pervasive sense that "we're all in it together," as if we are twins by virtue of our gender, the female condition, and the very air we breathe.
Thorgy Thor, who I agreed with maybe once in season eight, speaks sense in her confessional: "Wake up, bitch!
The film stands, in a sense, as a confessional — of a student, of a genius, of an artist, of a generation that does not always know what it wants, but wants it very badly.
Wright's spiritual poetry also counts as confessional poetry, in all three senses of that much-abused term: it describes discreditable details in his own life, pursues his tormented relations to parents and family and creates an analogue for the Catholic confessional.
