Sentence examples for confessional that from inspiring English sources

(da Fonseca-Wollheim) Jerusalem Quartet (Friday and Sunday) For Shostakovich the string quartet was a confessional that allowed him to express himself uncensored.

David flashed me an unfamiliar look and touched my arm and said, "I need to tell you something," and finally, in the strange confessional that is the hold of a boat, he told me a little of his past.

If accused of being a skank, one must be informed of the accusation, be able to obtain witnesses in his or her favor and be allowed to defend the alleged skankiness during a weepy confessional that reveals that the accusers, are, in fact, the true skanks.

The installation is comprised of the "Truth Booth," an inflatable, portable confessional that has traveled from Ireland to Afghanistan to Art Basel, and now lands in Brooklyn.

It's melancholy and enveloping, and with Earl handling most of the production, it's a grimy confessional that lilts more like The Infamous than traditional West Coast bounce.

That trajectory flipped in 2011, in a New York Times Magazine confessional that detailed how his mother sent him to California from the Philippines with a fake green card, how he spent his entire career documenting the life of others to avoid talking about his own, and how he avoided the words "I," "me," and "my" in his stories as much as possible.

He writes in plain-spoken confessional language that is rooted in daily life but that can coalesce at any moment to frame sudden glimpses of the infinite.

Are there any confessional novels that you used as inspiration, or that you particularly admire?

But the confessional culture that has flourished in the past several years seems to have dispensed with that kind of discretion; in contemporary politics, the display of physical frailty is often employed as a way to gain sympathy.

The exception would be that a bishop could not break the seal of the confessional, because that would be a violation of canon law itself, Father Green said.

Garnet decided that Tesimond's account had been given under the seal of the confessional, and that canon law therefore forbade him to repeat what he had heard.