Sentence examples for confessional thing from inspiring English sources

So a lot of the book was based on my own experience, though it wasn't all a confessional thing – I didn't actually kill anyone when I was at school.

"If I had just met her at dinner, I couldn't possibly have asked her the things I asked her: 'How did you feel when you found out he was sleeping with another woman?' You think, 'OK, I have my pad, this is what we're here for.' It was a strangely confessional thing," he said.

Interviewers thought that being an 'anonymous interviewer' on a phone allowed people to more openly discuss their problems "A bit like the priest confessional thing [Int5]".

A lot of the time people want to do confessional things on the show, like one guy who wanted to tell his wife that he secretly preferred having sex with men who were dressed like women.

And getting people to improve their manners is an uphill battle in a culture like ours which is largely public and confessional (two things that are considered rude in other countries, like France and Japan), and where public humiliation has become something of a spectator sport.

After the early, exciting expository years of the Internet – the Age of Jennicam where the web was supposed to act as confessional and stage – things changed swiftly.

Lisa's confessional on the matter summed things up hilariously.

When I finally, covertly, admitted on Facebook that he had passed away several weeks after the event one of the only things, as a confessional writer, that I have been mainly private about the vultures swooped and settled, cawing with mock sympathy and very open arms.

When I finally, covertly, admitted on Facebook that he had passed away several weeks after the event – one of the only things, as a confessional writer, that I have been mainly private about – the vultures swooped and settled, cawing with mock sympathy and very open arms.

Since everyone's been influenced by their family (like it or not), most confessional poets have probably taken from things related to their family and friends, like the actual people or certain events, along with the general family history.

And the thing ends with a hokey confessional letter from Hannah to her therapist.