On her own she has headed toward intimate, confessional folk, a journey completed on her most recent album, "Comfort of Strangers" (Astralwerks).
Professor Mabie, pondering his inability to converse freely with his two daughters, admits that his trouble is that "their tastes ran toward the confessional, the conversation, the intensely depressing nerve-racking focus on feelings".
The late '60s and '70s were a period of great artistic and personal ferment for Gray, as he struggled through a nervous breakdown and the dissolution of his relationship with LeCompte and toward the confessional monologue for which he would later become famous.
In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.
So the old question "What's the recipe for?" gives way to "What's the cookbook for?," which turns it, like everything else these days, toward the memoir, the confessional, the recipe as self-revelation.
The writer cites the investigation of President Clinton's sex life and the proliferation of confessional literature as examples of the growing trend toward the erasure of the line between private life and public exposure.
Glenn Watkins, a scholar not inclined toward melodrama, accepts that the madrigals are confessional in nature.
"We have no signs, no indications whatsoever, that in the next 10 years Lebanon will be headed toward a secular system or a less confessional system".
Through OK Computers influence, the dominant style of UK guitar pop shifted toward an approximation of "Radiohead's paranoid but confessional, slurry but catchy approach".
Slowing down toward the end of the song, Mr. Calderon grew mock confessional.
