Sentence examples for first confessional from inspiring English sources

It's almost tempting to think of him as the first Confessional Poet.

When one of the first confessional poets, Robert Lowell, wants to describe the psychological state of his mother's tense, aristocratic home, he claims her claw-foot furniture has "an on tiptoe air," in the process making the cool Waspy atmosphere into a kind of character.

In that highly unlikely event, the report would be the second confessional exercise of the race.

At first Dashboard Confessional was Mr. Carrabba alone, but he has lately expanded it to a four-piece band.

His next novel, Second Skin (1964), is the first-person confessional of a retired naval officer.

The movie is filmed like a third-person confessional about the lives of others.

And it strays further than usual from a singer-songwriter mode, all but disowning the first-person confessional.

From its opening pages, Elissa Wald's "Secret Lives of Married Women" signals its debt to Cain, from the first-person confessional voice to the heroine's fear of sounding like a "tabloid wife".

The first-person confessional approach is an easy way for writers to add drama and voice to the most improbable subjects, while increasing their odds of getting booked on talk shows that shun the average novelist.

The praise and critique often focus on what appears to be the show's primary contribution to the world: the popularization of first-person confessional reality TV and the now-established millennial culture of self-discovery and self-disclosure.

Truffaut taught himself, with great effort and great difficulty, to film with a second voice, to become exactly the kind of director that he admired and that Hitchcock exemplified: he placed his first-person confessional voice, and even his actual speaking voice, into conflict with the virtual voice of subtext and symbol.