The phrase "honest confession" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a sincere, truthful admission of wrongdoing or guilt. Example: The defendant's honest confession during the trial played a crucial role in the jury's decision to convict him.
Which brings me to the honest confession of why I don't use a computer.
It is an admirably honest confession, but not one that the best US journalists covering their country's last big war would have made.
But I think there is in that passage of Go Set a Watchman some pretty honest confession of what it was to grow up a whip-smart, outspoken, thinking white woman in the south.
A kind of naive and painfully honest confession of the failure of a man and the total failure of an organisation, a meticulous description of one of the worst betrayals in the history of humanity.
Praise of Milton or Shakespeare tends to begin from a platform of veneration and sage familiarity; but Keats's praise is an honest confession that Chapman's Homer opens out a whole new world.
Hopwood has made a full and honest confession of all his crimes and can point to two years of service in the Navy, his past as a basketball star in high school, and a seemingly earnest repentance and desire to change.
At best, Obaro Ejimiwe's dream-like delivery is magnetic, intimate; pulling you under the covers with him for honest confessions.
By 1861 Benjamin had sent at least 100 letters to his main financier, a New York banker named Peter Hargous, with honest confessions like "The prospects are gloomy" and "Treachery was at work against us".
It was an odd, yet effective juxtaposition; a global superstar who could effortlessly shuffle between slick, bombastic R&B and awkwardly honest confessions of a tumultuous career.
His honest confessions are not only refreshing, but they are proof that he has no clear picture of the challenges facing the average American.
Filmmaker Sarah Koenigsberg of Tensegrity Productions, captured the history of these students through honest confessions about their childhood experiences with drugs, death, abandonment, depression and anger.
