Sentence examples for instead of confessing from inspiring English sources

That presently, instead of confessing a sudden kindling of eternal love, he's lecturing me, with pedantic relish, on how the Paxton Boys exterminated many of the innocent remnants of the Susquehannock near where we're standing.

Instead of confessing your undying love and scaring him off, just casually say that "it's lady's choice" and you choose him.

Or did he borrow Tolstoy's words as a way of "confessing," instead, to the chasm that both he and Ferrante have jointly explored so brilliantly in their fiction — the one that can exist only between husband and wife?

He should be talking to you instead of me," confessed Biden, who nonetheless didn't give Chu a chance to say a word after his fulsome introduction of the vice president.

Instead of laughing, he confessed that he'd broken his own ankle jumping into a gravel pit last year.

Back at the university, Roar Omega Roar offers to reinstate Sulley, but he refuses, instead confessing to Hardscrabble that he cheated, just as she is alerted of Mike's break-in.

Instead, you confess your own shortcomings in the realm of numbers, and you advise young scientists who share your weakness to collaborate with mathematicians.

Instead I confessed my baffling hostility toward his diet to my female friends.

Instead, he confessed to being frustrated at his charges' failure to take a grip on proceedings.

A large majority of the insider trading defendants have confessed instead of fighting the charges.

One looked back to ask, "Are you all right?" I made a good decision to confess instead of trying to save face, for in this manner, I met Ole Tom and Ole Gus, as they invariably referred to each other.