Sentence examples for rather than confessional from inspiring English sources

From the beginning, Bishop's work was descriptive rather than assertive, conversational rather than rhetorical and discreet rather than confessional.

Sometimes called the "deep image" poets, Bly and his friends sought spiritual intensity and transcendence of the self rather than confessional immediacy.

Zofia Burr has countered Angelou's critics by condemning them for not taking into account Angelou's larger purposes in her writing: "to be representative rather than individual, authoritative rather than confessional".

Holter sees herself as a storyteller rather than a confessional songwriter.

The women and the venues of his life left traces in his imagination, and certain characters speak his mind more than others, but his novels took their inspiration from a sociological topic rather than a confessional or self-exploratory impulse.

Gone, too, were the acoustic songs sung with just a guitar, piano or dulcimer backing, replaced by an electric, jazz-inflected, intricately arranged sound, courtesy of Tom Scott's LA Express, that weaved around lyrics that were acutely observational or dazzlingly impressionistic, rather than soul-baringly confessional.

His music is a hybrid of acoustic folk, hip-hop beat and rapper-style lyrics, though his words are chatty and confessional rather than combative and sexist.

She makes that distinction in an essay called The Joni Mitchell Problem, which laments the way the singer-songwriter has been misunderstood as "confessional" rather than carefully crafted, and helps to explain Daum's own strategy of highly selective revelation.

Reuters said that the British version of the show would concentrate on celebrities rather than on tell-all confessionals from ordinary people.

As transitions appeared to be regressing, people increasingly chose to identify themselves along tribal or confessional lines, rather than political ones.

Shock-released on iTunes last week (all iTunes users got one, whether they wanted it or not), Songs of Innocence is being billed as U2's most personal album ever, stuffed with confessional biography rather than flag-waving, or attempts to toy with the stadium form, as U2 did in their Zooropa years.