These last poems are plangent, vulnerable, confessional, emerging like clear notes from the ruins.
For all their influences good, deeply and sincerely assimilated ones (they offer neither pastiche nor parody, and there's no anxiety to the influence)—their music, and their interaction, is deeply personal; Lewis's solos, digging from melody to wail, moving from a breathy, atonal whisper to a deep, swinging groove, have a vulnerable, confessional air.
The barriers are always there, but then they break down in a rush of vulnerable, even confessional, emotion.
Lane manages to sound like both Lykke Li and Loretta Lynn, mixing saloon-ready arrangements with vulnerable and confessional lyrics.
Reading her work demands a constant choice between two, equally compelling portraits of the author: a Didion who is raw, vulnerable and confessional and a Didion who is calculating, theatrical and — to use a phrase she once applied to her prose — "totally in control".
With her girlish laugh and gushes of Southern charm, Ms. Rice can be utterly captivating -- without ever appearing confessional or vulnerable -- a quality that can mask her spine of steel.
It's less confessional, less bleakly vulnerable than he has been on past albums — the difference, perhaps, between writing in isolation and male bonding with the band.
Many media outlets, including the Milwaukee Journal and Billboard magazine, called them "confessional ballads", with an emotionally vulnerable narrator who wants true love but finds it unattainable.
Feeling that the album needed something more autobiographical and confessional and a song which would show her vulnerable side, Gaga worked with Rubin who let her do the song in the way she wanted and just assisted in recording it.
He can be an incredibly careful man, yet sometimes has been unusually willing to make himself vulnerable, as he did in writing "Earth in the Balance," a confessional manifesto in which he ties man's mistreatment of the environment to a lack of deep connection in dysfunctional families.
Vocabulary: accused, virtue, decorum, anonymity, salacious, dutifully, proliferation, exhibitionism, confessionals, quaint, syndicated, irrelevant, defendant, pristine, aura, hypocritical, sensationalism, vulnerable, vigorous, voyeurism, stigmatized, deters, exacerbated, paradox Extension Activities: 1. Research what constitutes a decorum order.
