confessional
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And there were a good many other sequences planned for the picture which are not there, including her visit to a confessional in the Catholic church - without words, nothing was ever said.
an enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear people confess their sins.
His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals , offering glimpses into a celebrity's life.
an admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about; a confession.
adjective
the autobiography is remarkably confessional
(especially of speech or writing) in which a person reveals or admits to private thoughts or past incidents, especially ones that cause shame or embarrassment.
the confessional approach to religious education
of or relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems.
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Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other 'confessional' groups.
His film springs from a US culture steeped in acts of catharsis, where the therapist's couch has usurped the church 'confessional' , and in its turn it has been eclipsed by the public exorcisms of the chat show.
Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a 'confessional' .
But I did not know until later that our Baptist forefathers had found that wonderful document to be a helpful guide in formulating our early 'confessional' statements.
They started with an a priori assumption that their particular 'confessional' stance descended from the original expression of the Christian faith in the first century.
Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a 'confessional' whisper.
With regard to Baptists becoming teachers in public schools and 'confessional' religious instruction, the situation in Finland has been much the same as in the other Nordic countries.
Did he mean he would violate the 'confessional' seal?
Jason coincidentally put up a post about pre-web writings on the same day I stumbled upon a 'confessional' diary of my teenage years.
Institutionally, the field is not best described in the ways better suited to a previous period, using the categories of 'confessional' theology and neutral religious studies.
‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the 'confessional' .
They spoke in a 'confessional' whisper.
However, I would no longer go in a 'confessional' booth and say sorry to some superior being for my mistakes, instead, I learn from them, I could never be sorry for my life experiences.
With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and 'confessional' lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast.
In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, 'confessional' religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution.
Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small 'confessional' , and an altar below a crucifix.
Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the 'confessional' conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse.
The role of 'confessional' statements in the search for unity and the effect of participation in the Eucharist to establish the fellowship of believers with each other and Jesus Christ are seen as forging an inner link.
The decree on revelation, moreover, underscored the mystery of our encounter with the divine and hence the inadequacy of all our 'confessional' statements about it.
While I'm in a 'confessional' mood, I might as well admit that the technique of salting hashes for increased security in storing passwords had passed me by until recently, too.
Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times 'confessional' , highly personal.
However, in a drunk, 'confessional' moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’.
Curiously, his weakest section is the book's centerpiece chapter on the phenomenon of 'confessional' Protestantism.
Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood 'confessional' .
When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and 'confessional' doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
Religion, especially 'confessional' Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
The reaction to our contemporary 'confessional' culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy.
It is not a 'confessional' religious statement about the nature of God; rather, only the view of the writer/community is presented.
The play then shifts to a church 'confessional' where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless.
And the evidence of that confession, or 'confessional' statement, was admitted without objection?
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