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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He rejected 'confessional' Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
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.
In a series of 'confessional' encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon.
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.
I'm going to have to spend a year in the 'confessional' at church after all this is over.
With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and 'confessional' lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast.
Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other 'confessional' groups.
The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the 'confessional' .
He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin 'confessional' in the hallway outside the lavatories.
Religion, especially 'confessional' Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, 'confessional' lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in 'confessional' postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages.
I have used the 'confessional' voice in both poetry and prose myself, not because I couldn't contain my urge to express myself, but because I thought that it might well be the best technique for a certain piece.
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.
The reaction to our contemporary 'confessional' culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy.
Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a 'confessional' .
In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all 'confessional' psychodramas of reality TV.
‘I want to hear a love 'confessional' ,’ he said before realizing he was saying it.
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.
And the evidence of that confession, or 'confessional' statement, was admitted without objection?
And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the 'confessional' .
He was an unashamed 'confessional' Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in 'confessional' verse.
This is not necessarily a criticism: refusing to provide much context for their narratives, these songs are guardedly 'confessional' , eager to elicit emotions but hesitant to reveal too much.
Did he mean he would violate the 'confessional' seal?
In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, 'confessional' religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution.
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.
American 'confessional' Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time.
One senses they'd rather have a 'confessional' book.
Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and 'confessional' statements.
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