confessional
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noun
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 was an unashamed 'confessional' Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
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.
God is not revealed in words and 'confessional' statements, but as presence.
It becomes an open diary or 'confessional' booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired.
Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and 'confessional' statements.
When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and 'confessional' doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
I'm going to have to spend a year in the 'confessional' at church after all this is over.
And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the 'confessional' .
They spoke in a 'confessional' whisper.
Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times 'confessional' , highly personal.
Religion, especially 'confessional' Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the 'confessional' .
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.
With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and 'confessional' lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast.
‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the 'confessional' .
In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all 'confessional' psychodramas of reality TV.
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.
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.
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.
It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in 'confessional' verse.
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.
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.
By confusing the public and the private, today's 'confessional' culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’.
With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, 'confessional' modes employed in the Soviet era.
American 'confessional' Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time.
Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a 'confessional' .
However, in a drunk, 'confessional' moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’.
Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other 'confessional' groups.
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.
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.
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