Example sentences for: confessional

How can you use “confessional” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Washington Post leads with the release of Atlanta gunman Mark Barton's confessional notes.

  • A poetic homage, for sure, since the two writers exemplify the stylistic divide between the confessional poets of the postwar United States (count Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Sexton, and others) and their more objective British counterparts (think of Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, etc.).

  • She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."

  • They're finally cottoning on to the political value of the confessional culture.

  • Although its philosophy has been taken over by the field of psychiatry (in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots--as far as Western culture is concerned--in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.


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