Example sentences for: confessional

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

  • 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.).

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

  • For the time being, I'll put my trust in that the rollicking goulash of advocacy journalism, public-interest lobbying, scientific inquiry, straight-up news reporting, first-person confessional, government documents, academic findings, rumors, and innuendo that finds its way into print and into the wires.

  • Or are they simply updates of the confessional and the shrink, the cult and the Freemasons?

  • Next to these films, the moral contortions of 8MM seem especially bogus, a sadomasochistic peep show booth pretending to be a confessional.


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