confessional
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The film’s theatrical provenance reveals itself in long monologues in the Marilyn confessional room and Pedretti delivers one that reveals the depth beyond Cherry’s ditzy exterior.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
What makes the album a timeless classic are its catchy melodies; shrewd arrangements that caught the culture’s disco obsession; and Mr. Scaggs’s earthy, confessional lyrics and intimate voice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
“I think I just pushed myself way past my limit,” she said in a confessional.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
Mr. Bryan’s brooding inward focus and hushed vocal phrasing align him more closely with indie-rock and confessional artists from years past, and he finds the country label limiting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
“Are you wondering how I know all this? Have you forgotten our meeting in the confessional? Or our nighttime rendezvous in the Sacca della Misericordia?”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
