confessionalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
Example Sentences
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In those days, it did not occur to much of the world to question Salinger’s choices, or to imagine that Maynard’s honesty might constitute not simply confessionalism but a brash kind of courage.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
So it’s rich that the more naked confessionalism of Scorpion also has been prompted by Kanye West.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
But she did bring some of the confessionalism of the literary memoir and the ground-level emotional naturalism of mumblecore cinema into serial television.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
Ms. Waller-Bridge knows how to combine naked confessionalism and comic artifice, and it allows her to tap veins of honest emotion — anger, fear and particularly deep sadness — rarely felt in half-hour comedies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
The South Carolina Synod, organized in 1824, of which Dr. J. Bachman, who opposed the confessionalism of the Tennessee Synod, was a member.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
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