confessionalism
Americannoun
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Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
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So it’s rich that the more naked confessionalism of Scorpion also has been prompted by Kanye West.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2018
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
I wondered, too, about writers like Kanye West and Drake, two of the most critically and commercially successful rappers of our time, both prone to bald confessionalism.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2016
Whether on blogs or Facebook, in tweets or poems, what matters in confessionalism is not the dirty or trivial detail itself but the writing of it.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012
He did yeoman service in breaking down the high Lutheran confessionalism which had been the order of the day.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
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