confessionalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Antonoff’s blunt confessionalism always cedes to optimism, as on the disjointed but full-hearted single “I Wanna Get Better” — an anthem, and a title, that fully sum up his brand of vulnerability and pluck.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
They wrote passionate and urgent songs that eschewed the rote, damselish confessionalism that rock music still too often expects of female artists.
From Slate • Oct. 20, 2014
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
The tide of confessionalism which had been rising in Europe for half a century touched America in the forties and reached a high water mark during the period under review.
From The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by Wenner, George
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