confessionalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the most surprising and promising is the closer “Male Fantasy” — an arrestingly pretty acoustic ballad that follows through with the confessionalism promised at the beginning of the record.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
So it’s rich that the more naked confessionalism of Scorpion also has been prompted by Kanye West.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
Over her past five superb albums, she has written delicate and stormy parables about romance, wanderlust, art and self-realization, invoking myth and archetype as much as confessionalism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2017
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
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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