confessionalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
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
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
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
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
Southern Synods Withdrawing.—One of the arguments advanced against confessionalism was that synods subscribing to all of the Lutheran symbols neither agreed in doctrine, nor succeeded in effecting a union.
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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