confessionalism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
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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
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
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
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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