| 单词 | confessional |
| 例句 | I longed for a confessional, for the safety of the wood cubicle and the green curtain that separated priest and penitent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose this office has been used as a confessional before.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I kneel with people in the pews next to confessionals but when my turn comes I can’t breathe, my heart pounds, my forehead turns cold and clammy and I run from the church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Scipio and Mosca looked amazed when he emerged from the confessional with his find. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Within two weeks, he’d resigned and spent the rest of his days in a small cabin writing confessional poetry. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Oh, great,” he said in a flood of relief, then added in a confessional tone, “I thought maybe you might not want me along.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They had come into the church the night before and deposited the contents of latrines inside the confessional. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lines were already formed on either side of the confessional, and the kids were behaving and quiet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear whisperings from the confessional on the other side. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A party of tourists shuffled past the confessional while their guide described the mosaics above their heads in a muted voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They all drew around the kneeling Horse and myself, and the wall provided the enclosure but not the privacy of the confessional. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t look as frail as Prosper had imagined him from their encounter in the confessional. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The priest murmured Latin words of forgiveness in the confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree’s huge, dark branches offered protection, like a confessional. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course there was also a curtain on the side of the confessional to protect the sinners from curious eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Already without family, she was further isolated from her people, for, except for the relative bliss on the island, every other resource was denied her: partnership in marriage, confessional friendship, and communal religion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The confessionals were tucked away in one of the side aisles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But on Sundays they got all dressed up only to go to a church where there was no incense, no sacred body and blood, and no confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one by one—as we would be summoned to judgment after death—we entered the airless confessional. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But on this night, surrounded by friends and empowered by the confessional tone of the speech, he can’t help himself. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z By then I had filled up half my closet wall with boy-crazy confessionals. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z His confessional, I later learned, was the calculated result of hard work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was sealed, just like the one in the confessional. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the prisoners underwent the examination in groups of twelve; they merely recited a sort of confessional and catechism, got their anti-kemmer shot, and were released to work. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When her turn came, Francie pushed aside the heavy curtain and knelt in the confessional. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll have to wait till I go to America where there are priests like Bing Crosby in Going My Way who won’t kick me out of the confessional like Limerick priests. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His silence made me feel like I was suspended in space, like I’d been dropped into a confessional. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z "Tomorrow afternoon. Three o'clock sharp. The Conte will wait for you in the first confessional on the left. And don't be late. The man is always very punctual." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But he communicated his true feelings to his closest colleagues through a series of confessional letters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After a long wait, Agnes, who had been in front of me came out of the confessional. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two eyes, round and bright, seemingly with no pupils, gleamed through the darkness of the confessional. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “You have a look, Prosper,” Scipio whispered, while he and Mosca shielded the confessional from view. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “My knowledge of myself is limited, and we shouldn’t get too deep into it. I don’t want this to end up like a confessional,” he said via video last month. Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z These are the times I question editing decisions: Do we need a few quick joint confessionals of Ali/Amar for a quick chuckle here and there? "Top Chef" serves up an underwhelming Restaurant Wars thanks to uneven teams, lack of drama 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Gaga's complaint about the pair's long rivalry — expressed to camera in a long, confessional jag — is that Madonna wasn’t open and frank enough with her critiques of Gaga. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps not always fortunately, subsequent writers, far more frank and confessional, showed far fewer qualms in writing about their fathers. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z For all its confessional frankness and accusatory clarity, there is, as Szwed reveals, much more to her story—and the circumstances of the composition of “Lady Sings the Blues” are an exemplary part of it. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A reliance on confessional monologue — in essence, the posture of the therapist’s couch — worked beautifully in the earlier novels, inscribing their concern with solipsism in the sealed universe of a single voice. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z References to dancing lessons and a certain “dancing master” — whom he suspected of stealing his wife’s affections — appear throughout his detailed, confessional entries. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Cars mutate into a shower, a confessional or a gigantic accordion that plays three notes. Art books for the holidays: Gauguin, Dal?, Maria Frank Abrams and more 2010-12-02T00:40:00Z She maintains a chatty, confessional presence on social media, and, unlike many of her peers, knows that humor and transparency are valuable currency, and that neither can be very credibly fudged. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It opens with a confessional “first date,” a canoodling couple sharing their hopes and fears in between smooches. ArtsBeat Blog: Liz Magic Laser's Political Theater of the Absurd 2011-11-14T23:18:23Z Early in the set, "The Resistance" is a searching confessional in which Drake's rhymes deliver potted biography, braggadocio, girl trouble, abortion regret and a line about moving his grandmother into a nursing home. Drake/ J Cole ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:38Z In her lyrics, her aim is to be personal while stopping shy of confessional, a technique she learned from listening to Marvin Gaye. Alicia Keys Goes From Spark to Fire 2012-09-30T05:34:03Z It’s confessional and a bit wild, but intellectually formidable. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z Vertigo: Few directors have portrayed a man’s obsession with a woman with such technical mastery and confessional purity. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z Mr. Bell’s text is largely autobiographical, and his accounts of mundane or meandering outings rang truer than the more confessional tone that followed in “Cold March.” Dance Review: Ian Spencer Bell Marries Words and Movement 2014-03-22T02:05:21Z So raw is he in the film, which culminates in a searingly honest confessional to camera about the mistakes he's made in his life, that he was ashamed when he first watched it. Jean-Claude Van Damme: 'I tried to play the system; I was blacklisted' 2012-08-10T22:44:55Z Eilish insists that not all of these songs are directly autobiographical, and it’s true that “Happier Than Ever” is not exactly a confessional. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Berlant seemed to be making a mockery of confessional comedy, emphasizing the artifice of her own performance, talking about herself but revealing nothing. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Each barely an hour and running on different dates, they are both confessional in nature and intriguing. | 'Cheerful Insanity': ?Cheerful Insanity,? Here Arts Center - Review 2011-10-09T19:07:48Z I meant to save that for the confessional. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z As the story progresses, there is never any confessional but she becomes ever more heart-rending. Lily Gladstone: ‘I lived in the reservations until I was 11’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z For Wild to work as a movie, and for confessional memoir to pack the same punch onscreen as it does on the page, honesty must trump likability. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The writing is ruthlessly confessional, and it seems so fresh that Munk pauses now and then as if he’s still checking whether he wants to share some of this stuff in front of an audience. Review | Felonius Munk’s ‘Nothing to Lose’ is a Second City winner 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z She saw the confessional poetry that bloomed into vogue in the middle of the 20th century as a dubious pursuit, for the most part. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z That confessional show, under the name “Ghetto Klown,” made it to Broadway and won Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. John Leguizamo begins teaching his 'Latin History for Dummies' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The 28-year-old has just published her first confessional memoir, And The Heart Says Whatever. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z RELATED: Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: "I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record" Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Beyonce, dressed in a black, priestess-like robe, watches silently from a pulpit and later sits listening on the other side of the confessional screen. Jay-Z 'confesses' to Beyonce in 'Family Feud' music video 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The confessional label does a disservice to each of these poets, for various and complicated reasons. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Now, 17 years after the first "Sex and the City" column was published, a new wave of confessional writers is picking up where Bushnell left off. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z A camera mounted on Coyne's microphone broadcast his every expression like a deep space confessional. Flaming Lips stage 'freaktastic romp' in Puyallup 2011-09-22T16:42:41Z Taylor is over the top in her big, confessional scene with Eddie Fisher, but still riveting to watch, the way she works the highs and lows of it. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z It's often called confessional writing by male reviewers, but I think the word confessional in this instance is a put-down. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Guests on the confessional series are required to admit to failures and, after a series of very public triumphs, Day asked Waller-Bridge to recall errors made during this period in the limelight. I’m sorry Fleabag put my family in spotlight, says Phoebe Waller-Bridge 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Last week, Hart sat in the confessional booth that is DeGeneres’s couch. Ellen DeGeneres and the Trap of Trying to Be “Relatable” 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Michael Kramer, as psychiatrist Martin Dysart, anchors the cast of skilled performers who are in tune with the slightly declamatory, confessional style of the piece and secure in a range of British accents. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z From the Ground Up isn't one of those confessional albums, where record stands for diary. New band of the day – John Fullbright (No 1,471) 2013-03-14T16:01:50Z Gathered into her “Collected Poems,” which posthumously won a 1982 Pulitzer Prize , they showcased her as a master of the “confessional” style. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The supply closet is a confessional booth and a meditation chamber, to which this peculiar figure recedes to concentrate on upending the order of the world. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the much younger members of Modern Baseball aim smaller, with scraggly guitar riffs and rambling Facebook confessional lyrics, but are equally adept at tugging at those high school heartstrings. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z This mesmerizing maestro of navel-gazing neurosis created a confessional style that has been widely mimicked but rarely surpassed. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Carrère’s likable style isn’t just conversational, it’s openly confessional. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z There's a speech, letter, a diary, a Web manifesto, all of which offer an immediate, confessional tone that makes looking away impossible. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “Like Brothers” takes on a confessional tone at times, because the “two guys from the South who didn’t go to therapy,” as Mark frames it, often iron out personal issues through their creative work. How the Duplass brothers have worked together for almost 40 years without killing each other 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Julien Baker sang richly poetic songs of trauma and redemption, moving from almost unbearable fragility to confessional strength. SXSW: From Exclusive Performances to Cellphone Souvenirs 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z But my conservative father disdained my liberalism, confessional poetry about my addictions and screwy relationships, and focus on creative writing. My disapproving doctor father hated my work — but we had more in common than I thought 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z His comedy avoids the fashionable confessional style in favor of borscht belt standards about hectoring mothers and religious figures walking into bars. Review: In ‘Humor Me,’ a Dose of Borscht Belt for a Midlife Crisis 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z No explanation is offered for his act of confessional vandalism. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z This album is full of the sort of self-lacerating confessional music that was all the rage two decades ago, and now, in a different time, feels both completely foreign and surprisingly refreshing. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z His voice dropped to a confessional whisper: “Really, it can be complicated.” James Spader Prepares for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z It may be that she is holding back on the sort of day-to-day detail laid out by other maternal confessionals so as to spare her children any queasy embarrassment. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Although Simon eventually reveals a morsel or two about his own past, he is on hand primarily to prompt Roelf’s anguished confessional. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘Train Driver,’ From Signature Theater 2012-09-10T02:17:30Z At a yet-undisclosed time before the exhibition closes, Fennell and Donovan plan to turn the more intimate sanctum into a “cloud confessional,” where you can talk to The Word and The Word will talk back. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Even in our chatty, confessional culture, certain subjects are too unwieldly, too difficult, too painful to easily and effectively put into words. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z He went to Hollywood to reverse his fortunes and sold some confessional Esquire pieces, later published as The Crack-Up. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z Because this is a working parish, there were antique confessional boxes with modern signs over them, as well as a lottery board with a list of prizes in handwritten marker. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Another counter to Hardwick’s idea of the literary letter as an idealized self-portrait is her own wrenching correspondence with her husband of 23 years, the confessional poet Robert Lowell. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In fact, the allegation most often levelled at a confessional essayist tends to be that they are writing in a trite and essentially superficial way about themselves: the literary equivalent of navel-gazing. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z The singer Summer Walker follows in a similar beatific confessional vein, except she finds power where many have only found discomfort. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z We learn all this in a 160-page tranche of confessional autobiography composed by Patty at her therapist's suggestion. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z The praise and critique often focus on what appears to be the show’s primary contribution to the world: the popularization of first-person confessional reality TV and the now-established millennial culture of self-discovery and self-disclosure. Thirty Seasons of “The Real World” 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “Michael did not quite know where he was positioned along this narrative” of connected, confessional tracks, she writes. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z In person Ms. Kass, now 60, has the instant familiarity of the native New Yorker, quick with the one-liner, by turns funny, brash and confessional. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z On the surface the narrator’s confessional, acutely detailed monologue hovers between long stretches of intense recitative and passages of lyrically enhanced arioso, sometimes poignant, sometimes chillingly detached. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Although famously press-shy, he filled the next two and a half hours with lively and at times confessional talk — about his childhood, his career, his opinions on fashion. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z As early as 2007, with the title song of her second album, “The Story,” Carlile proved she could sound confessional while belting to the rafters. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z However starkly confessional “I Love You, Daddy” sometimes registers as, it can also be seen as an act of symbolic patricide, a way of addressing a tarnished idol. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z His confessionals repeatedly let us know he's 25, highlight his slight showboat-ing and the fact that he — like Buddha — is a very recent winner. "Top Chef: World All Stars": We see London, we see France, we see cheftestants cooking up plants 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z By encouraging other composers to use her inbox as a kind of digital confessional booth, Ms. Plexus hoped to elicit a diverse range of material from artists she admired on the contemporary classical scene. Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z If Downs seems to penetrate to the centre of the modern gay condition with almost preternatural ease, it is because he's writing from confessional as well as professional perspective. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z But because it's a reality show rather than a one-on-one confessional documentary, we see a different side of Tyson -- less intense and poetic, more ordinary-seeming. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z Distilled from a weeklong series of confessional, often poignant conversations, Lindsey’s life story merges a typically hard-luck childhood with an atypical work ethic. Movie Review: ?Better Than Something,? a Documentary About Jay Reatard 2012-03-02T01:38:40Z The voice was plain, direct, quite often close to confessional, at other times clearly confessional. Southern Scamps and Scoundrels in the Fiction of Larry Brown 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s unapologetic and confessional, showing the flaws in humanity just below the skin. Brian Van Reet’s ‘Spoils’ moves fiction about the Iraq War into new territory 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Rather, "Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel" works as something of a confessional, a series of notebooks that excavate its protagonist's life and psyche from the inside. 'Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel' conjures a new literary form 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Dark, confessional poems had their place, but he believed a true poet should be just as adept at humor and light verse. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z A remodel was probably overdue, but the best moment here is another signature stomper: Baby Come Home, a late-night insecurity confessional boasting their catchiest tune since I Don't Feel Like Dancing. Scissor Sisters: Magic Hour – review 2012-05-24T21:15:01Z Off camera, she’s quieter, less direct and friendly, without being confessional. The real Issa tries to live with the fake Issa. Her ‘Insecure’ fans are watching. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z She finished her degree and expanded from performing on the campus scene to the L.A. scene, building a band and writing songs — confessional, jazzy, lyrically frisky. ‘The most welcoming safe space on the planet’: How Sara Bareilles returned to her roots in theater 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z A generation ago, Yung Lean might have cooed over a fingerpicked guitar, but today his medium is confessional rapping over airy, melancholy rap beats. Yung Lean, King of the Sad Boys 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The latter, released in 2008, was a powerful indie-folk confessional that at times sounded like Blood on the Tracks colliding with Arab Strap. Frightened Rabbit: 'We've gone back to brutal honesty' 2013-01-24T17:24:27Z Instead of that, we got a confessional about the internal turmoil and rigors of being a film critic. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z According to the Los Angeles Times, the film will blend concert footage with confessional interviews to reveal details about both Beyoncé’s career and her personal life. Beyoncé to Direct, Produce Documentary…About Beyoncé 2012-08-03T18:34:58Z In an interview with New York magazine, Macdonald balked at the trend toward confessional art, saying he thought art was supposed to be about concealment. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Here the show enters that familiar theatrical territory of change among friends over time, and you can just sit back and wait for the inevitable revelations and confessionals. Review: Cooking Their Way Out of the ’50s, Singing 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Stranger still is the approach he winds up taking, which is both intensely confessional and openly carnal. Literary analingus: “What I really wanted to do with Nicholson Baker was have Emersonian sex with him” 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Chatel has already chronicled her decision to get divorced, so this latest piece is an extension of an ongoing public confessional, but one that has gotten international attention. We’ve reached peak male fragility: A writer sends a box of horse crap to “my cheating husband” and random men tell her she should kill herself 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Or I whisper serious questions into their ears, inquiring if anything made them sad or happy that day, as though they were in a confessional. Perspective | I want to cuddle with my kids, but is it safe? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In this genial if formulaic confessional, Voigt addresses the addictions she has struggled with — alcohol, sex and above all, food. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Striving to assemble language into art, I want to construct an imaginative world that is entirely my own, which is neither confessional nor abstract. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z And Lady Gaga’s fans cite her raw and confessional “Speechless” as among their favorite songs. Letters: Lady Gaga: When Surface Is Depth 2010-07-28T19:56:00Z Deborah's on a downward swing, having tried out the new confessional material Ava encouraged her to explore at her last show as the Queen of the Las Vegas Strip, only to bomb magnificently. HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The son of a tax office worker and strict Catholic, Gleeson, who grew up in Dublin and was accustomed to confessionals, began in theater in the 1970s. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z During the shop at Whole Foods, it feels like deja vu as we are yet again treated to a Dawn confessional in which she notes that she's struggling with menu conception. "Top Chef: World All Stars": We see London, we see France, we see cheftestants cooking up plants 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z If inspired, visitors can participate in the group catharsis inside a confessional booth. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Erdrich owns an independent bookstore called Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, which shares some similarities with the fictional store — including a proprietor named Louise and a confessional booth. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “My Struggle” is fundamentally a confessional work, and Karl Ove has admitted, in Book Three, that he is writing in part to exact revenge on those who pitied, dismissed or bullied him. Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The last two verses exude a take-no-prisoners stoicism while the rest of the song is a humorous confessional. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Celmins has claimed that she is not a “confessional” artist. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z And although this film is the least autobiographical of Birbiglia’s works — which include the acclaimed confessional solo show “Sleepwalk With Me” and subsequent film version — its plot rings true for comedians. When ‘Saturday Night Live’ takes your comedy partner, how do you feel? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The show is being described as "part confessional, part observational, part inspirational and part anecdotal". Stephen Fry takes on standup comedy 2010-08-12T14:42:00Z The cloistered theatre rehearsal with the air of a confessional, and the ballet studio with the air of a car mechanic's repair shop: these are two extremes, and I'm sure not representative. What really goes on in the rehearsal room? 2011-01-14T14:58:38Z Williams, author of the award-winning memoir "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," talks about writing as poetry, as politics, as conferral and as confessional. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z With its unsparing confessional drama, “Faces” set the themes, the moods, and the styles for the rest of his career. The Front Row: “Faces” 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z A paradoxical and vitally overflowing character emerges: a compassionate moralist with vast appetites, a raucous public performer whose confessional candor has a nearly religious purity. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z “Nina was at the forefront of a wave of confessional games,” said Bennett Foddy, an independent game designer who made the internet hit “QWOP,” and was one of Ms. Freeman’s professors in graduate school. No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z If you couldn’t tell from his illustrations, Snider freely admits up front, “I’m in love with books,” in a full-page handwritten confessional. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z "So while I'm here being all confessional, I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I've never really been able to air in public," she said. The genius of Jodie Foster's speech 2013-01-14T16:48:00Z “People call it oversharing and confessional and that slightly undermines it as a form of journalism,” says Gordon, who now writes a weekly column about life as a young mother. Bridget Jones: how to turn a female character into half a billion dollars 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Only twice does he even write to Greene's Antibes address – first with a frenetic confessional, then with an offer to interview him. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z The book it describes, by Clancy Martin, is a doozy: messy, confessional but ultimately beneficent. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z She’s in strong voice throughout and no less confessional than ever. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “For Ahkeem” seems at times like a young woman’s confessional video diary. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z By the time Emin created “My Bed,” she had become well known for blending the conceptual and the confessional. Two Beds and the Burdens of Feminism 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z To hear it from McFarland’s small army of embittered former employees, many of whom Smith wrangles here for gobsmacking confessional interviews, their boss suffered from a well-hidden mix of hubris and denial. "Fyre" review: A compelling, all-access look inside the worst music festival of all-time 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But there’s more going on here than just confessional chatter. Sinister Doings at a Luxury Spa? Must Be a New Liane Moriarty Novel 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z As the band’s main lyricist, Wood juggles the cryptic and the apparently confessional, the self-lacerating and the absurd. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Hill's superbly crafted tale doesn't belong to a confessional age, but it does belong to an age where we are all striving for our own identity. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z In a confessional essay in 1991, he wrote that “negative campaigning is wrong” and set out rules for himself for the future. The Inscrutable Mike Pence 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He sees and explains himself via literature, instead of the modern babble of confessional self-analysis. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z Unlike most of the scripted, so-called “reality TV” that dominates the genre, Lyons purposely includes production mistakes, awkward moments and candid confessionals, punctuated with snarky graphics and sound effects. Jenna Lyons puts ‘real’ back into reality TV 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Nijinksy Heart is one of his better later tunes, but there's a troublingly maudlin undercurrent to all the confessionals and farewells. Marc Almond: Variet? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z Without sliding into confessional bathos, his voice was always personal and frank, creating in the reader a feeling of complicity, of shared knowledge and knowing humor. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But he was keenly sensitive to the relationships between Wagner’s characters, and his staging of this confessional moment is a high point. The Father-Daughter Bond at the Heart of Opera’s Greatest Epic 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z There is a larger statement overarching these magnificent digressions, and it is essentially a confessional. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The confessional nature of the works by Berg, Sibelius and Schubert reflected the composers’ distress about health and amorous problems, an underlying tension that surfaced with arresting nuance during the Escher String Quartet’s passionate performances. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z I just hit the end of my rope and wrote this scorched-earth confessional essay, saying, "Hi, I'm a fat person, and I work in your office, and we are friends." Lindy West is the troll-fighting feminist warrior you've been waiting for 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He was correct: We now expect confessional declarations from our candidates, even if, as in Donald J. Trump’s case, they lack any shred of spiritual sensibility. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Stanley Kubrick’s final film, a haunting psychosexual drama, drew a divisive reaction upon release but offered much to admire, not least Kidman’s intriguing turn that hits its peak in her confessional scene above. Nicole Kidman: five best moments 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But Mr. Shandling approached his camera interactions with a kind of confessional openness that made his audience virtual — and sometimes actual — actors in the show. Garry Shandling, who parodied TV’s conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The gemlike “Self-Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States” is as topical on the subject of national identity as any of Rivera’s murals, but Kahlo’s approach is meditative and confessional. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z So I think there can be a shame in the confessional that uniquely attaches to women that doesn’t attach in the same way to men. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z He collapses in tears once he has time to brood over his separation from his beloved children, and at one point starts a confessional letter to Sarah. Movie Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Directed by Eric Lartigau 2012-10-11T21:59:15Z While the ensemble scenes are absorbing, Ms. Winkler also supplies confessional monologues, which are reasonably engaging, though ultimately unnecessary. Review: A Wedding Reunion Goes Down Like a Shot of Whiskey in ‘Kentucky’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z For example, in addition to procuring abortion, attacking the pope, ordaining women to the priesthood and violating the confidentiality of the confessional would be considered “crimes” according to Catholic canon law. Catholicism at a crossroads: What does it mean now that Pope Francis gave priests the ability to forgive abortions? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Careening in tone from fairy tale to social satire to grim, confessional emails, these stories center on wounded devotees of intimacy. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z As its title suggests, “Recollections of My Nonexistence” toys with the confessional form, letting us in only so far. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “The Empty Chair” consists of two dovetailing novellas, both told in the guise of confessional monologues, both served up to a fictional version of the author, called Bruce. Books of The Times: Bruce Wagner’s ‘Empty Chair’ Novellas Explore Guru Territory 2013-12-16T23:03:03Z There’s a confessional aspect that seeps through the music. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z After telling people I was off work with depression, I ended up feeling like a priest at confessional. ‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z You can see the downstream influence of her mode of acidic, confessional writing all over the internet and even on real-life stages. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Then it turned into talk about producing objects and ideas of little importance, and a more confessional monologue about one performer's relationship with her parents. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z But then Jan abruptly switched gears, arbitrarily testing other performance modes, perhaps in an attempt to avoid being overly confessional or sentimental. Grasping for Dad's story in 'The Institute of Memory (TIMe)' 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z She says she feels uncomfortable in the confessional mode, but her writing makes breezy, if vague, use of her own indiscretions. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Where prior albums found her speaking on similar issues as if from the pulpit to a choir of her little monsters, is lyrically confessional, for better and for worse. Lady Gaga’s New ARTPOP Doesn’t Always Live Up to Title 2013-11-11T17:12:01Z “My Life,” full of confessional songs exploring Ms. Blige’s personal struggles, received a Grammy nomination for best R&B album and helped establish her as a star. Chucky Thompson, Hitmaking Producer, Is Dead at 53 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even, late in the novel, paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Along the way, he’s finding that he has a bit more in common with the confessional cadre than he once thought — and that he’s more worried about democracy and guns than ever before. Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: “I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Her writing was poetic and confessional, beautifully crafted. Nancy Wilson on leading Heart with her sister: “The guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that” 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In the 90s, she was an angry young woman whose big lungs spat vengeance at an unfaithful lover, which happily coincided with the fashion for grungy guitars and female confessionals. Alanis Morissette – review 2012-06-28T17:09:37Z Curiously, the abundance of first-person confessionals does little to invite actual intimacy. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But Lowell was Plath’s teacher and great influence; his 1959 volume “Life Studies” effectively introduced and popularized confessional poetry in this country. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It was Green who showed him that “that confessional, autobiographical, intimate, unsayable material is perfectly fine content for comics,” Spiegelman said. Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z In the midst of the palms and the endless blue of the sky, Roth’s unvarnished delivery of this father-son confessional lands like a sucker punch. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z When I wrote Oblivion, the conclusion to my Power of Five series, I was thinking of several writers who had gone before me; what follows, my favourite dystopias, could be seen as a confessional. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z Comedian Louis C.K. happened to be there on the night she riskily turned her nightmare into confessional genius and persuaded her to release it to the public. The half-hour heartbreak: Amazon’s new comedies find laughs in painful places 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z According to Daum, one of the major problems with dubbing a piece of writing "confessional" is that it now immediately gets lumped in with the breathless prose of sub-standard chick lit. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Nor does he capture his daring, existential fear or ruthless, even dangerous commitment to confessional comedy. ‘Dark Meat on a Funny Mind’ Examines Richard Pryor 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z His performance was like a confessional comedy special condensed into a few minutes. The Golden Globes Were Too Big to Fail 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z With better acoustics, conspiratorial and confessional whispers will be audible. Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater 2011-06-24T23:34:25Z Either way, Carl’s confidentiality procedures feel some way removed from those of the traditional confessional. Lift up your hearts for Hillsong, the church that’s made a believer out of Bieber 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Kyle had a confessional or two joking about the relative absurdity of the dish being served so casually — but then that was that. The "Real Housewives" diet: Why we are seeing caviar everywhere when Americans can't afford eggs 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z That’s not to imply a confessional urge, but rather a drive to interrogate agency and self-possession. A Solo Turn From Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A lot of “confessional” comedy has ground itself into a rut in recent years. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Contemporary audiences are used to the convention of the confessional. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z “It was important for me to be clear about who I am and where I am,” Monáe says of her latest blend of confessional and political entertainment. Janelle Monáe brings an eclectic sound and idealism to her ‘Dirty Computer’ tour 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z In style, however, Ms. Diller belonged to a previous era: She was less conversational and confessional. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z Godard’s confessional movies—“A Married Woman” prime among them—do so with an agonized self-awareness; he reveals even the ugly and violent aspects of his impulses, along with his tender ones. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z At concerts, she is chatty and confessional between songs, working in narratives that allow concertgoers a view inside her creative process of songwriting. Taylor Swift speaks and Apple listens, how the superstar became music's most powerful voice 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z She acts brazen and unfazed, but in a confessional, she says that this just wasn't in the cards and she's made mistakes, but it's amazing to even be included. "Top Chef: World All Stars" cooks with sugar and spice (and everything rice) 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “This song is dedicated to people like me: those who struggle with insecurities, self-acceptance and self-esteem,” he said with confessional eyes before “Imagine Me.” Music Review: Kirk Franklin at Best Buy Theater - Review 2011-11-28T23:12:31Z Every contestant had recorded a “confessional” piece to camera of between 90 to 120 minutes with the producers in “the diary room” each night. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z With their boots-on-the-ground commitment to the hard work of rehabilitation, he and his peers seem to understand that attitudes are more likely to be changed by results than by celebrity confessionals. Movie Review: ‘The Anonymous People’ Looks at the Recovery Movement 2014-03-14T05:13:36Z The book became a cultural reference point and part of a new wave of confessional writing. Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ Author, Is Dead at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Rae brought plush radiance to the confessional aria and brilliant, agile singing to the showpiece. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Each episode is a confessional experience where conversations coast through sex, addiction, death, religion and an extensive variety of neuroses. With “Crashing,” Pete Holmes makes a good comedy about a decent man who’s a bad comic 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z It was so pained it seemed confessional, and its failure hurt him badly. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z In sixth grade, I was a leftwing confessional poet suspicious of all parental indoctrination. Why my father fasted on Yom Kippur: On survival, memory, and the power of a family story 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “Bag” is not particularly intimate or confessional, but Gold’s specifics still feel special, poetic even. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z That is debatable, but Mr. Luce’s play effectively weaves the details of Dickinson’s life, lived almost entirely within the bosom of her close family, into a public confessional generously spiced with selections of her poetry. ‘The Belle of Amherst’: Joely Richardson as Dickinson 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The booth, in the shape of a cartoon word bubble with “TRUTH” in bold letters on its side, serves as a video confessional. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Who is crying into the confessional cam about all the father figures in his life who left him — and how he “doesn’t want anyone to leave him again.” The Bachelorette Watch: Dodge Balls to the Walls 2013-06-11T09:45:29Z None of my work is explicitly confessional, but at the same time, we are who we are. Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence,’ ‘Westworld’ and the Lure of Techno-Noir 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Twisted Sisters was gross, confessional and utterly alluring. Diane Noomin, Who Helped Bring Feminism to Underground Comics, Dies at 75 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z When the occasional Gen Z-er shares their affinity for skinny jeans on social media, they strike an almost confessional tone. Skinny jeans will never die, says Levi’s — and these Gen Z fans 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z She was reminded of peep-show booths, confessionals, therapeutic offices, and the Cone of Silence from “Get Smart.” Close Encounters of the Theatrical Kind 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The telltale signs of the confessional essay include a warm, pseudo-confiding tone and a penchant for lists and adverbs like “humiliatingly” and “embarrassingly.” This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The composer Phil Kline’s “OUT COLD,” created for BAM’s Next Wave Festival, draws inspiration from Schubert’s soul-wracked song cycles and Frank Sinatra’s saloon confessionals. The Week Ahead: Oct. 21 — 28 2012-10-21T07:30:05Z For the Smith family, “Red Table Talk” provided proof of concept — it was acceptable, and even desirable, for the most prominent celebrities to make confessionals part of their brand. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z And not only through Beethoven; the second half of the programme is a performance of Shostakovich's confessional eighth quartet – agitated, difficult music for a child. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Teague is burdened with some confessional speeches that, in length and density, feel at odds with the otherwise naturalistic dialogue. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, it not only inspired a generation of black activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z The story, brilliantly translated by Watts, is patched together from scraps of rambling, deeply personal interviews, excerpts from a novel about the crimes, a confessional letter and crisp newspaper reports. Poisoned Sake and Mutilated Teddy Bears 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Are there any confessional novels that you used as inspiration, or that you particularly admire? ArtsBeat: Desperate Dad: Amity Gaige Talks About 'Schroder' 2013-02-06T19:55:31Z “I have always been averse to talking about myself and so I don’t write about my life the way the confessional poets do,” he has said. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Notaro was not a confessional comic until life pushed her to become one. Review: Netflix’s Tig Notaro Documentary, ‘Tig,’ Recalls a Time of Uncomfortable Laughs 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Second, the characters in “Modern Family” all offer confessional interviews directly to an unidentified cameraperson. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z Before Joni Mitchell changed the folk-singing game with “Blue,” Ms. Peacock was defining a liberated style of confessional, loosely flowing songs. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z She can conjure a gospel number, a tap soft-shoe, or a folk-rock confessional like a seasoned pro. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z His solution was to write "not a confessional", but what he calls "the context of the battle of ideas". The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z The confessional roots of “Dreamland” were actually sown on the band’s last album, “How to Be a Human Being,” which saw Bailey write each song from the perspective of someone else. Glass Animals ride the slow-burning ‘Heat Waves’ to Grammys 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z And as we planned, we veered into confessional. Perspective | He thought white men were vanishing from TV. I disagreed. So we conducted an experiment. 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The confessional documentary, memoir, play, whatever, is annoying far more often than it is effective, and that is certainly the case here. Review: ‘Prescription Thugs,’ a Confessional Documentary on Substance Abuse 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z She resolved to avoid alcohol and drugs, and to continue diligently writing in her journal, where she kept a confessional record of her thoughts and behaviors. ’90s folk superstar Jewel is happy — finally. Now she wants to know: Are you? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Just as at the beginning of the Mozart concerto at Avery Fisher, he phrased the start of the Schubert with a coyness that verged on archness before gradually relaxing: the formal turning confessional. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z As Allison explains to Claire over a succession of dead-end encounters, Paul was also cultivating an entirely separate life from his wife, one involving dubious art, confessional hugs and ukuleles. Review: A Husband Vanishes in ‘Claire in Motion.’ Mysteries Multiply. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He: extroverted and convivial, if afflicted, like her, with a fundamentally solitary nature, and a prolific writer who came to exemplify the confessional poetry of the 1950s and 1960s. Review: In ‘Dear Elizabeth,’ Two Solitary Poets Commune 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In a confessional, she even says, "Now they know me: My name is Chef May." "Top Chef: World All Stars" cooks with sugar and spice (and everything rice) 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z What might seem “confessional” from the outside is just an arrangement of facts, the facts of my life, no different, to me, than admitting that I’m right handed. Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Kim's confessionals about the experience are raw and charged; at one point she visibly tears up, and a producer, speaking off camera, lets her know that if she's says the word they'll step in. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer committee lauded "The Sympathizer" as "a layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a 'man of two minds' -- and two countries, Vietnam and the United States." Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 'The Sympathizer' 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “So I was praying every recess when everyone else was making out in the confessionals. I actually wanted to be a good person, wanted to have my faith.” Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The only songs he admits are completely confessional are those on The Sunset Tree, an album that chronicles his experiences with his abusive stepfather. Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls 2012-09-25T15:00:13Z And if we’re not any angrier or more confessional now than we were 30 years ago, we’ve certainly got a lot more kiosks upon which to post our grievances and truths. Blackness, Gayness, Representation: Marlon Riggs Unpacks It All in His Films 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The weird confessionals of her current Unapologetic album must be negotiated, but there will still be consolation to be had from her greatest hits. Tramlines, Devendra Banhart, Rihanna: this week's new live music 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z With her frank and unpretentious point of view, Bushnell developed an appealing and assured mode of storytelling that marries aspirational fantasy with friendly confessional. ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ Review: Candace Bushnell Dishes Hot Details 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Jay Z’s reply: His confessional and emotional 2002 tune, “Song Cry.” Beyonce and Jay Z: Contemporary pop’s ultimate duo 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Taking long pauses, sounding confessional without being so, Mr. Chappelle performs introspection while resorting to the same old tricks. Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z She began as a confessional singer with an acoustic guitar, but for her last record, “Epic,” she assembled a band, and her sound became more muscular. The Rough Harmonies of Sharon Van Etten 2012-02-05T04:55:45Z You became well-known on the radio for being so confessional. Wendy Williams Explains What Celebrities Can Learn From Kim Kardashian 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But Jhabvala thrived in the more densely screened confessional of fiction. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Sure, because I'm not a very confessional person. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z That’s one reason that bands like Jimmy Eat World — a pioneer of emo’s earnest, churning confessionals and self-help manifestoes — hate the term. Music Review: Growing Older With Less Empathy 2010-10-15T22:59:00Z It was insistently gigantic, from its earthshaking bass and its bombastic arrangements to the display of Mr. West’s ego, alternately confessional and proudly selfish. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Music Still Roils in a Critical Mass 2011-03-20T22:58:44Z After refusing to reveal the secrets of the confessional to a nosy king, the saint was subjected to brutal torture before being drowned in the Moldova River. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Ophüls conjures a kaleidoscopic tumble of grand emotion, as in a bravura nocturnal sequence that leaps from breathtakingly confessional tenderness to rowdily abstracted gaiety to desperately melodramatic anguish. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Apocalyptic Americana, gothic folk; there's even been a suggestion of confessional metal. Wu-Tang Clan, Atoms For Peace, Akron/Family: this week's new live music 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Contrary to what these advocates of the confessional culture suggest, narcissism and self-justification don't lead to absolution. PR advice for Charlie Sheen and other celebrity dummies 2011-03-09T09:00:00Z As his voice floats toward the foreground, the song becomes a confessional daydream, a yearning for ancestral homeland, an astral projection built atop a drum machine’s devoted pulse. Review | Galcher Lustwerk understands the rhythms of real life 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Barish seems like a Freudian case study, especially in the confessional tapes he makes of his memories of Clementine. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Korean provocateur Kim examines his own troubled state of mind in this stark self-made confessional. This week's new films 2012-06-08T23:05:15Z This show is far more confessional than the previous ones. Can You Love a Stand-Up Special About Loathing? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z For all the seeming intimacy of her lyrics, Armatrading has steadfastly insisted that the vast majority of her songs are not confessional. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z As with the other entries in the trilogy, "Wedding Album" features what Lennon described as a kind of “Unfinished Music,” a highly personalized sort of confessional autobiography. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's confessional, unapologetic "Wedding Album" 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet, as alternative acts were blooming around him in 1990s Chicago, he quickly realized he also didn’t belong in the world of confessional music that emphasized emotion over technical songcraft. Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: “I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Bristowe is halfway through her nine-city “KB Fall Crawl” tour, a series of alcohol-fueled live podcast tapings that feature raunchy jokes and embarrassing “confessionals” from “Bachelor” franchise alumni and other guests. Kaitlyn Bristowe has become Bachelor Nation’s unlikely lifestyle guru. A scrunchie for $15, anyone? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z She's honest, entertaining and never boring, and this memoir serves a purpose far beyond the confessional. Motherlode Blog: An Interview with Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, and Wrote a Book About It. 2013-01-15T14:07:08Z Combined with the unreliable narrative of its Marvellian centrepiece – part dramatic monologue, part seemingly confessional catharsis – God's Gift documents the exhilarating struggle between Paterson's wilful sassiness and a meditative lyricism fighting for more ground. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z We knew that the Knausgaardian mode of autofiction possessed a weird magnetism, but maybe it took a confessional Texas politician blowing off steam online for us to see just how much. Beto O‘Rourke‘s Rebirth as a Knausgaardian Blogger 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The genre is more confessional than ever, and the reigning queens of the industry, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, have both used personal experiences in their music to great effect. ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Tedros Has Notes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z He finds today's rhythms — distorted by the blur of the Internet and a confessional, look-at-me generation — hilarious and bewildering. Andrew Dice Clay enjoys another roll, with help from Woody Allen 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z They write their way out of their troubles, often through poems or lengthy, confessional emails. Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Sound engineering turns open offices into private spaces, an auditorium into a confessional. At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z While Ms. Griffith often wrote political and confessional material, her best-loved songs were closely observed tales of small-town life, sometimes with painful details in the lyrics, but typically sung with a deceptive prettiness. Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z He wasn’t the first person to realize that his brand of one-man variety show — equal parts teen confessional, pop satire and really great hair — might appeal to legions of angsty, wry-minded teens. Shane Dawson, YouTube?s Comic for the Under-30 Set 2010-04-02T21:21:00Z After a while, after the show had been on the air for a while, there was a precedent for that kind of confessional experience, so the floodgates opened. From phone sex to webcamming: Capturing the evolution of sex 2014-01-05T01:00:00Z They’re conversational, confessional and confident, free of frills and full of good advice. Music Review: A winning set by John Fullbright 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It was confessional and diaristic, with things that look, in our age of reality TV and blogs, prescient. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Yet it’s a mistake to focus too intently on the confessional aspects of her work. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z Hitchcock was excited by dress-up games while seeing them as adornments of an inner naked self, a confessional self. Review: “At Long Last Love,” a Peter Bogdanovich Masterwork That Was Despised in Its Time 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But they also asked about relationships, in searching, confessional letters unlike anything Americans thought to send Dr. Ruth. Dan Savage: “It was going to be a joke” 2012-10-06T22:00:00Z And with her hugs and tears and confessional, intimate style, it's easy to believe Oprah longs for that too. There will never be another Oprah 2011-05-24T15:06:00Z A line could be drawn between “4:44,” which is, in part, a sonic confessional, and “This is What I Mean,” which is also an exercise in vulnerability. How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Hunter undercuts the effectiveness of Will’s big confessional reveal by having him relate the circumstances of his disgrace to Alex in an earlier exchange, but nonetheless, there’s plenty to chew on here. | 'A Bright New Boise': Father, Son and Secret Converge Amid Glue Guns 2010-09-21T22:00:00Z As High Fidelity ticks through his “desert island, all-time top-five most memorable breakups”, Rob gets the opportunity to explain himself directly to the camera – an ingenious solution to the confessional first-person style of Hornby’s book. High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Winfrey's emergence coincided with a trend towards "confessional television" and also the coming of age in the 1980s of a demographic cohort of white suburban women open to having a friendly, charismatic black friend. Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z “MFA vs NYC” will appeal to many young writers, not merely for its insider perspective but also for its gossip and confessional essays. Books of The Times: ‘MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction’ 2014-02-25T20:27:31Z It has been so successful in changing women’s media that its once-signature blend of confessional essays, raunchy humor and outrage culture is no longer unique. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But other moments land as personal, even confessional: Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z And his jagged confessional music, which had enraptured millions, sprang nakedly from that violence. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Even if you're the kind of person who feels the whole confessional singer-songwriter genre is a passport to unbearable solipsism, it would take a stony heart not to root a little for him. John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts – review 2013-03-07T15:29:01Z It’s her first release since 2013’s Britney Jean, a confessional pop record that by most critical accounts failed to hit its mark. Britney Spears' New Album 'Glory' Is Finally Here 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z A sometimes ghastly mix of covert self-congratulation, awkward confession and wry philosophizing undercut by heavy-handed irony, Red Book prose can be an exercise in confessional self-concealment. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z In the similarly exemplary confessional Whatever Happened to the Times, he hits extraordinary notes as he sings of struggles with fading memories of long-lost better days. Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man in the Universe 2012-06-07T20:50:01Z As with so much confessional poetry, old or new, the eternal themes are love, longing, loneliness and loss. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Then all three quartets joined in full-throated affirmation in the confessional “I, I and my sins.” Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z I grew confessional, admitting that I was reluctant to engage Williams when he e-mailed, for fear of risk or looking foolish. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z He speaks mostly about himself, digressing from anecdotes about his childhood and professional life into more serious confessional territory, though always with reserve and good humor. | 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Visiting an Ordinarily Unique Artist 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z Now, with his project Car Seat Headrest, he releases the studio album “Teens of Denial,” a promising collage of arcane references, knotty confessionals and sturdy lo-fi rock rumbles. Pop & Rock Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The show’s closest predecessor was MTV’s Real World, which placed a group of strangers in a house together, filming their every move, fight, and confessional. Laguna Beach, 10 Years Later: All This Drama Started With the Black and White Party 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Stories that describe royal confessionals as immoral are similarly attempting to protect the monarchy, rather than recognizing the importance of holding a powerful institution to account. Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview: why "royal confessionals" threaten the monarchy 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Brassy, raw and riotously confessional, Midge is a dedicated homemaker and accidental comedian who can hold her own against even the gab-gifted Gilmores. Did You Hear the One About the Housewife Who Walks Into a Comedy Club? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Ross’s performance achieves the requisite apotheosis in Evan’s confessional second-act aria, “Words Fail,” a song that will have you near tears — if you have any heart at all. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The man spoke in a tone that shifted worryingly between aggressive and confessional, punctuating his lines with two disembodied hands. An Artist Who Explores the Deep Creepiness of Facial-Recognition Technology 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Were he seeking pointers, Mr. Cornell might look to an unlikely source: the Scottish confessional folk-rocker K T TUNSTALL, who is also on a solo tour. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z Grandiosely titled "My Violent Torpedo of Truth: Defeat is Not an Option," Sheen's haphazard act was neither standup nor confessional memoir, despite repeated promises that he was going to dig deep and dish secrets. Charlie Sheen bombs in Detroit debacle 2011-04-04T03:06:46Z Gould is one of a new generation of female confessional writers who, according to Sittenfeld, "speak, in our often phoney and cheesy culture, to the truths of women's lives". Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z In sequence, they make a sort of confessional poetry, offering a portrait of a kind-hearted sufferer: A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Sowards uploads a range of video types on her channel — from teaching videos and confessional vlogs to showing what life is like on a farm. Can YouTube give farmers a financial boost? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z "Finding Sarah", featuring disgraced British royal Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was inspired by a confessional TV interview between the two women earlier this year. Oprah aims for "mindful TV" in OWN network gamble 2010-12-30T18:40:07Z At what point does the confessional mode test the limits of empathy? New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z The meetings quickly became intimate; they took on an air of a confessional. Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Emotionally unfiltered, confessional: “It’s kind of how I am, on and off the microphone,” he said. Finneas, a Pop Star’s Secret Weapon, Strides Into the Spotlight 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The Midwestern brigade questioned my vanity for putting out more splashy confessional books. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes it means being confessional and dewy, but other times it means dropping baroque streams of profanity: DadWagon as Deadwood. Learning How to Sell Out at South By Southwest 2011-03-24T10:10:00Z He was not eager for “the navel-gazing and confessionals and self-obsession that goes on with songwriters.” Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z While her debut album was a confessional outpouring, “Through and Through” is more deliberate. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z That engagingly confessional humor, showcased here in clips from Ephron’s many television appearances, injected her romantic comedies with blasts of uniquely authentic insight. Review: ‘Everything Is Copy,’ a Son’s Tribute to Nora Ephron 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But Ms. Emin’s work has always blazed with a more eccentric, confessional energy. Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The source of the buzz: An intimate, earnest and confessional writing style that has inspired as many fans as critics. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z The personal is political, our second-wave feminists proved, and few modes of creative expression are more plainly confessional—more in service of internal dialogues—than pop. Fight the Power, With a Supergroup? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “Grass” is a movie of memory, with the café serving as a sort of spontaneous public confessional booth that customers fill with fragments of their past lives and the ongoing force of their traumas. “Grass,” Reviewed: Hong Sang-soo Listens in on Painful Confessions at a Coffee Shop 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The tone is confessional, clearheaded and often upbeat, the women relating their experiences with candor and resolve. ‘#Female Pleasure’ Review: Fighting the Patriarchy 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z They will be understood in time — not as “women’s poetry” or “confessional poetry” — but as myths that expand the human consciousness. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Jack’s confessional narration also has the air of a self-justification, which he delivers in the form of his philosophical discourses on aesthetics. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z After she dies, a series of cassette tapes begins to circulate, in which she provides 13 confessional, indicting accounts of the reasons she decided to commit suicide. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z But there were clues enough left behind, exhibit A being a confessional essay he wrote upon the ending of Breaking Bad, which he loved. Damon Lindelof and Why Twitter Is Not Always for Everyone 2013-10-16T21:47:33Z Kraus’s own intricately overlapping windows—the craft and play of their correspondences—complicate any easy reading of her work as “confessional.” This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z His muscular debut, 2015’s “Free TC,” showed the singer-songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist had an eye on pop stardom with its mix of confessionals, ribald party starters and commentary on the penal system. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Mann, 40, slender and chic, said that in her husband’s confessional comedies were a welcome antidote to what she said was her “very shy, kind of pent-up” youth and “WASPy” upbringing. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z But the piece is much less reliant on dialogue than usual, and there are none of the confessional sequences addressed to the audience which, if once resonant, now appear stale and insincere. Der Fensterputzer; Bamboo Blues – review 2012-06-23T23:05:59Z Abandoned in the 1950s, it was stripped of its religious art, with only its altars, confessionals and baptismal font left behind. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s comfortable in confessional mode in his music and his social media outbursts, which toggle between petulance, complaining about how he is misperceived, and grace, encouraging his followers with warmth and inspiration. Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The actor is clearly enjoying his role, especially during a confessional moment where he appears in closeup on a screen behind him as he is emoting. Penélope Cruz dominates in "Official Competition," a delightful satire about ego and filmmaking 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z After seeing “Springsteen on Broadway,” he reports: “I am still not sure how to categorize this intimate, dreamlike encounter with a music legend accustomed to selling out football stadiums. … Call it a confessional jam session.” Essential Arts & Culture: The new MacArthur winners, Gehry's Bilbao effect, Springsteen on Broadway 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z You could argue, in fact, that in our all-tweeting age, the Notebooks' confessional, self-absorbed tone makes them even more relevant today than when they were published, three years ago. The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z I wonder what the confessional Michel and the witty Max would make of each other, and which of them the enchantingly observant, picky author of “The Pillow Book” would be tempted to go home with. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z We often try to gauge the integrity of a folk song based on how confessional its lyrics are, or maybe by how intimately those lyrics are being sung. Hiss Golden Messenger’s radiant rhythms 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Daly rides her overtly confessional speeches like a veteran jockey on a tearaway horse. Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z It is an arresting device, both confrontational and confessional. Strong Island’s Yance Ford: ‘I have no interest in giving my brother’s killer any space in this film’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Part satire, part autofiction, part confessional, “My Dinner With André” never loses the plot; it doesn’t have one to begin with. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z True Confessions: The best from our secret microphones in church confessionals around the nation! Style Invitational contest Week 1106: Resolutions for Jan. 1, 2115 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It was a performance that, despite the spotlights and spinning cameras, felt like a moment of intimacy, confessional and whispered. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z But Gossamer’s X-ray confessionals offer just enough intrigue to ignore its faults. There's Nothing Light About Passion Pit's Gossamer 2012-07-23T18:09:47Z “It started to scrutinise his innermost being, his demons, his exhilarations. Facing the lens of the camera took on the quality of a confessional.” Dancing with death: the murky ethics of filming people in life-threatening danger 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z If Grant’s voice is never confessional, it almost never rings false. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z For another, “Pythagodress,” she created a huge pentagonal costume of fabric and pipes that was part confessional booth, part giant uterus. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z She mocks the postures of our confessional era while reveling in them. ‘Come for Me’ Review: T.M.I. in Overdrive 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In January, Caroline Calloway, 27, known for her long, confessional Instagram captions, hosted a creativity workshop in New York, which was meant to be the first in a “global tour.” All the Writers’ Workshops 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The movie is filmed like a third-person confessional about the lives of others. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The song’s confessional tone and unadorned presentation felt like a departure from his usual flair for high concepts and singing in character. Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Sexual autonomy is often presented as “confessional”—either overly comic or overly melodramatic, and when a female sexual youth is described as a series of “misadventures,” it rankles me. Every mistake I’ve made in bed — and why there’s no reason to be shamed by any of them 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The killer makes his entrance right after Father James, seated off screen in a confessional and issuing convincing threats. ‘Calvary,’ John Michael McDonagh’s Murder Mystery 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Wurtzel believes that distaste for confessional writing like “At Home in the World” is more often than not a consequence of simple misogyny. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The audio recordings, which were never publicly released prior to the documentary, features confessionals from members of Monroe's inner circles, including Hollywood elites, prominent casting agents and her closest companions. The 6 most heartbreaking Marilyn Monroe moments from Netflix’s “The Unheard Tapes" documentary 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There’s nothing interestingly confessional or even revealing about his taut, carefully crafted jokes. Critic’s Notebook: Jerry Seinfeld Is Still at Home Doing Stand-Up 2012-10-14T21:56:07Z Joining her on the bill across two nights at SummerStage will be Lucy Dacus, another young talent with a literary, confessional songbook. Afropunk and 8 Other Outdoor Concerts to Put on the Calendar 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z On her most recent releases, her confessional, poetic songs are bolstered by a slew of different electronic effects and synths instead of basic rock instrumentation. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He sat on one side of the church confessional while I sat on the other. Internet Porn Nearly Ruined His Life. Now He Wants to Help. 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov’s 1887 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner’s daughter. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Still, even with this novel’s flaws, White remains an important writer in both his fictional and confessional tales of his own fraught era. Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The authors quote psychotherapist Marty Klein who, in response to the popularity of celebrity sex confessionals, pointed out that perhaps we have an “addiction to Tiger Woods’ ‘sex addiction.’ Report: Sex addiction is B.S. 2013-02-06T22:53:00Z Several titles come from the depths of that confessional. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Their aim is to serve society as a whole, rather than their own narrow confessional self-interest. The weakness of the religious left: How progressive evangelicals ceded moral authority to the right wing 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z One senses just a bit of double-dealing in this larger confessional: Look at these things that were once considered freakish, and now enjoy the freak show. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Babitz’s 1972 “confessional novel,” long out of print and newly reissued, looks back on her youthful misadventures in Los Angeles, including at Hollywood High, where she was brainy but bored. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z She’s revered by literary critics and her peers for her spare, direct and confessional verses. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Unlike the cluttered, unconvincing pop of her first two records, it presents Presley in semi-acoustic confessional mode, exorcising her demons - from relationships to religion - in frank detail. Lisa Marie Presley: Why I left LA 2012-10-19T06:49:01Z It is confessional, but it’s more than that. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z Fabienne is wrapped up in her own image and is in denial over her fading legacy, while Lumir claims her mother’s confessional book is riddled with lies. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Truth’ and Jim Jefferies 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Gay: I tend to not like essays that are merely confessional, without any sort of forward progress, without any sort of catharsis or just, direction. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Her vision of musicals extends from sumptuous golden-age lyricism through “Phantom of the Opera”-style rock belting to contemporary confessional intimacy, though she’s also unafraid of astringency, complexity and moments of plain noise. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Not long ago she was playing confessional piano music in tiny New York rooms. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z She was a confessional artist then and she is now, moving between installation, drawing and the performance that is Emin. The best visual arts in spring 2011 2011-04-05T18:59:01Z Yet Rich’s poems weren’t so much confessional as they were polemical. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z At times, the endless recrimination is a bit wearing; but Reiss combines sardonic observation with confessional honesty. Review 2010-07-20T23:05:00Z Ryan, 37, moved to London in 2008 and is now a familiar face on British television, known for a comedy style that is both merciless and confessional. A Sitcom for Families With ‘Funny Shapes’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z She was powerful and direct in business meetings, but playful, disarming, even confessional one-to-one. No sex, please, we’re colleagues – the new rules of office romance 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Pinegrove’s first three albums — which nestled vivid emo confessionals in soothing roots arrangements — were impressive and sometimes stellar models of communion. Pinegrove Reckons With the Past and Renovates Its Sound 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The verse is lucid and intimate without being confessional. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z Even when Halsey returns to first-person through most of the album, their lyrics are less confessional, more general, as if they have stepped back from immediate conflicts. Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Best of all: confessional stories that relate to the she spent years making up. Anakana Schofield: how to publicise a novel 2013-07-25T14:01:00Z Photograph: Chris Arnade for The Guardian The breakfasts are emotional, inspirational and chaotic, a result of the weekly confessionals from people who have a lot to confess. My heroin addict friend: thrown in jail, a rebound in rehab – now Shelly has hope 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z If so, consider the comment section your confessional booth ... Have men got the guts to enter the Twilight zone? 2010-06-24T13:10:00Z Illustrating a long, confessional caption with a personal snap is a kind of sleight-of-hand. From sponsors to socialism: the return of Instagram star Essena O'Neill 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The hard part was convincing herself that she should add another memoir to an already crowded market of confessional autobiographies. Texas Monthly: Shawn Colvin Releases ‘Diamond in the Rough,’ a Memoir 2012-06-10T00:54:23Z Much of the piece has an informal, confessional quality that will be catnip to some viewers. "The Sunset Limited": How to turn Cormac McCarthy into bad TV 2011-02-10T15:55:00Z Everything feeds a genius blend of confessional and observational comedy. Review: Mike Birbiglia Has a ‘New One.’ It’s Funny Until It Isn’t. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The same could be said for Facebook updates, our contemporary confessional. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z I couldn’t decide if it felt more like a library carrel, a peep show or a confessional. Slurping Solo, in Sweet Isolation, at Ichiran in Brooklyn 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Even in this late age of habitual self-exposure, the term “confessional” can still induce critical contempt, and Olds’s work has often been held up as an example of the genre’s more extreme disclosures. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It begins with the autobiographical “Hands of Time,” whose sound is patient, poetic, confessional, candid. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Her tunes were catchy and confessional, great favourites at an event called Way Out West where Marling was a regular, and decent enough to get her a deal with Virgin. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z As a host, Brown frequently leans into poignant subjects with a mix of humanity and profanity, deploying the kinds of confessional stories to which her audience is accustomed. Brené Brown Is Rooting for You, Especially Now 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z It includes spoken word artist George The Poet, raucous rock act Wolf Alice and confessional songwriter Soak. BBC Sound of 2015 longlist revealed 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Be it with a harrowing confessional or a wealth screed, Meek’s fervent energy radiates from every song and performance. Review | Meek Mill’s sold-out show at the Anthem burned with ardor 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s not so often that you hear such a confessional quality: Give space for that when you listen to it. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The personal meets the political, or vice versa, confessional and capacious all at once. In 'Wide Awake,' Suzanne Lummis gathers the poets of Los Angeles 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The risk of a confessional concert like “Voigt Lessons” is that a much-admired, beloved artist will tell fans more than they want to know. Music Review: Diva?s Struggles and Songs, Shared With Candor 2011-07-31T21:55:47Z The work that’s interesting to me in other people is really confessional. Lena Dunham Interview, Part Two: The Personal Factor 2012-04-13T14:13:57Z “Admissions,” as that pun of a title suggests, is a kind of confessional, except that no forgiveness is offered, or deserved. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z One of the higher echelons of praise for confessional essays is that they mimic the experience of listening to your best friend. This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Her recently released debut, “Heart On My Sleeve,” is packed with searing and confessional tunes -- the album opens with her singing about bipolar disorder on the punchy, liberating lead single, “Secrets.” 20 questions with Mary Lambert 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The show, a raw confessional on the highs and lows of the life of the retired heavyweight and tabloid target, made its debut in April at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ex-boxer Mike Tyson to take a bite out of Broadway 2012-06-18T18:10:09Z His fans partake in his confessional style too, often revealing their own struggles to the comedian after shows. Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias, a social (media) sort of guy, gets a film 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The source material is a full-tilt confessional characterizing the vicissitudes of anxiety and depression — not exactly the kind of thing obviously complemented by beats from a successful pop producer. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z If anything, it’s formally more complex and denser intellectually, if far less confessional. Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’ Doubles Down on the Comedy of Contradiction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The public’s obsession with confessionals risks lowering our standards for storytelling and making us largely blind to language. Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Today’s confessional, cathartic TV has entered that room, with its bright light and reflective surfaces within which nothing can be hidden, and utilised it. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldman’s book is still winceably clunky in its “Me Generation” confessional style, but Mr. Sondheim’s score has seldom seemed more psychologically penetrating or more astutely edged in the dissonance of desperation. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “Labyrinth” combines Mr. Dendy’s confessional speeches with dance, video and Heather Christian’s feisty and imaginative songs. Mark Dendy’s ‘Labryinth,’ a Take on the Theseus Myth 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In this age, when it has become fashionable to write a confessional essay when you eat a bad oyster, Norm offered not a peep about his illness. Perspective | Norm Macdonald was Tolstoy in sweatpants. Even when he texted you in the middle of the night. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z ABC's literate, erudite pop always hit home because it was also patently sincere: there were real heartstrings being twanged in archly confessional pop hits such as Tears Are Not Enough. ABC – review 2012-12-19T15:23:47Z As a catalog of male pathology, it made me laugh, at times uncomfortably, but part of its power was that it also seemed confessional. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z She said that the craving for anonymous self-expression was nothing new, pointing to the confessional booth in some churches as an example. Tell Me What I Don’t Want to Hear 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z His drawings could be rambling, confessional diaries or coolheaded inventories, trial runs or elegant summations. Art Review: Dan Flavin, Light Sculptor, in Another Medium at the Morgan 2012-02-23T22:36:10Z One of the "Young British Artists" who burst onto the art scene in the 1990s, Emin is renowned for her provocative and confessional art. Tracey Emin neon lights up 10 Downing Street 2011-08-21T11:53:09Z "Always come back to you/ There is no substitute/ No one does what you do", Ango coos, this sultry confessional starting like a spaced-out slow-jam until a garage interlude bounces in. Seduction playlist: get jiggy with these tracks 2012-11-09T13:15:00Z Common across all these examples is that it is women who use the royal confessional to reveal their experiences. Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview: why "royal confessionals" threaten the monarchy 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z English, mostly, although Latin phrases rolled off his tongue effortlessly. One went away from an hour’s discussion as if exiting the confessional after a session with the monsignor. Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z As a historian and a novelist, neither of us is especially adept at the confessional mode; it’s possible that we take pains to avoid it. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z When Emma surprises her one morning in confessional communion with the microwave, Shelley sheepishly explains that the timer helps keep her devotions reliable. ‘Grand Concourse,’ by Heidi Schreck at Playwrights Horizons 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It's clear but not explicit, intimate but not confessional. The Late Middle Clases; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Competitors mud-wrestle for “immunity” prizes on grassy quads and do confessional interviews in dorm rooms and lounges — all while remaining bogged down in the usual obligations: school, work, relationships, extracurriculars. Meet the super-obsessed college students making their own low-budget ‘Survivor’ 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Rooftop bends Father Lux’s ear enumerating his sins until Father Lux has to remind him it’s a confessional, not a “conversational.” Review: A Raucous Wake for ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Photograph: Writer Pictures Photograph: Getty My focus through most of college was "confessional female poets" with an emphasis on those who had committed suicide. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z All great stand-up is the expression of a personal voice, no matter if it’s from a confessional, observational or prop comic. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z Nearly all the dialogue is taken sl-o-o-o-w, as are many of the confessional songs. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z He also sets the tone in interviews — warm, gracious but never confessional or uncontrolled. Is there life after ‘MMMBop’? Hanson — yes, that Hanson — turns 25. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Sara and Tom also deliver probably my favorite joint confessional of the episode as Tom shakes out the tricks "up his sleeve." "Top Chef: World All Stars" elevates the best of London's classic pub dishes 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z I would also write very confessional, personal lyrics, and I was getting a little older and more mature and wanting to value my privacy a little more. She Tackled Aristotle in an Opera. Next Up: Medieval French Couplets. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z It is set up as a nervous confessional between the title character — so named to preserve his anonymity — and the audience, as he waits to testify. Theater Review: ?James X? by Gerard Mannix Flynn - Review 2011-12-10T00:21:41Z Here I am, back at the confessional at last. Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The album, released on Third Man Records, Jack White’s tastemaking label, blends Ms. Price’s gripping confessionals with rootsy melodies that sound as well worn as a 45 single playing on a jukebox. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “While I’m here being all confessional, I guess I just have a sudden urge to say something that I’ve never really been able to air in public,” she said. The TV Watch: Jodie Foster Lifts a Veil at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T23:02:55Z But Ms. Mitchell’s perspective rises above the narrowly personal; she’s not writing confessionals or self-absorbed reveries. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z For an author with a creative writing degree and brain whose operating system was synchronized by confessional poetry and Bob Dylan lyrics, this tech terminology was gibberish. A Zoom of one's own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z And he shared his thoughts on the backdrop of the confessionals, which now bathe the women in amber light. Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z That freedom often fostered a confessional, stream-of-consciousness style that now looks like a forerunner of personal blogging. Anatomy of a Zine: When Magazines Go Indie 2011-09-03T20:00:00Z When the confessor reprimands her for her vulgar speech, Maureen replies, “You’re crosser about my language in the confessional than you are about the fact that I killed a man.” ‘The Glorious Heresies’: A nasty world of faith and vice in 21st-century Ireland 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s also one of the great modern romantic melodramas, as well as a clear, confessional view of Portugal’s troubled political history—and of the price of progress. Movie of the Week: “Tabu” 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Rather than writing for conventional performers, Mr. Lang enlisted four classically trained artists busy in alternative-pop circles, where the confessional spirit of Schubert’s lieder is found most readily, he asserted. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z Her style mixes straightforward language and confessional frankness with sudden disjunctures and imagines mundane scenes into which strange images intercede. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But the writings here reflect the Mr. Carter we know: boastful and painfully confessional, sanctimonious and callous, insightful and un-self-aware. Books of The Times: From Seat of Power, Battling Many Crises 2010-09-26T22:18:00Z Accordingly, people treat the frame of his film like a confessional, divulging secrets with intimate abandon, reveling in the privacy one can sometimes only find in public spaces. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Set apart in time and place, father and son each carry a microphone and address the audience in alternating confessional monologues. Review: In ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,’ Missed Connections 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Just this year the museum bought a fantastic painting by Luis de Morales of Christ carrying the Cross, his tormented body light against dark, like a candle in a confessional. Art Review: Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations 2012-12-13T23:11:46Z Both directors were married to actresses; each movie in its way acknowledged the filmmaker’s absent wife, expressing a sort of confessional misogyny. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Lambert recently released her debut full-length album, the confessional “Heart on My Sleeve,” on Capitol Records. Jingle Ball to light up Moore Theatre | Concert preview 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Will the network air behind-the-scenes footage from the Top 12 hanging around and recording confessionals, like on other reality shows? More changes on "American Idol" being considered 2010-12-08T03:49:00Z If that sounds confessional, it may well be. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z These magazines were just part of Fass' empire, which included sweaty-men's mags, lurid confessionals and other sorts of garbage. Comics: Ding dong! The Code is dead 2011-02-02T00:20:12Z Instead, Fontaine was exasperated—perhaps because he did not wish to be pigeonholed as a mere ghostwriter, or perhaps because of the confessional nature of the lyrics that he’d written about his daughter. Pardison Fontaine and the Plight of the Ghostwriter 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Filmed at Temple University in a dark studio that resembles both a confessional and a laboratory, the documentary considers one young woman’s reactions to videos of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ‘The Viewing Booth’ Review: Do You See What I See? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The rapper moved effortlessly between party anthems and confessionals, spitting at one point, “She used to laugh at my jokes,” as if a tear might fall down his face. Chance the Rapper brings seismic show to WaMu 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “You can’t have a successful marriage without being a good listener,” Jay says in a confessional. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z Featuring searingly confessional interviews with six former chiefs of the shadowy security service Shin Bet, "The Gatekeepers" portrays the 46-year-old West Bank occupation and Jewish ultranationalism as threats to Israel's survival. Israel's Oscar bid discomforts Netanyahu government 2013-02-21T12:08:43Z Though Sinéad divulges little out loud, the novel is intensely confessional; her mind is always “busy, like an insect.” Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z We received a variety of answers, including works by a Booker Prize winner, a confessional rapper and a global optimist. ArtsBeat Blog: Editors and Critics Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 2011-12-09T22:28:27Z Titles projected on the back of the stage suggest various aquatic themes, but little connects the endless procession of tap dancing, swimming, scenes of self-harm and confessional monologues. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Following the debate Twitter also became a confessional for people who, like I did, turned to the self-help industry, including Williamson’s writings, and found a measure of comfort in that realm. America's curious political awakening to Marianne Williamson 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z In this work of semi-fictionalized memoir, the celebrity known to the public wrestles with both his memories of his father as well as himself, with a specificity bordering on the confessional. Facing facts: how memoir movies are finally showing the ugly truth 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It sounds like your writing process has a therapeutic or confessional quality to it. Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan on their 'brutally honest' rom-com 'Catastrophe' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Notaro became famous for a set that was something of an anomaly in her career, far more confessional and straightforward than her usual work. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Depressed and angry, he painted quick, small pictures in his East Village walk-up, smoked a lot of pot, cruised local parks and kept an obsessively confessional diary. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z The story is inverted, less a confessional, more remembered by its precocious casualty. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The novelist Louise Erdrich owns the tiny Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, a store that uses a chunk of its limited space to display an elaborately carved confessional box. Ann Patchett’s Guide for Bookstore Pilgrims 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z “You’re this close with a person for a year, it’s like a confessional,” Ms. Hicks said. Sheila Hicks’s Tapestries to Again Hang at Ford Foundation 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The conclusion of "Shadow" is a poignant and confessional admission of a man trying to find a new sense of family. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z She narrates, in a long, searingly confessional recitative, how Don Giovanni stole into her room, how she took him for Ottavio, how she fought him off, and how the killing occurred. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Some of these are confessional and quite dark, yet few resonate. In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s just you and her — or him — eyeball to eyeball, in a closed, red space the size of a confessional. Review: ‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The song receiving the response treatment here is Drake's drunken confessional Marvin's Room, which was released in June as a teaser for his forthcoming second album. New music: Jhene Aiko ? Do Better Blues Pt 2 (Marvin's Room) 2011-07-13T12:20:36Z He began making a name for himself as a slightly goofy but confessional voice on the stand-up circuit, culminating in an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” in 2010. Pete Holmes of ‘Crashing’ Finds Humor in His Church Roots 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Officialdom on both sides of the world emerge badly, alongside the often menacing supporters of the Christian Brothers and other organisations that have attempted to sweep their despicable deeds under the carpeting of the confessional. Oranges and Sunshine ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:00Z It’s startling to see Carey, usually volubly chatty, weighing her words so carefully in the confessional and draining them of their typical backspin of askew wit. Review: Mariah's World Tarnishes a Perfect Image 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The cathartic nature of her output also seems to chime with the confessional side of social networking. Kristin Hersh 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z Davies had already acquired a reputation in experimental circles with his confessional short film trilogy – Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration – which had taken him almost a decade to complete. Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill 2012-11-16T10:00:00Z Bobby is a recovering alcoholic who relies on fire-department regimen and weekly visits to the confessional booth to keep him on the straight and narrow. Review | Ryan Murphy’s ‘9-1-1’ doesn’t feel much like a Ryan Murphy show 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Theater fans here will finally get their introduction with this intimate work — it would fit quite nicely in a Fringe festival — about a cabdriver who seems to have incredibly talkative and confessional passengers. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z If that confessional quality puts Marina and the Diamonds in slightly different company than last time around, don't assume that Diamandis has lost her interest in the theatrical side of show business. Marina and the Diamonds' new intimacy bears 'Froot' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Through a secret elevator in the confessional, she descends into a surreal warren of basement workrooms, strewn with the slumped bodies of androids or humans, or both. “Westworld,” Episode 9: Brother, Can You Spare a Time Line? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z In her first ever confessional in Season 1, Episode 1 of "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," Barlow explicitly notes her love for fast food. $60K rings, Diet Coke and fast food: The dichotomous tastes of "Real Housewife" Lisa Barlow 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z And then comes the reliable nut graf–about how she’s changed, chastened by her stint as the poster girl of confessional culture and eager to slough off any lingering notoriety. “Bring it sad sick dudes”: Emily Gould isn’t sorry about anything 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Nor does she quite grant us the confessional reckoning we wish Jacob would finally give his daughter. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A Caravaggio-like light shining on his russet-gray beard, Father James sits in a confessional when the voice of a penitent cuts through the scrim. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He asked me to forgive him, as if I was a priest in a confessional.” Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s not confessional; I doubt he has much to confess. Books of The Times: ‘Alien vs. Predator,’ a Book of Poetry by Michael Robbins 2012-05-23T21:30:10Z Shanann’s incessant social media updates, her video confessionals and text messages with her husband form the central material of the film’s narrative. ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Review: Tragedy Reconstructed 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z But really New Year’s Eve is a confessional, a way to scrape off the muck of the year that’s ending with loud music, maybe some libations and a collective sense of relief and exultation. Pop Music Choices for New Year?s Eve 2011-12-29T23:59:04Z Among the highlights are a cross and a confessional that were developed out of works made for a chapel project a decade ago, as well as two tapestry spiders perched on metal legs. Rare Louise Bourgeois Works on Display In Zurich 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Given all the lying she does at the poker table, writing confessional pieces has been a welcome change. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Rodrigo became 2021′s biggest breakout star with her confessional debut album, breaking chart records and racking up awards and nominations. Olivia Rodrigo named Woman of the Year by Billboard 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z She still had her Instagram following, which included a new set of women drawn to her long, confessional captions about life after death and divorce. What Happens When a Weddings Influencer Gets Divorced? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z You had mentioned earlier about your dad and you had had that wonderful confessional after your win about that dream you had had. "I feel absolutely relieved": "Top Chef: World All-Stars" champ on the road to making TV history 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Enclosed with the rocks are confessional notes blaming the rocks for such situations as IRS audits, divorces and job losses. In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z He even adopts the song structures of “son,” with its repeated lines, and his lyrics, while humorously confessional in the best American folk-rock vein, have a touch of Latin imagery to them. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z The man is so clever everything is a kind of Derridean deconstruction and everything a woman writes is confessional? Siri Hustvedt 2011-03-25T07:00:00Z The fact that her stories became somehow less resonant was surely because she had helped to open the door to a series of confessionals about bad and difficult women doing bad and difficult things. 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “I feel like this glass confessional box culture we’ve suddenly found ourselves in is so insidious.” 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The standard, modest, one-man confessional here becomes a grand hybrid. Review: ‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z In the first half Ruby Wax, accompanied by singer-pianist Judith Owen, offers a confessional cabaret about the conditions that led to her mental illness. Ruby Wax: Losing It ? review 2011-02-25T19:34:08Z The confessional book itself, on which the movie was based—and in which Israel cites and discusses these fraudulent works of her authentic artistry—provides a fascinating nonfiction view of these fictions. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Is she giving us enough of a connection to the teasingly confessional songwriter she was before? Listening to Taylor Swift's ‘1989' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Some of these small essays are autobiographical, others confessional. Books of The Times: ?Draw It With Your Eyes Closed,? Edited by Paper Monument 2012-03-29T16:33:22Z Their halting conversations and touchingly described moments of connection turn into all-out confessionals and then – perplexingly for the narrator – gaping disconnection. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z A paradoxical and vitally overflowing character emerges: a compassionate moralist with vast appetites, a raucous public performer whose confessional candor had a nearly religious purity. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The two confessionals were resurfaced and repainted their original darkest green. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Meant to be confessional, the interview is guarded and excruciating. Theater Review: ‘She Is King’ Focuses on Turning Points for Billie Jean King 2014-01-15T03:00:01Z His trebly, confessional voice steps deliberately on its own cracks, and he treats his gut-level lyrics with care. Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The songs have the intimate, confessional quality of secrets whispered in private. The Week in Arts: Clairo, John Cage and Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z This special, his first in a decade, is more searching and confessional than his previous work, digging into the end of his marriage after 16 years. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The other thing is that whenever women write autobiographically, we are told that we are confessional. How They Learned to Drive. And Why They’re Driving Again. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z This works wittily in one particular scene where the Duchess's Cardinal brother contrives to cavort with his mistress through the iron grille of the confessional. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z Erstwhile franchises like “The Real World” even incorporate footage from a so-called “confessional”: cast members are beckoned into a small room filled with throw pillows, and asked probing questions by an offscreen producer. A Rapper Goes to Therapy, on Camera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “Nirbhaya” is not, I hasten to add, a confessional public forum, or not only that. Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “But in the scene, she says something about being alone, and it was almost confessional because it was so true to what I had experienced.” The Conners Return to Confront the Coronavirus 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z There is more here than just a series of well-executed confessionals, however. Best albums of 2012, No 1: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z In a confessional interview with Pitchfork, Björk spoke about heartbreak, creating the new album, motherhood and most strikingly what it’s like to be a woman in the music industry. Björk on being a woman in music: “Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times” 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z No one would accuse Gary Hume’s paintings of being confessional or revealing. Gary Hume Loves His Mother. His Art Is a Valentine to Her. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The confessionals in this place must be standing room only. Review: Sinfulness and Scares Behind ‘The Devil’s Doorway’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Familiar odes to riches and sexual prowess are tempered by songs like “Showers,” from her recent album “Jp3,” a confessional self-portrait about the challenges of letting one’s guard down. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Aside from offering gentle encouragement, Shibata occasionally adopts a confessional tone. Japanese woman is bestselling poet ? aged 99 2011-01-26T12:33:17Z Previously, behind-the-scenes confessionals were more the purview of tabloids, an unsavory side effect of fame to be avoided at all costs. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The confessional skyrocketed her out of her niche community and into the mainstream. From sponsors to socialism: the return of Instagram star Essena O'Neill 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “Stuck with just weed and no friends,” she laments on the buoyant track, which balances a confessional tone with self-deprecating humor. SZA’s ‘Ctrl’ Bonus, and 8 More New Songs 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z “The only time that’s appropriate is in a Catholic confessional. ‘What do you mean is there anything else? John Oliver blasts the U.S. bail system for locking up poor people regardless of guilt 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Dendy, who plays Theseus, combines confessional speeches with dance, video and Heather Christian’s feisty and imaginative songs. Theater Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Robyn’s writing process is designed to wring out truths: Mr. Ahlund described it as a series of “very intimate, open and sort of confessional conversations.” How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet by these confessional moments, he is taken in, prompted to wonder if the “ideas we associate with Frank Lloyd Wright” are not “wrong, have long been wrong, or at least not wholly correct?” Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Since 2009, Showalter has been making quiet and emotional folk music, beginning with Leave Ruin, a confessional yet ambiguous record born out of a bad breakup and a house fire. REVIEW: The Musical Reinvention of Strand of Oaks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Mike's final entry in his confessional Outdoor Man vlog was anything but. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The musical gifts her a late confessional, “Stay On Top.” ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z And combines that with business confessional, craftsmanship, C.G.I. burning vehicles, wastelands, random smokestacks and 13 garments enshrined in video shorts by Nick Knight that suggest, variously, the sphinx, eagles, aliens and warrior queens. London Fashion Week Gives Good TV 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z I’ve done one-person shows that are much more confessional and really personal. Demetri Martin: Comedy’s Renaissance man 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Always intended for eventual publication, the journal eschews soul-searching and avoids anything overtly confessional. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Her 2012 breakout album, “Quarantine,” put her voice front and center for a set of quivering, confessional electronic songs. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Her confessionals are paired with clips captured by fans who followed the project in real time, sharing how their online community sustained them through periods of hardship. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Beyonce, dressed in a black, priestess-like robe, watches silently from a pulpit and later sits listening on the other side of the confessional screen. Jay-Z 'confesses' to Beyonce in 'Family Feud' music video 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Rowland’s current single, the centerpiece of her set, is her confessional “Dirty Laundry.” Music Review: Kelly Rowland and The-Dream at the Best Buy Theater 2013-05-31T22:04:52Z The comedy is situational and confessional, the flat one-liners mixed in with more memorable physical comedy. ‘Wine Country’ Review: Searching for Laughs in a Midlife Bacchanal 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Sivan, 20, is a singer and an actor, as well as a producer of confessional YouTube videos — almost four million people subscribe to his YouTube channel. Review: Troye Sivan Sings, and His Fans Swoon 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In a culture dominated by reality TV and weepy confessionals, his story makes for ideal back-flap material. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z The label 'confessional' makes me alarmed because although my writing is confessional, I think you have to write something that's structured and is an attempt at art, even if it's not a successful attempt. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z If not for his verbal charm and his self-deprecating confessional streak, readers would likely join many of the characters in the book in despising Orme. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z That’s maybe not such a high bar to clear in this confessional, self-obsessed age, but for a woman in the 15th century? Review: In ‘The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,’ a Comically Restless Mystic 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z A combination of still lifes and closely cropped self-portraits, all of which were hand-woven by the artist on a loom, evoke both the confessional nature of diary entries and the careful crafting of memoir. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In the 13 years since the group’s breakthrough debut, “Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?” its glamorous singer, Emily Haines, has grown only more helplessly, brutally confessional about her own foibles. Pop & Rock Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He brings an emotional intensity to his confessional scenes that’s persuasive, but you still wish Danny would pull himself together so we could move on. Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids 2010-03-15T05:35:00Z She says elsewhere that “women have been denied all access to the a-personal,” and that it seems the “straight female ‘I’ can only be narcissistic, confidential, confessional.” This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Tsang’s artwork is not overtly personal or confessional; but the feelings of outrage and inequality are clear. Tsang Kin-wah Channels His Outrage in a New Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Although he’s certainly written his share of confessional tracks over the years, he feels he’s graduated from needing to do that all the time. Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z But again, Block was under no obligation to include those scenes in the finished film, and the naked confessional honesty of "The Kids Grow Up" is what redeems it in the end. "The Kids Grow Up": Invading your daughter's privacy to make a film 2010-10-27T01:02:00Z But in the introduction, you say that you’re “not in the business of confessional fiction” and that this story turned into a horror story instead. Stephen King, Not Just the Guy Who Makes Monsters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z From his 1920s apprenticeships until his death in 1983, he traveled worldwide, proselytizing for traditional, handmade ceramics and writing confessional diary entries and letters to his family. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z Ms. Collins is indeed not only confessional, but also confrontational. A Chat Room of Their Own 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Among taxi drivers, the cab was often referred to as a confessional on wheels. People opened up in the privacy and anonymity of the back seat. “I’d like it if you’d go back to the hotel with me”: My life as a female cabbie 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z As a confessional forum for dysfunctional and dispossessed Americans, Mr. Springer’s show may have since been eclipsed by the semi-scripted melodramas of reality television. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “Even if it’s not exactly something that happened to me, the songs tend to be a little more confessional or a little bit more first-person,” he said. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady on ?Clear Hearts, Full Eyes? 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z Through an epic assembly of often poignant stuff runs a confessional thread, as the artist narrates his journey through the world of modern art, between Africa and Europe and back again. The anti-museum flinging open its doors 2013-07-01T15:51:36Z He's one of the great rock'n'roll personalities of recent years: needy, confessional, sardonic, lovable – his voice wraps you up in a warm golden fleece and rolls you in space dust. Other Voices – review 2013-04-09T16:59:39Z By turns elusive and confessional, Ms. Weldon liked to say she divided her life into two segments. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Even as I’m describing what this sort of reckoning would look like on television — uncomfortable confrontations, on-air confessionals, a group-therapy session or two — it sounds awful. Perspective | Sean Spicer doing the cha-cha is the ‘civil discourse’ we deserve in a broken 2019 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The shop is a bit contentious, with lots of references and confessionals to Tom's spending habits. "Top Chef: World All Stars" meets "Downton Abbey" for an elevated picnic Mrs. Patmore would hate 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, Christine, who volunteers at a children’s hospital, does puppet shows for the young patients—but, as her own troubles overwhelm her, the shows take on a psychodramatic and confessional air. Why Dramatize an On-Air Suicide? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Intimate confessional, openhearted embrace, mercenary catalog of hip- hop’s future: Drake’s concerts are many things at once. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z Pain and Glory, then, is an old man’s confessional. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Though Glück lays bare the most intimate moments of longing and loss, these poems are not what we think of as confessional. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z To me the word 'confessional' is problematic because it connotes a kind of over-sharing or perhaps unconsidered sharing. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Not to worry; all will be embraced by a cheap and not-so-cheerful aesthetic that genuflects to reality television with direct-to-camera confessionals and narrative holes that the viewer is forced to fill in. Movie Review: ‘Absence’ Is Jimmy Loweree’s Found-Footage Debut 2013-07-04T21:17:08Z Neither Cohn nor Rothbart, the restless, confessional writer best known as co-creator of Found Magazine, hide their affection for their subjects. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z “I would never ordinarily be that confessional, and when I first got onstage, it took me a moment to surrender,” he said. Kiefer Sutherland Returns. This Time the Oval Office Is His. 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z “Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even ... paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity” to show “the way trauma works on us.” New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s more usually conceived either as one of Elgar’s most confessional works, or as a goodbye to the Edwardian age and the king who reigned over it. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Du’s rapport with the audience, as he plays more than a dozen characters in 75 minutes, favors high-fives over confessional hand-wringing, in the manner of a neighborhood kid shooting the breeze. ‘Hong Kong Mississippi’ Review: The Bluesman Next Door 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Hitchens deplored the “collectivization of gaiety” at Christmas, the “compulsory bad taste,” the “long letters of confessional drool” that families mail. Review: Christopher Hitchens Expounds in ‘And Yet ...’ 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The culture had finally vindicated the kind of confessional work she had pioneered in the 1990s, so polarizing at the time. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z In fact, although it is fiction, “Fire Sermon” reminds me most of confessional poetry, the aim of which is uncompromising honesty and self-exposure. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Some seem trolled from a stream of anxious, determined, confessional, admonishing and resigned self-talk: "The crushing pressure to do something new fills me with abject terror"; "I would still say no to Gagosian." William Powhida, usually a force, has surprisingly thin show at Charlie James 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z And in confessional writing, a classification some might assign to Wild, that soul-baring quality generates a kinship with readers. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z And at the third, the one in the middle, he gets serious and confessional, talking about his struggle with depression, his fractured relationship with his father and more. Review: ‘Neal Brennan 3 MICS’ Comes at Comedy From Several Directions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The first season ended with Midge giving a triumphant, confessional standup set at a downtown club. Review: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Takes Its Time, as Fast as It Can 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z As does her confessional tone: among her many conquests, she asserts, were Warren Beatty and Paul Newman. Vicky Tiel?s 40-Year Career in Fashion 2011-08-19T23:04:30Z In conversation, she bounces between confessional and cagey. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It doesn’t hurt that the confessional aspect of standup directly aligns with the actor’s exploration of self — probably the most satirized aspect of acting school, along with warm-up exercises. ‘The World Goes Away’ and Other Lessons From Online Acting Class 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Right up front she differentiates "Unspeakable Things" from the confessional competition, declaring that her book "is not a cheesy instruction manual for how to negotiate modern patriarchy with a sassy wink and a thumbs-up." Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Desiree told me she was angry at the Staten Island boys for making fun of the older contestants, but she was “saving it all for the confessional on the island.” I’m not here to make friends 2013-03-02T00:30:00Z But if we think of the blues more broadly — as a confessional purge, as a sonic act of unburdening — we can hear it all around us. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And in “The Psychic Life of Savages,” she provided a sportive outing for a gaggle of famously strung-out confessional poets. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z How do you fight that sense of falsity when you include what might be called “confessional” material in your essays? Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The whole novel comes across in that wounded, confessional tone, the voice of a man so overwhelmed that he can barely contend with the ordinary diversions of life. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Whatever she sings acquires the fierce, confessional intensity of someone who barely lived to tell the tale. Bettye LaVette Performs Her Album ‘Worthy’ at Café Carlyle 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The tour has flourished because much of its music is confessional and intimate. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Accepting no such binary bifurcation, these passionate, polemical sexual confessionals make me exhale a breath I’ve been holding for 50 years. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Here are the 7 most Swift-y lines in Swift’s confessional essay: The 7 most Taylor Swift-y lines in Taylor Swift’s essay about the music industry 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z “Down in the Bottom,” the first track, is a chugging, Mark Knopfler-like confessional: “In case you’re wondering, it’s alive and well/That little habit that you left with me.” Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Though mannered and elliptical throughout, it’s more readable than those qualities usually herald, and in the end there’s something hypnotic about its stately, confessional prose. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z With various nods to Pirandello, Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn — the last a British playwright known for his ingenious manipulations of dramatic structure and timing — Posner turns the Milton into confessional way station. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z They, too, were the sort of events at which conversations were intensely confessional or naïvely philosophical, and goofy role-playing was rampant. Review: Visiting ‘Houseworld,’ and the Perils and Pleasures of Immersive Theater 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z They would rather wait 45 minutes for the confessional. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Characters routinely expose their innermost feelings to camera in talking head confessionals similar to the ones on shows like The Bachelor and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Another Period: behind the scenes of the Downton Abbey parody 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z For Lasch, the rising popularity of therapy and self-help — along with radical feminism, confessional writing, permissive parenting and the designated hitter rule — was itself implicated in the problem. Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z All these confessionals are described in public and social commentary as attacks on the royal family. Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview: why "royal confessionals" threaten the monarchy 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The confessional solo is a hallowed form downtown; Berlant desecrates it from every side. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Telling tales, hearing voices, bearing witness: These are the stocks in trade for Mr. Ritz, who has carved out a niche as a kind of hip American Boswell, a confessional bard of rhythm and blues. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z This included highly wrought confessional lyrics, long polysyllabic song titles, and the conjunction of hard, even thrash-derived sounds like a screamed chorus with much softer instrumental passages. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Accompanying herself on upright bass, Spalding concluded with a solo encore of "Precious," a tender, confessional ballad. Esperanza Spalding buoyant, upbeat, winning at Paramount 2012-04-25T17:07:04Z It's all part of a balance Couric is striving for on her new syndicated daytime show, "Katie," between sharing her experiences and turning her show into a personal confessional. Katie Couric opens up about battling bulimia 2012-09-24T19:49:08Z Mr. Rock’s best moments are monologues, confessional stand-up routines delivered to a life-size cardboard cutout of President Obama. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘2 Days in New York,’ Starring Julie Delpy and Chris Rock 2012-08-10T06:23:01Z Then there was an episode where it shows me crying in my confessional interview saying, “I want to be taken seriously, I don’t want to be just an inspiration” and I think about that too. The Blind Chef Triumphs: Christine Ha, MasterChef's Surprise Finalist, Talks Underdogs and Inspirations 2012-09-05T11:55:08Z Aiko built a cult following with deeply confessional yarns that include ethereal melodies and tightly wound raps. Grammys 2015: Jhené Aiko keeps her music in motion 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z |
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