“The confession made by the appellant on the morning of the murder, when he was calm, sober, and explicit, stands uncontradicted.”

“In any case, the expression of shame as well as the confession of the guilt of sin are identified by their close and confluent correspondences.”

“They favored the use of general absolution and found that the practice of private confession encouraged scrupulosity.”

“An eschatological vision of the world may offer an alternative way out of the impasse of provincialism and confessionalism.”

“He did yeoman service in breaking down the high Lutheran confessionalism which had been the order of the day.”

“It is self-generating in order to avert stagnation and constitutes a unifying force that transcends confessionalism.”

“The confessor listened intently as the parishioner poured out their sins during the confession.”

“A true confessor, she bravely stood her ground and professed her faith even in the face of severe persecution.”

“While they await the arrival of the man's confessor, a local Dominican friar, the brothers encourage him to acknowledge and repent for his sins.”

“A storyteller more than a confessionalist, Sharp admits she's been putting a bit more of herself into recent songs.”

“Although Loehe put the Lutheran confession above the others, he was nevertheless not a narrow-minded confessionalist but open to ecumenical developments.”

“I entered the confessional to lay bare my wrongdoings and seek absolution from the priest.”

“The ironic in this form is wilful innocence, just as the innocent sentimentality of the confessionary talk show is brute, cynical narcissism.”

“His confessionary comic takes its readers through the romantic struggles of a boy becoming a man in the late eighties.”

“Other times, characters reveal highly personal thoughts and feelings in a confessionary tone.”

“John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, mentions Grosseteste's struggle to create a similar device.”

“The following is the beginning of the Prologue from Confessio Amantis by John Gower.”

“Later in life his allegiance switched to the future Henry IV, to whom later editions of the Confessio Amantis were dedicated.”

“Conversely, a parti-coloured cross, fesse, or charge of any kind is allowable upon a plain field.”

“When they are disposed in a horizontal row across the centre of a Shield, Charges are in fesse.”

“Charges, not in fesse or in chief, that are disposed horizontally across the field are bar-wise.”

“How do we understand, not what is said between the confessor and confessant, but the dynamic that is produced between them?”

“In this case, the said confession was obtained during custodial investigation but the confessant was not assisted by counsel.”

“While this bond structures the confession as a dialogue, it also encourages, and sometimes manipulates, the intimacy, dependence, and abjection of the confessant.”

“Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.”

“My stateside imagination ran more cheaply toward TV reality programs and talk-show confessionals.”

“But I would suspect that this is one of those first person confessionals secretly disguised as a generalization-laden argument.”

“The forms and the photographs are there on exhibit, along with the confessions written in longhand and in great detail.”

“Or maybe he would prefer something along the lines of suicidal confessions of a mind bordering on death and raving lunacy.”

“The Crown in that case submitted that the confessions were rightly admitted and that the convictions were safe and satisfactory.”

“They are diarists, confessors, intimate chroniclers of their slightly repugnant lives.”

“His confessors told him that he would die in a state of sin because of his treatment of his ex-Queen, who was now living in Constantinople.”

“I can recall talk among my workmates about confession and confessors at a time when most of us were courting.”