Word: confessant
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...saturated with political overtones. Many of the film’s statements are melodramatic and obvious, like Bullock’s fight against a male-dominated system. The constant suggestion that the death penalty acts not as a deterrent to crime but as an incentive for criminals to confess is tasteless and unsupported, yet quietly backs up the film’s saccharine attempts to be a crowd-pleaser...
...BCC’s policy of mandatory confession is also subject to criticism. Members must confess all of their sins before they are allowed to be baptized by writing a letter to God stating all of their transgressions. Former members cite instances in which this information was shared by their disciplers with leaders and larger groups...
...confess that I didn’t think this team would get this far before the playoffs began. In fact, I wasn’t even confident that the Crimson would get past Brown in the first round...
...knowledge that one has nothing to say. I’ll have to footnote that. I never thought that 40–60 pages of text about English literature could so completely distract me from the real world. The Olympics went by (or are going by…I confess, I’m not sure if they’re done or not) in a blur; senior bacchanalia is nothing more than a few discarded e-mails and the faint notion that That Guy—a strange creature called the non-writer—seems hung over...
...from the strictly choreographed routines of the top teams. He skied weekends in Vermont, and weekdays on a deserted baseball field in his adopted hometown of Narbarth, Penn. In the summer, he cycled, used a Stairmaster, and played soccer and basketball with his university colleagues. He didn't confess his Olympic aspirations to them until days before he left for Salt Lake. "Of course not, he smiles shyly. "I thought most likely it would not happen...