Word: confessed
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...with any of my mother's emotional problems because I knew that they would embarrass her. She wasn't alive anymore, but still she was there in my head. But my editor said that I had to. I thought, "Well, hey, it's a memoir. All right. I'll confess she was bipolar." I felt bad about it. But you have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they're going or not be a writer...
...perhaps at the least, appreciative audiences will be encouraged to respond to those irritating subscription solicitations before there's nothing left to subscribe to. The Soloist's homage to the fading news business might be maudlin, but in the spirit of the movie's honesty, I confess I'd be about as likely to declare my own mother's funeral too sentimental...
...military coup leaders arrested several politicians and military officers in the capital Conakry, charging them with drug smuggling for the Colombian cartels. The late President's son Ousmane Conte - whom U.N. drug officials have long believed was involved in large-scale cocaine deals - went on national television to confess his involvement with his "Colombian friends...
...ever get any stories in which you felt the woman was at fault? Dubelman: Oh, sure. And the women are so great at confessing their own faults. There's a story in the book where the woman has sex in a bar bathroom. She absolutely knew that this was a crazy idea, the bathroom was dirty, it was not a nice place, she didn't even really want to do it. It was a horrible idea - and gross - but she's willing to confess that she did it. So you don't blame her for it, 'cause she says...
...entire genome, but as they get to know its parts better, they're getting a more precise comprehension of one of the most important features of evolution: how complex organs evolve. The notion that something as intricate as an eye could have evolved, Darwin wrote, "seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." But he argued that new complex organs could evolve through a series of intermediate forms...