Based on an enormously popular novel by Susanna Tamaro, the film is a dramatic confession of a passionate and turbulent life.

She heard the words ". . . after sobbing out his dramatic confession, Hickock emerged from the interrogation room and fainted in a hallway.

The hovering specter of death had a way of encouraging dramatic confessions and efforts at bargaining.

It might have continued had a prisoner on death row, Almond Nofomela, not made a dramatic confession on the eve of his execution on October 19, 1989.

Perhaps the most dramatic confession of failure was Mr. Krenz's highly publicized decision to sign, and urge his fellow citizens to sign, an appeal to save the country.

The priest had heard thousands of confessions since he had been ordained, but the dramatic confession of Frederick Stavros, followed by his death, had left an indelible impression.

Mari continued to glint at her, apparently expecting a dramatic confession.

Frequently the guilty party breaks down and makes a dramatic confession under pressure.

SINCE the release of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's dramatic confessions, moral outrage at the extent of his crimes has been mixed with doubts.

Totally in control, he makes a dramatic confession.