The music seemed less a bludgeoning pronouncement than an affecting personal confession.

These works are often regarded as deeply personal confessions of his inner life during his dark times.

His quiet manner inspired personal confessions, and she wanted him to remember her.

Baptists baptize persons only after they make a personal confession of their faith in Christ.

The governor's frequent campaign refrain that "Faith changes lives" is not only a personal confession but a political platform.

This seems an appropriate point to insert a personal confession.

Allow me, if you will, to make a small personal confession.

In this context I must make a personal confession.

In my book club, for example, personal confessions are as routine as red wine and olives.

In an early commercial for a bank, people looked straight into the camera and made very personal confessions about themselves.