Sentences with phrase «written confession»

In writing his confessions, Augustine adopted and adapted an esoteric reading practice and provided one of the texts that would demonstrate and perpetuate this practice.

Accompanied by another set of three drawings, also abstract in form yet confessional in character; a small sculpture containing written confessions of people concealed with black ink; and a participatory drawing inviting visitors to write and then erase their own confessions, Sealed Confessions explores, as its title suggests, the act of confession as both a declaration of beliefs, intentions, and emotions and a call for privacy, confidentiality, and truth.

Writing the Confessions about a decade after the cataclysmic event that altered the rest of his long and productive life, Augustine gave his readers a detailed account of his conversion — an event intimately intertwined with hearing and reading.

When the novelist William Styron used his imagination to write The Confessions of Nat Turner, many voices were raised not only in disparagement of his novel but also against his even attempting to make the leap of races and conditions.

Todashev reportedly implicated Tamerlan in the triple murder, but attacked an FBI agent before he could sign a written confession.

This selectivity leads to a crucial irony of the genre: Written confessions are not in fact direct representations of the true person but are works of artifice, including and omitting details by design.

Writing the Confessions in his early 40s, he remembered schoolboy fears, a pear tree plundered, books that shaped his life, the death of his mother — all recalled as threads in a tapestry woven according to the inscrutable design of another.

On the basis of that distinction, one might write confessions of this sort: God was free to protect Israel of old from the freedoms of Pharaoh; and the continued existence of the Jewish people in the 20th century exhibits that same divine freedom over against all the human freedom - including that of Christians - which has been exercised in history to obliterate the Jews.

I hope this mom found peace in her feeding method whatever that may be and is enjoying feeding her baby more than she did when she wrote this confession.

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

The conviction was based mainly on inspectors determining the fire was intentionally set and a written confession that Rosario says he signed because he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and did not understand English.

In her written confession, the student claimed that another girl ordered her to put the note under the door to the assistant principal's office or she would get her friend to fight her.