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With great restraint, the song balances fragmented details (like the title itself) with glimpses of self-confession ("my misery, and how it lost me all I wanted"), leaving us to create meaning between them.
Ben Lear: Valentine's Day Soundtrack: Top 10 Indie Love Songs Ben Lear 2011
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The kind of a hybrid of faux documentary, fly-on-the-wall self-confession yields a satisfying result – amidst all the obvious artifice arises some pretty damning and hilarious truths on the human condition.
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While difficult and painful, such a self-confession would at least clear the clouds that currently obscure so much of the 'State Power' debate, opening the way for a credible SACP electoral challenge.
CONTENTS 2007
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While difficult and painful, such a self-confession would at least clear the clouds that currently obscure so much of the 'State Power' debate, opening the way for a credible SACP electoral challenge.
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Confessions obtained through these methods will be admissible to put a person to death, whether it is a self-confession, or evidence obtained by another coerced to name names.
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Confessions obtained through these methods will be admissible to put a person to death, whether it is a self-confession, or evidence obtained by another coerced to name names.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: There are accusations that this searing piece of self-confession is actually in large part a work of fiction.
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That 's enough for us -- self-confession, --- come, sir, we must deliver you into the hands of the next magistrate.
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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Society life in Holland is, as everywhere else, the gentle art of escaping self-confession of boredom.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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The room will gradually find itself, though it may take years and heartache and a certain self-confession of inadequacy.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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