confessional

In the manner or style of a confession.

• The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.

Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism (sense 1).

• confessional community

A small room where confession is performed in private with a priest.

• The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
• In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.

A confession.

• When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional. “My daddy never had to whip me twice for t

A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.

• We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.”