11.   In fact, Hugo, whose only other admitted addiction is to golf, appears to be pursuing political salvation through public confession.

12.   In recent months, the judge in Port St. Lucie, Fla., Larry Schack, has structured many sentences to include a public confession.

13.   It was like a public confession.

14.   Jones and his wife, Karin, were separated weeks after his public confession in October and have filed for divorce, he said.

15.   Outpourings of all these revelations and all these public confessions tend to minimize your aura.

16.   The bishops plan to make public confessions at a service in January.

17.   The dark night of the soul has increasingly given way to public confessions on Oprah and Sally Jessy Raphael.

18.   There they were, trying to get their lives back together through public confession and mutual support.

19.   This printed public confession, no matter how heartfelt, does nothing to assuage my guilt at having turned my back on my Mac brethren.

20.   Escaping the furor over her public confession of adultery, Princess Diana arrived in Argentina on Thursday, seeking to boost her profile as a roving ambassador.