But it is a poor understanding of confessional poetry that equates it with "simply reciting" one's "history."

In some scenes she achieves a certain credibility, but in others she is simply reciting lines.

Calls are voice-activated: the user simply recites the phone number aloud after pushing the main button to gain access to a carrier's network.

The boy was simply reciting the message.

Mombar has no menus; someone simply recites the choices.

You are fortunate to have reclaimed your life, it told him, its voice lacking any detectable inflection, as though simply reciting a cold fact.

In some cases, the narrator did not partake in the train journey, and simply recited the writing of that episode's producer.

But he also understood how Mulhall felt as a career scientist who wasn't always content to simply recite the readouts from her station's displays.

Mantras may form part of worship or people may simply recite them loudly or slowly.

When working alongside Howarth, Lozano never felt as though she was simply reciting lines.