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a long, usually serious spoken discourse that a character in a play delivers to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts
Hamlet's famous soliloquy
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Recent Examples of soliloquy
Since one page roughly equals one minute of screen time, a three-page monologue basically means a three-minute speech — which can feel like an eternity for an actor on camera giving a solo soliloquy.
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James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
There’s a bit of theatre to this process, in which a cast of supposedly regular people—cabdrivers, people in diners, truck drivers, elementary-school teachers—is paraded upon a stage so that each can deliver a soliloquy about the candidates and the state of the nation.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
Thomas Martine, a France saber fencer sitting behind me, went into a long soliloquy afterward, while wearing a French tricolor wig.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 28 July 2024
In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, dissolute Prince Hal has a curious soliloquy.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
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James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
There’s a bit of theatre to this process, in which a cast of supposedly regular people—cabdrivers, people in diners, truck drivers, elementary-school teachers—is paraded upon a stage so that each can deliver a soliloquy about the candidates and the state of the nation.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
Thomas Martine, a France saber fencer sitting behind me, went into a long soliloquy afterward, while wearing a French tricolor wig.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 28 July 2024
In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, dissolute Prince Hal has a curious soliloquy.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquy
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In a letter sent to football players and their families, Kelly Lara, an assistant district superintendent, said two incidents occurred involving racist speech made toward, and about, a Black teammate.Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Old trees also matter for climate change, as Biden noted in his Seattle speech.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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Murakami isn’t so much a novelist as a fictional anthologist, collating various monologues delivered by his characters; some of these are riveting narratives in their own right, but many simply serve to explain what’s going on or clumsily advance the plot.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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At points during his final pre-election end-of-episode monologue, Oliver seemed to be fighting back tears.Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson and Remington, handed over hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private data — without customer knowledge or consent — to the NSSF, which then entered the details into what would become a massive database.Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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Soho is rendered as a ganglia of lines leading to hundreds of names and their addresses.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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The museum also hosts workshops, lectures, and performances and is planning an exhibition on the workings of quantum physics for next year.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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The same goes for understanding culture—talk to your employees, ask them about their customs, have healthy discussions on differences and learn how to do it their way.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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David Heyman, who developed the films, was talks to do the same.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Soliloquy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquy. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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