interior monologue
noun
: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
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Look Who’s Talking, in which Bruce Willis voices the interior monologue of a wisecracking baby.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
The shiba inu is sometimes overlaid with ironic interior monologues in comic sans font, as the website KnowYourMeme points out, or photoshopped to take on different forms, such as a loaf of bread.
—Julian Mark, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
The shiba inu is sometimes overlaid with ironic interior monologues in comic sans font, as the website KnowYourMeme points out, or photoshopped to take on different forms, such as a loaf of bread.
—Julian Mark, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
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