soliloquize

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Recent Examples of soliloquize Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye. Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023 Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022 Written by Vaiva Grainytė, scored by Lina Lapelytė and directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera, which won the top prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale, unfolds over five hours as various performers soliloquize about the adversities of climate change. Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices. Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing. Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquize
Verb
  • Mikko Rantanen spoke bluntly about Nichushkin, saying the quiet part out loud.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Local leaders were hesitant to speak at length about the congresswoman, wary of the perception that they would be seen as pressuring a reluctant candidate into running — which is how former Rep. Ron Dellums’ mayoral tenure is often remembered.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The music of jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava washes over the dining room as solicitous waiters recite the evening’s specials, their delivery unaffected by the thud of bombs falling on a neighborhood nearby.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • During his appearances Blair has been reciting positive poll numbers and defending a political operation that some Republicans have criticized for being too slow to build out a field program.
    Sophia Cai, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Oliveira films on location, with the actors in costume, declaiming in boldly theatrical tones that seem wrenched whole from the era of the play’s origins.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Ten minutes later, a few dozen people were crowding into 192 Books, on Tenth Avenue, to hear Grau declaim in a dead language.
    Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2024
Verb
  • The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
    Vulture, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
    Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • But by Obama’s second term in office, discourse about the importance of representation in media had intensified, and the show came under fire in 2013 for not featuring a Black woman cast member in five years.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Kiss or no kiss, Glen Powell is just happy fans care enough about Twisters to start discourse online.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
Verb
  • Ever since the October 7 attacks, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have sought to thread this needle by talking about their commitment to Israel’s defense while routinely haranguing Israel for its conduct of the war and pressuring the nation to operate with more restraint.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Doctors are being harangued for injury information that might be useful for gaining an edge in wagering.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • They even get lectured by parents for breaking rules — but that doesn't stop them from finding a spaceship buried in the nearby woods.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The whole thing reads as if it is being delivered by someone looking down over their glasses with their hands on their hips like a parent lecturing a child.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

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“Soliloquize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquize. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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