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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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On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel had a more direct message in his monologue, making his own closing argument for the election.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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For his sixth outing as host, Mulaney performed a monologue that was extremely quick-moving, jumping from topic to topic, and that was notable for making absolutely no mention of the impending election.Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 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 city faces a deep political divide on key policy questions, such as the extent to which the large police budget should be preserved over other city services in upcoming budget talks.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The enhanced offer doesn't address a key sticking point in the contentious talks — restoration of pensions — but Boeing would raise its contributions to employee 401K plans.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Soliloquy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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