soliloquy
IPA: sʌɫˈɪɫʌkwi
noun
- (drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
- (authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.
verb
- (very rare) To issue a soliloquy.
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Examples of "soliloquy" in Sentences
- The expanded soliloquy just made it more obvious.
- It's the best soliloquy in the history of the show.
- He had her recite the famous sleepwalking soliloquy.
- The rest of the soliloquy provides the needed context.
- I certainly wouldn't view it as a part of the soliloquy.
- The brief chapter is devoted to Captain Ahab's soliloquy.
- In Molly Bloom's soliloquy, the robber cat has eaten the place.
- He had her recite the famous sleepwalking soliloquy in the nude.
- Second, the soliloquy about informed consent is entirely misplaced.
- Yakko recites the famed Hamlet soliloquy while Wakko digs and Dot translates.
- 1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne.
- “You speak a soliloquy as if you were on the stage, and seem to account me a cipher,” said the old admiral suddenly.
- The “to be or not to be” soliloquy is presented against a vast seascape where waves crash wildly into massive shoreline stones.
- Says Greenburg, noting the show also starred Brett Favre when his Hamlet-like soliloquy is once again being treated as news: "I'm happy with the show — an excellent show."
- The lengthy trumpet solo near the end, which the program notes advise is an orchestrated soliloquy from the opera on a John Donne poem, was only the most prominent example.
- She or he has a fundamental interest in its practicability, in fact his or her own identity and degree of self-awareness depends upon it: the conversation of soliloquy is "our sovereign remedy and gymnastic method" (84).
- He had a 400-word soliloquy that was all over the place, from supposed public puzzlement over some of the judge's decisions, a quip about the senator's son going to University of Pennsylvania, followed by the senator's recollection of speaking at Princeton.
- In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind.