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  • One evening, as a waiter at one of these places was reciting a lengthy monologue of specials, I scanned the prices of entrees on the menu—$19, $29, $39, $49—and it occurred to me that I had seen that very same column of figures earlier in the day.†   (source)
  • The last words of Finny's usual nighttime monologue were, "I hope you're having a pretty good time here.†   (source)
  • From his position between Leon and Cecilia, Marshall took control of the conversation with a ten-minute monologue.†   (source)
  • Still, though, these monologues at dinner?†   (source)
  • ON THE WAY OUT to Brooklyn with a van full of furniture, Grisha kept up a steady monologue about on the one hand Hobie's fine qualities and on the other how he was running Welty's business into the ground.†   (source)
  • Then I hear him rustling in the branches all around us, muttering little curses under his breath, a monologue I don't quite follow.†   (source)
  • I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.†   (source)
  • One involved a dramatic verse monologue of a Chicana about to be arrested by the cops.†   (source)
  • When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community.†   (source)
  • The monologue became, iri fact, a duet as they lay down together, Denver nursing Beloved's interest like a lover whose pleasure was to overfeed the loved.†   (source)
  • The dialogues were in no way prayers but took the form of angry monologues which-just short of the point where they became aliatribes-became vigorous arguments with himself.†   (source)
  • My father would read to me from the great monologues during the long wagon rides between towns.†   (source)
  • In Nathaniel's high-anxiety monologue, she hears her brother's voice—the brother she thinks might be bipolar, though he's never been diagnosed as such.†   (source)
  • ...are in reality one long monologue.†   (source)
  • So, this would be a monologue, then.†   (source)
  • Alba watched her come and go about the room, her novitiate's nightgown floating out from her body and her hair freed from its bun, wrapped in the gentle fragrance of her clean clothes and Harem Cream and lost in an incoherent monologue into which she poured complaints about the price of vegetables, the litany of her various aches and pains, her exhaustion from trying to run the house by herself, and her poetic fantasies of Pedro Tercero Garcia, whom she would imagine among the clouds of sunset or in the golden wheatfields of Tres Marias.†   (source)
  • Feldman was referring to things like vocabulary and grammar and — most important — the structure of Emily's monologues.†   (source)
  • And no one had actually accused the Sharp Cereal Professor either, although comedians from Bob Hope to Steve Martin had taken potshots at him, and johnny Carson had run off an entire monologue — couched in careful double entendre — about the Red Razberry Zingers affair one evening during his opening spot on The Tonight Show.†   (source)
  • Very early in the morning she had ordered the car to take her to the nearby seminary burial ground, which in those days was called La Manga Cemetery, and as she stood in front of his crypt, she made peace with her dead husband in a monologue in which she freely recounted all the just recriminations she had choked back.†   (source)
  • For the first time since he began his monologue, the old man had managed to take Blomkvist by surprise.†   (source)
  • Beck, however, was in the habit of turning his monologues into scathing, Limbaughesque rants against bed-wetting liberals, and at one point that evening I made the mistake of disagreeing with him: in response to one of his comments I suggested that raising the minimum wage seemed like a wise and necessary policy.†   (source)
  • Mia stops her NYC monologue, reaches in for her cell phone, looks at the screen, and winces.†   (source)
  • Murray was in the midst of a thoughtful monologue.†   (source)
  • This spectacular stunt was followed by gunfire, explosions, and a deep, melodramatic voiceover and monologue: "When danger is its own reward, there are men who will go anywhere, dare anything.†   (source)
  • The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.—EVE ENSLER, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer†   (source)
  • He was away from the school for the yearly Shakespeare monologue competition.†   (source)
  • Hema could hear a sobbing monologue from the servant's quarters—the voice was Rosina's, though it was hoarse and sounded nothing like her.†   (source)
  • The voice droned on in its practiced monologue, peppered with sterile kindness.†   (source)
  • "A pizza parlor," I replied, pretty much stunned after his monologue topped off my last two days.†   (source)
  • In one second we will hear all about the great Ashanti empires; the great Songhay civilizations; and the great sculpture of Benin—and then some poetry in the Bantu—and the whole monologue will end with the word heritage!†   (source)
  • A switch seems to flip in her gut, starting a familiar internal monologue: she's been working like a slave her whole damn life and she never complains.... She's been killing herself, her lifeblood channeled through scriptural pieties and long-shot hopes for Cedric's future, leaving her own urges untended and volatile.†   (source)
  • Sarah nodded almost imperceptibly, and Maureen pressed on with the monologue that Sarah had practically memorized by now.†   (source)
  • I'd expected her to call and regale us with one of her typical monologues, full of stream-of-consciousness details, but instead she'd left a message-telling us about the win and that she was very pleased with it-that clocked in at under two minutes, which had to be a record for her.†   (source)
  • Only it was mostly a monologue.†   (source)
  • Was it a conversation if you were having a monologue in your own cell?†   (source)
  • The wrinkled pants are a stroke of genius, but a cunning detail in my master plan— Max hurled the wadded pants at Connor, who abandoned his monologue and fell back onto his bed.†   (source)
  • He was an actor on a stage, in the midst of a monologue he created, speaking words of wisdom to his chosen audience.†   (source)
  • The First Lady finishes her monologue with a reminder that she has immersed herself in the details of all renovations, past and present: "Piece by piece, the interior of the president's house was put back together.†   (source)
  • "No—" He starts to say that he is not hungry, that he is too tired to eat, but Berger is on his feet and heading for the door, and he stumbles along behind him, unable to voice a protest, down the stairway and out into the street, dragged along by the force and flow of Berger's monologue.†   (source)
  • Not like long monologues or anything, but enough that I've been able to create a picture in my head.†   (source)
  • Had his nap been interrupted by another incoherent monologue from his patient?†   (source)
  • "Tell me, if scribes value consistency so much," Alessandro interrupted, to stanch the monologue before Orfeo got on to the luminous sap, "then why not get one of those new machines, typewriters, and every letter will be exactly the same?"†   (source)
  • I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer.†   (source)
  • Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.†   (source)
  • I'll never forget the opening monologue of Gunsmoke, when the announcer would introduce "the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it."†   (source)
  • I snapped out of my internal monologue when I realized how disgustedly Claudia was looking at me.†   (source)
  • Letterman even made a joke about you in his monologue last night.†   (source)
  • Throughout Fareed's monologue, Gabriel managed to keep a placid, attentive smile fixed firmly on his face.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Like a mute in a monologue.†   (source)
  • I heard him do his monologue of Shakespeare—The Ages of Man.†   (source)
  • Death will find me long before I tire of contemplating an evening spent in his company during which he enthralled a mixed audience consisting of a fur trader, a Cree Indian matron, and an Anglican missionary, with an hour-long monologue on sexual aberrations in female pygmy shrews.†   (source)
  • I was sleepy, I was preoccupied with the magnificent music and I was trying to read while P. D. talked—a long, immensely funny monologue, punctuated every five minutes by: "Well, I'll shut up now and let you concentrate on that.†   (source)
  • He launched into a long, disjointed monologue.†   (source)
  • But I thought this might provoke Nathan into thinking I was pulling his leg; he might then embark again upon his monologue, which was becoming a trifle exhausting, so I merely smiled thinly, wrapping myself in an enigma, and replied, "I have a private source of income."†   (source)
  • Years later, beginning with my story "Why I Live at the P.O.," I wrote reasonably often in the form of a monologue that takes possession of the speaker.†   (source)
  • He said, breaking into his wife's vague monologue, "Who phoned?"†   (source)
  • A double monologue was going on in his mind, two different kinds of monologue, the one dry and businesslike, the other addressed to Lara, like a river in flood.†   (source)
  • As soon as the news came on, Ted began a long monologue which continued unabated till I excused myself an hour later.†   (source)
  • Mrs. McIntyre continued with the monologue that Mrs. Shortley had heard oftentimes before.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [as if concluding an interior monologue] A fine state of affairs!†   (source)
  • She didn't like the sound of his rambling monologue, but she was afraid to cut him off.   (source)
    monologue = long uninterrupted talking
  • At this moment, however, even the monologue had dried up.   (source)
    monologue = long uninterrupted speech
  • It was dead silent as he continued in a monologue that sounded as if he spoke it for himself only.†   (source)
  • After Teren got himself lost halfway through Fain's garden monologue, I turned back to face him.†   (source)
  • I think Professor Nolan has just begun working on monologues.†   (source)
  • The house quiets as I continue my taunting monologue.†   (source)
  • In fact it had been a two-hour monologue.†   (source)
  • She looked up and slipped into a practiced monologue.†   (source)
  • Palmgren had not said a word during this monologue.†   (source)
  • So much insight gained, in the space of ten minutes of ugly monologue.†   (source)
  • Stone silence fills the line and I fill that silence with a monologue that's what?†   (source)
  • Any questions about choosing a monologue, Zoey?†   (source)
  • Luke loved a good monologue, but I didn't.†   (source)
  • Larry's planned monologue is disrupted, and he discards it.†   (source)
  • I recognized it because I'd chosen it as the monologue I memorized my freshman year at SIHS.†   (source)
  • Each will perform their competition monologue.†   (source)
  • And he began the monologue from Othello.†   (source)
  • And I remembered that's what she'd said during the monologue performance.†   (source)
  • The first monologue on the page was from Always Ridiculous by Jose Echegaray.†   (source)
  • Here ya go," she tossed a couple of monologue books at me.†   (source)
  • I'll be circulating and can answer any questions you have about individual monologues.†   (source)
  • So, there are copies of monologues in the red bookshelves at the rear of the class.†   (source)
  • The page was open to the subchapter: Dramatic Monologues for Women.†   (source)
  • Throughout this monologue, Sam has continued to stare at me.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he had not even heard the interruption, Lost in his thoughts, he went on with his monologue.†   (source)
  • She giggled at Nathan, carrying on a zany monologue in counterpoint to the depressing biography.†   (source)
  • So he launched into a lengthy monologue about Moolak, an Eskimo salmon fisherman.†   (source)
  • Aureliano ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought he understood something of what Melquiades was saying in his groping monologues, and he paid attention.†   (source)
  • There followed a comedian's wheedling monologue, broken at last by applause, and a jolly band striking up.†   (source)
  • She let him nail up the boxes and put his initials on them with an inked brush, without reproaching him, but knowing now that he knew (because she had heard him say so in his soft monologues) that the men of the village would not back him up in his undertaking.†   (source)
  • As if to emphasize that she has everything "down pat" she delivers the monologue in a rhythmic, almost singsong way.†   (source)
  • Clara was the only one to notice the change in her expression, since Esteban was absorbed in his usual monologue about the ingrates who bite the hand that feeds them, "all because of those goddam politicians like that new Socialist candidate, a real nincompoop who has the nerve to ride up and down the country in his shabby little train, stirring the people up with his Bolshevik ideas, he'd better keep away from here if he knows what's good for him becaus†   (source)
  • How about a Shakespeare monologue?†   (source)
  • My father stopped in the middle of the monologue he had been reciting for me and gave an irritated sigh.†   (source)
  • I read a monologue from Julius Caesar and performed a short hip-hop play about the redemption of a former child soldier that I had written with Esther's encouragement.†   (source)
  • The first part of the run was a monologue that Sims delivered with a veteran's artful zest and he stopped talking only to take deep breaths or blow sweat off the edge of his upper lip.†   (source)
  • He did not speak down to her or at her, nor content himself with puerile questions about her life or monologues of his own activities.†   (source)
  • Booth will sit before him and deliver a furious monologue, accusing Lincoln of stupidity and self-importance.†   (source)
  • At first, Travis had no idea who Molly was—which lent that part of the monologue a surreal quality—but as she continued, he gradually realized that Molly was Gabby's collie, which he'd noticed her walking occasionally.†   (source)
  • He sucked on lozenges, spoke to people in endless monologues, free-associating, as if the language came from some vastness beyond the world and he was simply the medium of revelation.†   (source)
  • Lenny did a monologue in Spanglish and they loved it and laughed and half wept and a young man majoring in Wardrobe Management chugalugged a glass of straight scotch, a stone's throw from Cuba.†   (source)
  • BENEATHA ignores the eccentricity of his actions and goes on with the monologue of insult) Did you dream of yachts on Lake Michigan, Brother?†   (source)
  • As is his new habit, he regales Herold with a monologue on the killings—regrets, desires, and misunderstandings.†   (source)
  • Laughter and another series of monologues about Betina's bad-natured exit followed for the next five minutes.†   (source)
  • A man alone at a table was moaning a bummed-out monologue that involved being followed wherever he went, and they were recording his private thoughts, and they were sending the seeing-eye blind to spy on him with their dogs and their pencils and their cups, and they were doing this on buses and subways both.†   (source)
  • He nods as her monologue moves to how "even some freshmen and sophomores drive around in BMWs and Mercedes and Lexuses ...but it doesn't bother me ...I know it's just Daddy's money."†   (source)
  • It didn't matter if they often repeated what had been said or if their monologues held no relevance to the issues; each one fought for the space to outshine the other.†   (source)
  • He did psychoanalysis, personal reminiscence, he did voices and accents, grandmotherly groans, scenes from prison movies, and he finally closed the show with a monologue that had a kind of abridged syntax, a thing without connectives, he was cooking free-form, closer to music than speech, doing a spoken jazz in which a slang term generates a matching argot, like musicians trading fours, the road band, the sideman's inner riff, and when the crowd dispersed they took this rap mosaic with them into the strip joints and bars and late-night diners, the places where the nighthawks congregate, and it was Lenny's own hard bop, his speeches to the people that rode the broad Chicago night.†   (source)
  • I saw someone I thought was that Cassie Kramme girl who'd done so well in the monologue competition making snow angels with a couple other girls.†   (source)
  • Please give him the hero's welcome he deserves for placing first in the International Shakespearian Monologue Competition!†   (source)
  • I could not believe I'd totally blown off the fact that Erik was performing the Shakespearian monologue he'd taken to the competition.†   (source)
  • He has gone to our East Coast school to support our students who are in the final round of our international Shakespearean monologue contest.†   (source)
  • Professor Nolan introduced Deino, saying that she'd finished an amazing eleventh overall, and then Deino began Cleopatra's death scene monologue.†   (source)
  • With an energetic smile and nod, she motioned for us to start looking through the zillions of monologue books.†   (source)
  • Prof Nolan announced that Kaci had placed fifty-second in the competition with her rendition of Beatrice's monologue from Much Ado About Nothing.†   (source)
  • Well, it happened the second he came into class, but it was especially noticeable when he was giving us an example of a monologue.†   (source)
  • Erik paused in his monologue, and moved forward until he was standing at the edge of the stage, so close that if I stood I could reach up and touch him.†   (source)
  • We are ready for your monologue.†   (source)
  • The drama teacher, Professor Nolan, came out onstage and spent a while explaining the importance of actors being trained in the classics, and talking about how prestigious the Shakespeare monologue contest is for vamps around the world.†   (source)
  • I would have thought it was just an accident or something, but he looked at me before he started the monologue, and then again as he was leaving the room.†   (source)
  • Most of you already know fifth former, Erik Night, and are aware that he won last year's worldwide House of Night monologue competition, the finals of which were held in London.†   (source)
  • But first, I thought you'd like to have a demonstration of how a monologue should be performed, so I asked one of our talented upperclassmen to stop by and recite the famous monologue from Othello, written by the ancient vampyre playwright, Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Monologues seem intimidating, but the key is to get your lines down, and then to imagine that you're actually acting with a full cast of actors.†   (source)
  • I opened up the first book and started to flip through the pages, trying (unsuccessfully) to forget about Erik and concentrate on monologues.†   (source)
  • We're just about to begin choosing the monologues that each of you will present to the class sometime next week.†   (source)
  • There was no sound anywhere but Taggert's far-away voice inside the house, a stream of words—you might have thought he was auctioning something—a monologue never broken by a sound from the others.†   (source)
  • He'd come up on the porch just a little after midnight—she was certain of the time, or thought she was—when Clumly was hearing the monologue of the Sunlight Man at the Presbyterian church, and he'd knocked sharply, as only a policeman would knock, or an agent of the German Gestapo in one of those movies.†   (source)
  • Like the choruses and monologues of ancient tragedies, like the language of poetry or music, or any other conventional mode of expression, its logic was not rational but emotional.†   (source)
  • Gazing out at the grime-encrusted façade of the Wheatena factory—hulking, homely, its blue industrial windows reflecting the morning light—I shivered with happiness and again with pride at the sheer quality of what I had put into my book by dint of so much solitary work and perspiration and, yes, even occasional freshets of grief; and thinking once more of the as yet unwritten climax, I allowed myself to fantasize a line from the review of a dazzled critic of 1949 or 1950: "The most powerful passage of female interior monologue since Molly Bloom's."†   (source)
  • On and on the voice went, a gentle monologue, lulling, soothing, murmurously infusing her with a sense of repose; it was a soft refrain so sedative indeed that soon she was no longer even embarrassed that the hands of this stranger were greenly stained with her own sour juices, and somehow she regretted that the one thought she had expressed to him, when she had first opened her eyes, had been the impossibly foolish Oh, I think I'm going to die.†   (source)
  • Sweet talk, Shakespearean monologues, Marine Corps brutality, prayers—anything that could possibly inflame the imagination, even momentarily, of someone imprisoned in my classroom all day.†   (source)
  • He was drinking gin and tonics and monologuing.†   (source)
  • Dona Maria had begun to discover that her feverish monologues had a way of keeping her awake all night.†   (source)
  • When he came it was, of course, with perfect propriety; he apologized, sat in the empty place, and allowed Mr. Samgrass to resume his monologue, uninterrupted and, it seemed, unheard.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on a monologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, which he punctuated by hammering his fist on the table and waving his arms in the air.†   (source)
  • She continued in amiable monologue for another half hour, her eyes probing about swiftly all the time at the two dark figures before her.†   (source)
  • And in the long run, to these sterile, reiterated monologues, these futile colloquies with a blank wall, even the banal formulas of a telegram came to seem preferable.†   (source)
  • Across the street again, before the windows of the Van W. Yeats Shoe Company, the Reverend J. Brooks Gall, Amherst ('61), and as loyal a Deke as ever breathed, but looking only sixty of his seventy-three years, paused in his brisk walk, and engaged in sprightly monologue, three of his fellow Boy Scouts—the Messrs. Lewis Monk, seventeen, Bruce Rogers, thirteen, and Malcolm Hodges, fourteen.†   (source)
  • Aunt Pittypat's monologue broke off suddenly as she said inquiringly: "Yes, Mammy?" and Scarlett, coming back from dreams, saw Mammy standing in the doorway, her hands under her apron and in her eyes an alert piercing look.†   (source)
  • From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.†   (source)
  • He forgot I hadn't heard any of these splendid monologues on, what was it?†   (source)
  • It was hardly a conversation; it was a monologue.†   (source)
  • In it there was something soft and tender like the monologue of a babe.†   (source)
  • After a long while his monologue paused.†   (source)
  • Stephen sat on a footstool beside his father listening to a long and incoherent monologue.†   (source)
  • Some way along the road he began a muttered monologue, protests and recriminations.†   (source)
  • Suddenly his blood ran cold as he realized the content of Collis's confidential monologue.†   (source)
  • On of them was just bringing a long monologue to a close.†   (source)
  • "It is so unlucky," ran the monologue, "that money wasn't put into it about fifty years ago.†   (source)
  • I waited till his monologue paused again.†   (source)
  • The lama, under cover of the monologue, had faded out into the darkness towards the room prepared.†   (source)
  • At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.†   (source)
  • That is what we call a monologue in tragedy.†   (source)
  • No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred.†   (source)
  • besides, in the life of complete inertia which she led she attached to the least of her sensations an extraordinary importance, endowed them with a Protean ubiquity which made it difficult for her to keep them secret, and, failing a confidant to whom she might communicate them, she used to promulgate them to herself in an unceasing monologue which was her sole form of activity.†   (source)
  • Mainly the Round Table talk was monologues—narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor.†   (source)
  • And yet that would be somewhat inaccurate, since the conversation was actually a monologue by Naphta, who, after only a few words contributed by the others, took sole charge—a monologue of a quite peculiar and antisocial sort, for the ex-Jesuit turned his back on Herr Settembrini, who sat at his side, fully ignored the other gentlemen, and used the occasion for an amiable lesson addressed exclusively to Hans Castorp.†   (source)
  • His endless muttering monologue vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action, and drove me at times, thus pent up and intensified, almost to the verge of craziness.†   (source)
  • Helen at one part of the table, Margaret at the other, would talk of Mr. Bast and of no one else, and somewhere about the entree their monologues collided, fell ruining, and became common property.†   (source)
  • I am willing to admit, my dear young lady, that from your point of view it would be a fine idea if each character could tell the public all his troubles in a nice monologue or a regular one hour lecture.†   (source)
  • He liked new faces, and he took a fancy to Philip, who seemed to achieve the difficult feat of talking just enough to suggest conversation and not too much to prevent monologue.†   (source)
  • The man continued his monologue.†   (source)
  • After the first monologue the whole company rose and surrounded Mademoiselle George, expressing their enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • He was engaged in such monologues when Zossimov, who had spent the night in Praskovya Pavlovna's parlour, came in.†   (source)
  • His mother always kept him near her; she cut out cardboard for him, told him tales, entertained him with endless monologues full of melancholy gaiety and charming nonsense.†   (source)
  • But the usher's brutal monologue came to an end; every one had arrived, and Gringoire breathed freely once more; the actors continued bravely.†   (source)
  • All this was a brilliant monologue on the part of the duchess, who, like many of her country-women, was a person of an affirmative rather than an interrogative cast of mind, who made mots and put them herself into circulation, and who was apt to offer you a present of a convenient little opinion, neatly enveloped in the gilt paper of a happy Gallicism.†   (source)
  • Mitya uttered his sudden monologue as though he were determined to be absolutely silent for the future.†   (source)
  • Now, a month later, he had begun to look upon them differently, and, in spite of the monologues in which he jeered at his own impotence and indecision, he had involuntarily come to regard this "hideous" dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still did not realise this himself.†   (source)
  • "Accursed Parisians!" he said to himself (for Gringoire, like a true dramatic poet, was subject to monologues) "there they are obstructing my fire!†   (source)
  • Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.†   (source)
  • This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at him intently the while:— "Are you afraid?"†   (source)
  • He indulged in scowls and in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue.†   (source)
  • He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:— "What is there that is cheap now?†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy absorption, sensations from without did reach him.†   (source)
  • There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case—the soul,— and therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects and discuss theses.†   (source)
  • As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barriere-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night.†   (source)
  • We assume that ancient audiences would have been accustomed to Homer's idioms, as modern audiences can follow a complex Shakespearean monologue as it trips off an actor's tongue because they have experience of his rhythms, his range of conceits and figurative language.†   (source)
  • It was some time before I became aware that my thread of petition was no longer a monologue.†   (source)
  • By the end of this monologue I was covered in sweat.†   (source)
  • —That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find Hamlet's musings about the afterlife of his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's.†   (source)
  • The play is taking up most of my time as we get closer to opening night. lots of lines to remember. long monologues where it's just me talking.   (source)
    monologues = long uninterrupted speeches by a single actor
  • i can't sleep tonight. my head is full of thoughts that won't turn off. lines from my monologues. elements of...   (source)
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