All 6 Uses of
colloquy
in
Sophie's Choice
- To which it must be added that in those days of the forty-eight states, when in terms of the quality of public education Harry Byrd's Virginia was generally listed forty-ninth—after Arkansas, Mississippi and even Puerto Rico—the intellectual tang of the colloquy of two fifteen-year-olds is perhaps best left to the imagination.†
p. 46.6
- I hadn't completely realized it at the time, but that same Freudian colloquy which had fascinated and, at the most, amused me had been downright odious to Sophie and had caused her to flee with Nathan from the beach.†
p. 141.5 *
- Even while I was replying to Nathan I realized with despair how we were duplicating the substance if not the same words of the enraged colloquy in which we had gotten so wildly embroiled that first afternoon in Sophie's room.†
p. 223.4
- Their voices continued from below in opaque colloquy, singsong, a dim babble.†
p. 250.0
- I marveled at the grave colloquy: he asked if he was big enough, then if she had "climaxed."†
p. 323.6
- Could it really be that since Hoss had promised to let her see Jan, the little boy was inside the office, listening to the strange loud colloquy between Floss and the person with the voice of the man in her dream?†
p. 441.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(colloquy) a conversation (formal in modern usage); or written dialogue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus