interior monologue
noun
: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
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Look Who’s Talking, in which Bruce Willis voices the interior monologue of a wisecracking baby.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
The shiba inu is sometimes overlaid with ironic interior monologues in comic sans font, as the website KnowYourMeme points out, or photoshopped to take on different forms, such as a loaf of bread.
—Julian Mark, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Most of the stories touch on the struggle between Mussolini’s Black Shirts and the Communist opposition; Fascist deaths are related with relish, whereas a terrible empathy infuses the panicked interior monologue of a boy bearing a letter across a pass riddled with explosive devices.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
Joe's obsessive, homicidal thoughts have been chronicled on screens since 2018, with Penn Badgley voicing the interior monologue of the identity-shifting, serial-killing stalker when the show first premiered on Lifetime then moved to Netflix in December 2019.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
The rapping became interior monologue.
—The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
But drama is all about dramatic action, which is hard to reveal with somebody’s interior monologue.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
The shiba inu is sometimes overlaid with ironic interior monologues in comic sans font, as the website KnowYourMeme points out, or photoshopped to take on different forms, such as a loaf of bread.
—Julian Mark, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Most of the stories touch on the struggle between Mussolini’s Black Shirts and the Communist opposition; Fascist deaths are related with relish, whereas a terrible empathy infuses the panicked interior monologue of a boy bearing a letter across a pass riddled with explosive devices.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
Joe's obsessive, homicidal thoughts have been chronicled on screens since 2018, with Penn Badgley voicing the interior monologue of the identity-shifting, serial-killing stalker when the show first premiered on Lifetime then moved to Netflix in December 2019.
—Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
The rapping became interior monologue.
—The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
But drama is all about dramatic action, which is hard to reveal with somebody’s interior monologue.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
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