interior monologue
noun
: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
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Two such traits, being thin-skinned and suffering from an interior monologue of unending self-doubt, are often identified as negatives.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The narrator’s solitary fantasy system is indeed powerful: her interior monologue floods, soothes, ignites, and bitterly defends.
—Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2025
As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The narrator’s solitary fantasy system is indeed powerful: her interior monologue floods, soothes, ignites, and bitterly defends.
—Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2025
As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for interior monologue
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“Interior monologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interior%20monologue. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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