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Recent Examples of soliloquizeNot just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023 Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga.—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices.—Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 Written by Vaiva Grainytė, scored by Lina Lapelytė and directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera, which won the top prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale, unfolds over five hours as various performers soliloquize about the adversities of climate change.—Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing.—Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
The cast largely helps to keep things grounded, rebutting the histrionics by treating each claim with legitimacy or reciting each gauche line with apt conviction.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.
But expect more than a few awards pundits to declaim that the Academy, finally, has no other choice but to present Park Chan-wook with his first Oscar nomination.
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Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
Yours to treasure: to recite under your breath, to whisper in someone’s ear, to declaim at a party.
Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
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Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
The cycle can become so accidentally ubiquitous that the former kids who blissfully existed outside of whatever discourses these trends or bands started in their heyday wonder now, as adults, what was so bad about them in the first place.
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Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
21 July 2025
Admissions officers want to see that students will contribute meaningfully to discourse on campus.
The tone was all the more remarkable because Desmond had previously spoken admiringly of Rodgers’ coaching capabilities and did not harangue him as supporters did when Rodgers abruptly left Celtic for Leicester City in 2019.
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Michael Walker,
New York Times,
28 Oct. 2025
Truman would never have harangued the international community that America is First, or obstructed every effort to better the lot of humanity by asking what’s in it for the U.S., not in coming decades but during this news cycle.
The same government that lectures Beijing about state capitalism and nonmarket behaviors now practices it at home.
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Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
But Andres Bernal, a political analyst who lectures at the City University of New York, thinks many young voters look at Cuomo's history of controversy and are reminded of the Democratic Party establishment that has left them disillusioned.
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