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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 sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
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Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
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.
Philadelphia Phillies fan Drew Feltwell wants people to lay off the woman who harangued him and his son over a home run ball at a game last week.
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George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
That entanglement allowed Biden to traverse the country haranguing business on equity, climate, daycare, union labor, and other whole-of-government crusades—while taunting Republicans who relented for the sake of home-district dollars.
In between all the jokes, the film stops more than once to basically lecture on this sad state of affairs, an admirable Sturges-like approach that gets laid on thick, perhaps too thick to merge successfully with the largely comedic rhythm Ansari has established so well.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
Coach Eli Drinkwitz brought in guest speakers (including Hill) to lecture players on the rivalry.
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