soliloquy

as in speech
a long, usually serious spoken discourse that a character in a play delivers to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts Hamlet's famous soliloquy

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Recent Examples of soliloquy Even Izzard’s brief epilogue, charmingly dedicating the performance to a fellow thespian, crackles with more verve than the most famous of soliloquies. Karen D'souza, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025 The static figures act like a metronome, marking time between the stanzas of his sharp-witted soliloquies and dialogues; the gestures and expressions function as stage directions. Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025 Tellingly, Washington seems never to look directly at the audience during the play’s famous soliloquies, preferring to deliver them high into the air. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025 Inspirational edits of the lesbian Traitors star’s podcast soliloquies have been taking over TikTok. Ana Osorno, Them., 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soliloquy
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    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
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    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 July 2025
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  • Peter Finch gives one of the most electrifying monologues ever filmed.
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  • With piercing honesty and raw emotion, Jean Smart delivers a powerful monologue in Call Me Izzy, a new play written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
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    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
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    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 11 July 2025
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    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 July 2025

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“Soliloquy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquy. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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