How To Use Monologue In A Sentence

Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
His monologue casts light on the common experience of the stereotypical man who is unemotional, uncaring, and cold.
The comedy star's character delivers a moving monologue to camera in the final scene. The Sun
He reaches an international audience by providing vivid photo travelogues and a soundtrack - a film context, as he calls it - for his lengthy monologues.
The second is that he's plagued by interior monologues. Times, Sunday Times

The play starts off with an actor rehearsing a monologue for an acting competition.
She delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice.
Cabaret songs were not the only type of entertainment they were treated to; pantomimes, monologues, and even shadow plays augmented the presentations.
Not 12 pages of internal monologue. Times, Sunday Times
See, when liberals take over the schools and make everyone read Rigoberta Menchu and the Vagina Monologues, basic astroengineering goes out the window! Nick Mamatas' Journal
I could cut a few monologues, but the parts that don't advance the story are the funniest ones.
The announcement comes as somewhat of a surprise after The Office creator and UK series star delivered a hard-hitting monologue last year that included zingers aimed at Hugh Hefner, Charlie Sheen, the cast of Sex and the City 2 and Scientologists. Who Will He Offend This Year? Ricky Gervais to Host Golden Globes Again
He opened with a seven-minute monologue in which he guaranteed—for the third straight year—that the Jets would win the Super Bowl, a moment of rote audaciousness that seemed designed to pique people's interest. The Allure of Playing for Rex
She launched into a long monologue about how wonderful the company was.
There's a power of difference between a monologue and a one-man show.
Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games? Words of wisdom
It suffers from a surprising First Movie generic problem; interior monologue voice-over, which is odd given that the Weitz brothers, whilst not old-timers, are not newbies either.
Their monologues, pretentious, thick or plain naff, provide a sort of alternative history for the age of celebrity.
This lends a surreal tone to proceedings, especially during Matilda's monologues about herself and family.
I preached the entire book as a dramatic monologue from the viewpoint of one of the elders of Bethlehem. Christianity Today
But the speed and frequency of these interchanges sacrifices the clarity of the monologue, which is a shame as Hotter's script, in the places where is was Ned alone, is impressive.
Long monologues of exposition in the first scene contribute to a static quality which dogs the play throughout. The Times Literary Supplement
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
At the moment I am reading King’s “The Shining” and the internal monologue of all the characters features prominently – though in tiny snippets, rather than in large slabs and are delineated from the rest of the narrative, through the use of brackets. Interior Monologues in Writing « Write Anything
I explain that I am a volunteer and in America, I was an English teacher and wode aihao my hobby is teaching because it makes me very happy...and that continues into a mini-monologue about how you should only choose a career that makes you happy and that will help you grow and learn more about yourself and the world and life, etc. etc. etc. Runnin' the Great Wall...
It's an extended interior monologue covering a day and a night's hunt in the life of a wolf. Times, Sunday Times
It is mostly his internal monologue that's the good bit. Times, Sunday Times
Delivering the monologues are six actresses, each portraying a different type of mother.
Martin Buber claims three ways of discourses, namely, discourse proper, technical discourse, and monologue in disguise of discourse.
Naturally, because I was talking to him in my head, the whole conversation was a monologue, and it was all about me.
This is primarily due to its ferocious monologues: long, rolling thunderstorms of eloquent rage. Times, Sunday Times
He has pages upon pages of script to learn and long monologues in the baking heat - he was impressive to watch. The Sun
Maxwell's text, in opening and closing monologues, overwrites the story of his family's trans-American migration onto the biblical arc of the Creation and Redemption allegories, a contemporary flavor skillfully affected by somehow tasteful references to free-basing. Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion"
Geoff delivers a monologue about divorce with ad-libs to the audience - this is real talent.
A Finnegan's Wake, where an interior monologue becomes the reason for painting adrift, images whose common thread is a diary of my most intimate memories.
Impeccable diction (even in patter songs), timing, and mimicry contributed to memorable character-monologues.
I will however admit to occasionally, when I feel particularly embarrassed for my unabashed public monologues, pretending to be singing instead, like "* mumble mumble* I really should complete my masterplan for world domination today Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
Surely they would need to see the other characters or have my monologue interspersed with newsreel footage of the camps. Times, Sunday Times
Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue.
She had to deliver a very stagey monologue, and she missed every opportunity to make it moving.
I have nearly no dialogue, too much internal monologue, and multitudinous plot lines dangling all over the place.
This short video advertising Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch shows a reformed alien sitting at the breakfast table, engaged in a rambling monologue about how he has metamorphosed from a scary flesh-eating monster into a pilates-practicing, go-with-the-flow type of guy that you might want to sit down and have a bowl of cereal with. Boing Boing
His moving delivery and inspirational monologues give heart to the whole spectacle.
The programme first surfaced in 2001 with each 10-minute episode taking the form of a monologue in which minicab driver Keith would detail how his wife Marion had cuckolded him with her lover Geoff and taken his two children with them.
His monologue, delivered as he perched on the edge of his desk or on a stool, was gentle, discursive and memorized from his own handwritten notes - no cue cards.
However, I find conversations more interesting than monologues.
Carson's topical jokes showed a barometric sensitivity to shifts in the national mood -- when his monologues made Richard Nixon their butt, that was the ball game -- but equally important was the host's carefully crafted casualness and the show's changelessness: The New York Times's Frank Rich called it "as formulaic and reassuring as Kabuki. JOHNNY CARSON, 1925-2005
Participants have the choice of doing script work, monologue, duologue, small group script work or musical theatre.
Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen.
As they describe Capote's effervescent monologue, you can almost see him sitting on the beige cloth couch, legs crossed, waving his arms around as if starring in his own movie.
The group discussion had ceased and the whacko had finished his ranting monologue on all the multiple talents of the doctor.
Tripmaster Monkey opens with a pastiche of Ulysses's third chapter, Stephen Dedalus's ten-page interior monologue.
Shapiro does not offer monologues or narratives but poetic dramas in which multiple voices are allowed on the stage.
I offhandedly expostulated whilst continuing to read her two page monologue.
Geoff delivers a monologue about divorce with ad-libs to the audience - this is real talent.
We're calling it an annoying monologue over computer-generated sound. Times, Sunday Times
The play begins with the monologue of Scott, a 19-year-old soldier who confesses the crimes he commits during the war.
Rather than saying that he would exact bloody vengeance, he plunged into a monologue about the need to convene a hemispheric summit on drug abuse.
The vivid phrasemaking is liquid gold on the actors 'tongues and the literary craftsmanship is admirable, with details in the monologues overlapping at just the right moment to snap a bleak image indelibly into place. Rosemary Jenkinson's 'Stella Morgan' is good, but not great, at Keegan Theatre
She did a one-woman show of Joyce Grenfell monologues.
Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions.
A popular topic that recurs in the Monologues is that of sexual pleasure - or lack thereof.
It's too bad that most of his monologues were so focused on current events because it made them hard to watch now.
The new recruits, studying with Crooked House Theatre Company, will perform a series of scenes, monologues and duologues from diverse and interesting plays.
Mixed with the blue of the smoke from his briar was the deeper azure of a spirited monologue in which Grayson was engaged. The Mucker
Dag Daughtry, after he had compassed his fourth bottle, confided in monologue to the Shortlands planter that night just before bedtime. CHAPTER VIII
His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues.
Or, by switching voices, he himself can reply to his own statement and then respond to the reply, thereby shifting from monologue to the enactment of dialogue.
At a meeting to discuss the takeover, he delivered a two-hour monologue: all because some doubting voices were raised over the price being offered.
He does more with an eyebrow and a nod than most actors do with full monologues.
He recalled in all seriousness when the monologue once went down the dumper three nights straight he was ready to quit the business.
In that sense, both childlike speech and slangy expression operate for Wallace as kin of free indirect discourse, here disguising as prose the speech or internal monologue of the author himself, rather than that of a character's. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
These devices are also used as linking pieces between monologues, and help give the production a unified feel.
From there any further travel makes a beeline to confession, the embarrassed monologue in a deserted bazaar.
He could run off a comedy monologue in half an hour.
As chatty and chummy as one of his famous monologues, the book celebrates an unusually charmed life in a profession more noted for its high incidence of ego and angst, burnout and heartache.
His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch.
Many of those in More to Remember are written in such fixed forms as the haiku, triolet, dramatic monologue, and sonnet while others experiment with slant rhyme, indentation, and the blues form.
Her internal monologues, the bits where she bangs on about how good she is and how she wants to live a full rich life and see plays and make people better, are the book's weakest links.
Anita Gates, in the NYT, reviews a play that seems to be hoping cash in on "Vagina Monologues"-style title titillation by calling itself "Orgasms. Oh, the pain of being a theater reviewer!
His monologue has the theatrical showmanship of a barker or a master of ceremonies: ‘The time: now… which brings us to… the third and most important player’.
It may seem odd, then, that almost nothing is known about him… The Cloud Messenger is a poetic monologue in 210 stanzas; if one were to place it approximately in a genre of European verse, one could call it a pastorale.
It is obviously not a play and, like its predecessor, it is a loosely knit series of monologues on birth and motherhood.
Great House" is told in spliced monologues, each recounting the misfortunes of these and other characters who struggle under a "crippling burden of memory. A Desk and Its Stories
Lindsay also writes several dramatic monologues for cab drivers, gardeners, or barely disguised versions of his working self.
A Finnegan's Wake, where an interior monologue becomes the reason for painting adrift, images whose common thread is a diary of my most intimate memories.
Her cacuminal speech prods the back of my neck, my face turned to a corner, wedged, stiff, stuck fast, lodged within the confines of her retroflexed monologue - this verse is addressed to both myself and the boy (who keeps slapping blackboard grime like muddy shoes).
The sound mix is monaural, with some echo in spots to give it the illusion of depth, especially during internal monologues.
Shug has no material prepared, but launches into a rambling monologue about his journey to the class.
She carried on a monologue of self-praise and justification.
Ignoring me, he began a monologue that nonetheless seemed to be directed my way. Times, Sunday Times
This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour, warmth and trivial monologue.
The critics here have a good point: the whole thing is written in this atrocious faux-Elizabethan monologue, and has no character development, no description, and the sketchiest of plots. MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)
On top of this, a Shakespeare monologue or script had to be learnt - a daunting prospect indeed.
The result is long passages of simplistic monologue explaining basic Marxism in an entirely unconvincing manner, making the characters appear as cardboard cut-outs.
Our lives happen in voices: in inner monologue and outer dialogue, in scenes of interwoven tension and resolution with comic byplay.
The intolerable toneless monologues of the last few auditions made a couple of people go to sleep.
I was wondering if you have written anything you feel would be appropriate as a theatrical monologue.
The piece also cunningly exploits the writer's own gift for confessional monologues.
We were going to see a two-way conversation replace a one-way monologue.
You get this interior monologue and it's completely negative. Times, Sunday Times
Let's be honest here, Shakespeare's tragedies are filled with dialogue, monologue, and soliloquy.
That dismissiveness is broken, every now and again, with a word (or, more commonly, and internal monologue) about his unspoken respect. Your Mileage May Vary | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues.
Bowling unhindered through the Suffolk verdure, Peel offers a courteous monologue on the local environment.
The rental agent who showed the freaks round their new gaff kept up a familiar monologue on pop culture. Times, Sunday Times
Then he delivers a roughly 25-minute monologue in rhyming verse that is by turns loony, ingratiating, egomaniacal, desperate and, shall we say, gastro-intestinal. A British Star With a Midwestern Accent
The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
The ending monologue intimates that he's not above selling your services to the highest bidder, but it was the phrase ‘illusion of free will’ that caught my ear.
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. Mark Twain: A Biography
A torrent of rationalizations spill out of him in monologues, especially on pardons and terrorism.
What the monologue thus conceives is an experience under negation, never fully bound in the present, another mode of imposture.
Monologues are a true storytelling artform, as in actual storytelling around the campfire, and Neil seems to be more of a teller than a describer.
At this moment, however, even the monologue had dried up.
In another sequence, an African-American dancer's monologue says she wants "blankness" - but only after her character has gone into histrionics when another dancer claims she can take on the racial appearance of the people she's around. Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
Puffy eyes, the recitation of dramatic deathbed monologues.
While a clearly defined message was hard to suss, I'm betting the word "corporation" figured heavily in passionate monologues. Paul Schwennesen: Too Big Has Failed... Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Are Similar
LIMBAUGH: The -- there's a complicated answer to this and I'm going to have answer some of it in the monologue in the next hour, but one of the simple answers that will require some elaboration is that a lot of money is coming from these kooks -- and I'm not talking about just the blacks -- I'm talking about a whole kook-fringe base because George Soros is running it -- Archive 2008-06-01
She has claimed the best actress title at the TV Baftas on three occasions - two for her monologues in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads plays, which were tailor-made for her.
He writes dialogue by cutting monologue in two.
The imbalanced pacing makes it difficult to appreciate the profound monologues and witty repartee that follow the long stretches of absurdity.
Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop.
Yet, the air of mystery surrounding each character never dissipates, even after the last line of each monologue is spoken.
The rental agent who showed the freaks round their new gaff kept up a familiar monologue on pop culture. Times, Sunday Times
It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who invented the melodrama in his dramatic monologue Pygmalion, first performed in Paris in the early 1760s.
Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
The actors conceived and workshopped their own monologues, creating a well integrated show despite the diverse subject matter.
The songs also allow each character to unveil her inner life, as a sort of monologue both moving and comic.
In another one of Random Acts's monologues, a petite, elfin woman in a peach sweater squares herself off at the confessor's table, and begins to talk with a slight southern lilt.
They would eat and talk for hours in courtly monologues that eventually corkscrewed into concrete demands. Day of Honey
While the poems work as dramatic monologues in their own right, they are also metaphors for the human search for faith and truth, in art, religion and, yes, even voodoo dolls.
This evening will see Community Monologues come to the Fringe.
By the end of the manuscript, the copyeditor's monologue has gone on so long, the anger has turned into rage.
Sometimes they were monologues, sometimes they were playlets.
In the course of a mini-monologue, Zito can sound like a railbird who was one unlucky break from cashing a big ticket. NYT > Home Page
This was a monologue delivered in such a preposterous American accent that to begin with it sounded like a joke. Times, Sunday Times
In what may be Howard's clunkiest decision, Nixon seems to catch Frost's eye through the television screen, setting up the identification between the two that runs throughout the film and climaxes with Nixon's drunken, late-night telephone monologue. Film
Legend From The Tradition created by the famous soviet cartoon film maker Ulla Noustainye, was made by means of Interior monologue, thus full of features.
You get this interior monologue and it's completely negative. Times, Sunday Times
Legend From The Tradition created by the famous soviet cartoon film maker Ulla Noustainye, was made by means of Interior monologue, thus full of features.
There will be comedy routines, monologues and young people playing music of all descriptions and tastes.
Surely they would need to see the other characters or have my monologue interspersed with newsreel footage of the camps. Times, Sunday Times
Surely they would need to see the other characters or have my monologue interspersed with newsreel footage of the camps. Times, Sunday Times
You also need to keep an internal monologue, otherwise you forget simple things. Times, Sunday Times
Christine's acceptance by a haughty lady gallerist on the basis of a goofy videotape monologue seems a bit far-fetched.
While it was true that she was still sticking to her almost all black Goth-Ick style of dress, it was the name brands plastered across her clothing that tipped me off to what she was up to and the exact subject matter of her monologue. The Devil’s in the Diva
I'm going to do what I call my sapphic sampler platter - it's monologues about being reared in Michigan by feral republicans - becoming a major irritant of the moral majority - and if that's not enough I will explain the following terms: teaser bitch, standing heat and the formal come. Mark Maynard
They all began with earnest monologues about education, but before long they were each struggling with crowd control and the ephemeral donkey work nobody told them about. Times, Sunday Times
The character's asides disrupt the flow of the action; his reminiscing monologues lack dynamism. Times, Sunday Times
The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel sang three of Hans Sachs' monologues with a depth of dramatic penetration that was awesome.
The character 's asides disrupt the flow of the action; his reminiscing monologues lack dynamism. Times, Sunday Times
Because of a desperate economics that I won't try to grapple with here, New York theater is gradually narrowing itself to two sorts of entertainment: the million-dollar musical and the sawbuck monologue.
This makes for the kind of schizo public monologues most often heard on park benches and street corners. Obama McCain: A Man For This Season
He went straight into a rambling monologue on the state of the country.
- Egypt dialogue on democratization is really a "duologue" of two independent monologues, stemming from two very different political cultures, in which neither side is clearly listening to the other. Spero News
You get this interior monologue and it's completely negative. Times, Sunday Times
Directed and developed by Brader's wife, Suzanne Bachner, this monologue traces a childhood history of bed wetting, beatings, blame, and belittlement. George Heymont: Stiff Upper Lips
The production's succession of monologues is undynamic, despite courageous performances from the six-strong cast. Times, Sunday Times
The actors conceived and workshopped their own monologues, creating a well integrated show despite the diverse subject matter.
From there any further travel makes a beeline to confession, the embarrassed monologue in a deserted bazaar.
What begins as a monologue with French-accented English from a mumbling - if endearing - simpleton emerges as a metaphor not only for language and cultural divides but sexual awakening and repression.
Some said it was retaliation for Rick's daylong monologues, ranging in tone from hilarious to somewhat acidic.
He has been giving his 25 - minute Harris monologue, leavened with humor, to enthusiastic audiences ever since.
Ms. Redgrave has the funniest monologue with her genteel tale of chiropody and fetishism, "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. A Nice Coopa Tea With Alan Bennett
In any case, the idea of the soliloquy would greatly influence Browning's poetry, later characterised by its artful monologues, even if it would take years to be used to full effect.
So yeah, I think my initial outrage during that monologue was just my inner geek showing through.
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A lengthy closing monologue feels particularly unnecessary. Times, Sunday Times
The programme, largely monologue, consisted of a woolly, stagey ramble through her life and times.
The worst part is the maddening banter: "At this particular moment in time, could you put your hands together and give it up for bridesmaid Caressa Van Riemsdyck and best man Shayenne O'Leary?" he screeches, as if every wedding were a re-enactment of an Arsenio Hall monologue, circa 1989. DJs: The Real Wedding Crashers
The _dramatic monologue_ is a poem in which a dramatic situation is presented, or perhaps a story is told, by one speaker. Lady of the Lake
However, his inner and outer selves are constant and we do not see, in his monologues, the base evil of his Machiavellian soul.
But while the overall story is predictable and shallow some of the individual pages and the monologues therein are nice, and the illustrations executed with some technical skill.
For ring-a-ding classics, jump on any of these upbeat gems: Songs For Swingin 'Lovers, Come Fly With Me, Come Dance With Me or Sinatra At The Sands (and for heaven's sake, skip the monologues). Michael Giltz: Idol Season 9: Top 5 -- Aaron Swings On Home
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But the monologue form in itself becomes monotonous. Times, Sunday Times
She appears conservatively dressed and begins her taped monologue by saying matter-of-factly, "I'm black."
The first play is the monologue of a travelling salesman, talking to a girl in his hotel room.
Periodically, sleeping is a duty: Anna Livia Plurabelle, in her final monologue spoken amid the matutinal awakening of Finnegans Wake, refers to sleeping beauties as ‘sleeping duties’ that she is reluctant to disturb.
Bowling unhindered through the Suffolk verdure, Peel offers a courteous monologue on the local environment.
There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation.
The movement was interrupted by a monologue on the properties of water, delivered in the style of a lecturer addressing her students.
In the first of three monologues we meet Andy, parking meter engineer with a very strange family.
The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality.
The school are really piling the pressure on, and your child is giving a monologue, as a solitary spotlit figure against a dimly lit set.
Sitting at either end of a long pub lounge, the characters tell their parallel stories by means of disconnected, intertwined monologues.
The distress off camera contributed to the tenor of Taylor's scenes, especially the halting monologue that climaxes the film.
In one corner of the estaminet was a group of bourgeois gentlemen talking business for a time, and then listening to a monologue from the woman behind the counter. Now It Can Be Told
It is more than free association or an unfocused interior monologue. The Sun
Carson would then perform a comic monologue which would end with an imaginary golf swing.
It's another rip-roaring monologue and who knows what Bassett might have done with it if allowed? Michael Giltz: Theater: "The Mountaintop" (Sort Of) Scales The Heights
A lengthy closing monologue feels particularly unnecessary. Times, Sunday Times
This plot device enables us to hear Nicholson's inner feelings without resort to awkward monologues.
Weaving history with poetry, music and drama, ten actors each recite an eight-minute monologue.
But this play is too long on monologues and exposition, and the characters often fail to engage. Times, Sunday Times
It is also one of the longest monologues in a film that barely sits still for a second. Times, Sunday Times
Their internal monologues and many of their conversations are liberally sprinkled with French words and phrases.
Although, his descriptions of individuals and exotic locales would seem effective as monologues as well.
This mix of ancient and modern stories lets him vary his theatrical styles from knockabout comedy to touching monologues.
Moore starts the case against Clark in the opening monologue of the film.

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