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US
/səˈɫɪɫəkwi/
]
[ UK /səlˈɪləkwˌi/ ]
[ UK /səlˈɪləkwˌi/ ]
NOUN
- speech you make to yourself
- a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
How To Use soliloquy In A Sentence
- One day, for instance, in securing some of the gear of a sledge, Okotook broke a part of it, composed of a piece of our white line, and I shall never forget the contemptuous sneer with which he muttered in soliloquy the word "Kabloona!" in token of the inferiority of our materials to his own. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
- The “to be or not to be” soliloquy is presented against a vast seascape where waves crash wildly into massive shoreline stones. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- But let us close our florilegium and attempt to illustrate Jargon by the converse method of taking a famous piece of English (say Hamlets soliloquy) and remoulding a few lines of it in this fashion: To be, or the contrary? V. Interlude: On Jargon
- He composed his face as if to deliver Hamlet's saddest soliloquy. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- Her soliloquy is a masterpiece of self-deception.
- There are cruxes, for instance, in Shakespeare's texts, such as the ‘sullied-solid-sallied’ one in Hamlet's first soliloquy, where no one can decide for sure just what Shakespeare wrote, let alone what he intended.
- 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.
- A happy-go-lucky soliloquy on the splendidness of breasts is illuminated with a veritable taxonomy of sweater puppets.
- So ending his strange soliloquy, with a corresponding cast upon his countenance, the assassin rebuttons his coat -- thrown open in search for the missing papers. The Death Shot A Story Retold
- Steil wondered if the Lexus woman had been more surprised by the perforations than by his soliloquy. OUTCAST