How To Use Soliloquy In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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He composed his face as if to deliver Hamlet's saddest soliloquy.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Her soliloquy is a masterpiece of self-deception.
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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.
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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.
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A happy-go-lucky soliloquy on the splendidness of breasts is illuminated with a veritable taxonomy of sweater puppets.
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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
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Steil wondered if the Lexus woman had been more surprised by the perforations than by his soliloquy.
OUTCAST
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A pause in the soliloquy; a glance at the prostrate form; another, which interrogates the scene around, taking in the huge unshapely trunks, their long outstretched limbs, with the pall-like festoonery of Spanish moss; a thought about the loneliness of the place, and its fitness for concealing a dead body.
The Death Shot A Story Retold
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They were forgiving, as they are always, for they know my history as an overreacher and have heard me give the same soliloquy many times.
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On closer inspection the frame seems to be a traction unit as Richard tilts himself upright and begins to unstrap himself, whilst delivering his opening soliloquy.
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Perched alone on a stage, a character engages in a soliloquy so as to unveil their innermost thoughts to the audience.
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A literary composition in the form of a soliloquy.
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In a brief soliloquy, he makes a plea for the leylandii.
Times, Sunday Times
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She did not - as she told it - interrupt the man with pesky questions about his pain but rather listened in an analytical way as if he were a character giving a soliloquy.
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His hilarious five-minute soliloquy about his complex wedding arrangements was fabulous.
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Occasionally, during the action, a speech is highlighted as a soliloquy.
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First the Laurence Olivier scene played on the projector screen; then Anne, a brave woman in the would-be class, read the soliloquy aloud.
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“You speak a soliloquy as if you were on the stage, and seem to account me a cipher,” said the old admiral suddenly.
The Ball at Sceaux
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She had the vocal range and presence that allow for a powerful delivery of the famous (and often studied to death in high school) ‘unsex me now’ soliloquy.
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Throwing off her ear-rings and slouching in her chair, she begins her soliloquy with a moment of anachronistic genius and continues to define the character for a modern sensibility.
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Any movie featuring a rat leaping from a toilet to attack, or a sloppy building superintendent delivering a soliloquy on animal rights to his menagerie of pets, ranks up there with one of the campy creature classics of all time.
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His importunate exercises in prayer and exhortation, should they be all noted, would fill many pages; but I have noted his soliloquy in the above lines, as that through which we may take the most immediate view of the soul's exercises, when under the convictive operations of God's spirit.
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
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Although attempts have been made to portray the closing soliloquy of Molly Bloom as the secret life of Nora Barnacle, it is really a coda to the completed book, and in most respects a glimpse into the anima of James Joyce.
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She kept going, not waiting for me to answer the question that this soliloquy had budded off of.
It Wasn't Me.
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If you've seen BladeRunner, you know the short soliloquy at the end by one of the android replicants, Roy, as he's about to expire from a genetically programmed early death.
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Am I correct that the evening included a rousing soliloquy by Lady Davenant from the marvelous play "Or," performed by one of the gentlemen in attendance?
Eleventh Night
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Says Greenburg, noting the show also starred Brett Favre when his Hamlet-like soliloquy is once again being treated as news: "I'm happy with the show — an excellent show.
Gutter talk snipes 'Joe Buck Live' debut
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Jobson's self-quilled script opens and closes with an oh-so-serious soliloquy, read against a montage of the solar system, along with a CGI whizz-bang ride across the planets.
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The steward's self-pity in his soliloquy suggests lack of control over his situation or a passive-aggressive personality.
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The lengthy trumpet solo near the end, which the program notes advise is an orchestrated soliloquy from the opera on a John Donne poem, was only the most prominent example.
Music review: Adams's 'Doctor Atomic' by BSO at Strathmore
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In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy
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Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness.
Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
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His trigger phrase reflexed him into a soliloquy that gave me time to think.
The Great California Game
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Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code.
Stephen Daldry to Adapt Jonathan Safran Foer’s Novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | /Film
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Hamlet's soliloquy is probably the most famous in English drama.
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He composed his face as if to deliver Hamlet's saddest soliloquy.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code.
Stephen Daldry to Adapt Jonathan Safran Foer’s Novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | /Film
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1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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The dissembling and physically deformed Richard, duke of Gloucester, reveals his true purpose in the opening soliloquy of Richard III.
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winnowed" as the opening of the beautiful and passionate soliloquy of
Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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She or he has a fundamental interest in its practicability, in fact his or her own identity and degree of self-awareness depends upon it: the conversation of soliloquy is "our sovereign remedy and gymnastic method" (84).
Post-Secular Conviviality
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a prevailing opinion; for in the garden scene, when _Juliet_ in soliloquy exclaims, "_O Romeo, Romeo_, wherefore art thou _Romeo_?" an auditor archly replied, aloud, "_Because Barry has gone to the other house_.
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
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He had a 400-word soliloquy that was all over the place, from supposed public puzzlement over some of the judge's decisions, a quip about the senator's son going to University of Pennsylvania, followed by the senator's recollection of speaking at Princeton.
Flavia Colgan: Alito Drowning in Words
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soliloquy might have succeeded in doing just that if he hadn't been in love and overflowing with a marvellous sense of aliveness.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The soliloquy was an Elizabethan dramatic convention.
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In the most important soliloquy in the play, Hamlet allegedly says: ‘But that the dread of something after death / The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, troubles the will.’
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In the end, Georgeanne has a long soliloquy about what happened to everyone afterward, fiction even less convincing than the drama and poetry preceding it.
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His quest for justice begins in his ‘O eyes, no eyes’ soliloquy where he begs heaven to revenge his son's death.
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Let's be honest here, Shakespeare's tragedies are filled with dialogue, monologue, and soliloquy.
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In the soliloquy above he engages in a brilliant radical gloss on conventional thinking, through a series of interrogative puns, and abrasive appropriations of the conventional language of society.