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soliloquy
[ suh-lil-uh-kwee ]
noun
- an utterance or discourse spoken to oneself, without regard for whether any other hearers are present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts):
Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”
- the act of talking while or as if alone.
soliloquy
/ səˈlɪləkwɪ /
noun
- the act of speaking alone or to oneself, esp as a theatrical device
- a speech in a play that is spoken in soliloquy
Hamlet's first soliloquy
Usage
Word History and Origins
Origin of soliloquy1
Word History and Origins
Origin of soliloquy1
Example Sentences
The film opens on a tumbleweed blowing through the twilight streets of Los Angeles and closes with a cowboy soliloquy.
After his Green Eggs and Ham soliloquy, sanity left the building and a shutdown was almost inevitable.
Biden launched into a soliloquy in praise of double-barrel shotguns.
Biden began with a message for anybody who believes that Romney had “just made a mistake” when he made “that little soliloquy.”
In a tearful statement, he launched into a soliloquy about seeing himself free again playing with children, balloons, and dogs.
It seemed that whatever conversation there was going to be would have to take the form of a soliloquy from Clowes.
His language was faultless, his word selections beautiful, his soliloquy impressive beyond description.
A loud cry of a different kind here interrupted his soliloquy, and soon after the first cry was repeated louder than before.
As De Courval caught bits of the soliloquy under his window, he thought of his mother's wonder at this new and surprising country.
Then again there is the clue of Skakspere's use of the word "consummation" in the revised form of the "To be" soliloquy.
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