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Definition of soliloquy in English: soliloquynounPlural soliloquies səˈlɪləkwisəˈlɪləkwi 1An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. 自言自语；独白 Edmund ends the scene as he had begun it, with a soliloquy mass noun he did most of his thinking by soliloquy Example sentencesExamples - His scenes play more as brief soliloquies; the characters voicing unspoken thoughts and memories, repeating phrases and exchanging salvos of opaque dialogue.
- Rome communicates his internal dialogue through improvised soliloquies which combine Shakespeare's language with street lingo and gesticulations.
- Occasionally, during the action, a speech is highlighted as a soliloquy.
- In between the aimless, idle play and fear of legal and societal retribution, Green's characters deliver poignant soliloquies on abstract concepts like love, self-worth and the state of the world.
- Statistics from the U.S. Census Report and quirky audience participation sections punctuate sociological debates, scuffles and tormented soliloquies by the characters.
- First the Laurence Olivier scene played on the projector screen; then Anne, a brave woman in the would-be class, read the soliloquy aloud.
- It begins and ends with soliloquies from the security-staff.
- The ridiculous screenplay offers two cathartic scenes, both of which feature characters giving lengthy soliloquies (one in front of a tombstone, another in front of a video camera).
- It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized.
- There seems to be both a haughty reserve that keeps us at a distance during the soliloquies, and an absence of inner mystery to tempt our curiosity in the first place.
- Even the play's slightly awkward structure, with its reminiscent soliloquies and resurrected hero, is made up for in Fugard's own production by the quality of the acting.
- Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events.
- O'Neill is known for stylized dialogue, and the movie is unnaturally verbose, but the characters' long soliloquies often show us as much as they tell us.
- Perched alone on a stage, a character engages in a soliloquy so as to unveil their innermost thoughts to the audience.
- Shatner's 1968 release tried to capture the connection between drama and popular music with pairings of soliloquies of Shakespeare and classic literature with Sinatra and pop songs.
- It worked because in this play, the audience is truly a character, with the entire play consisting of the soliloquies of three characters telling their stories to the audience.
- There were soliloquies from various characters describing what they were plotting, what they were going to do next.
- 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.
- What adds to the ‘unbearable’ nature of this list of curses is their lack of development and drama; for, unlike many of Shakespeare's soliloquies, these lead to no internal insight or external action.
- 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.
Synonyms monologue, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon, homily, stand-up, aside dramatic monologue, interior monologue informal spiel - 1.1 A part of a play involving a soliloquy.
（戏剧中的）独白部分 in the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent Example sentencesExamples - The dissembling and physically deformed Richard, duke of Gloucester, reveals his true purpose in the opening soliloquy of Richard III.
Derivativesnoun səˈlɪləkwɪstsəˈlɪləkwəst Louis, one of the six precious soliloquists in Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, is mortified because - as he keeps on dolefully repeating - his father is ‘a banker in Brisbane’. Example sentencesExamples - That narrative voice begins to speak again after the direct speech of the soliloquist has concluded.
- Latent poets, shy soliloquists, timid town speakers, and reputable recitationists, you are hereby called to the fore to read the particular, popular and prophetic prose of one of Robbie Burns.
verb səˈlɪləkwʌɪzsəˈlɪləˌkwaɪz [no object]Speak one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers; utter a soliloquy. 自言自语；独白 they are prone to soliloquize at length Example sentencesExamples - On it, follies are played out on the topmost level, with anguished lovers soliloquizing on the middle level and earthy courtships and pranks played out on terra firma.
- For an hour and a half, a writer soliloquizes, invades the space, before letting himself be invaded by the music and trying to escape from the performance.
- ‘Ever till now,’ he soliloquizes, ‘When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.’
OriginMiddle English: from late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus 'alone' + loqui 'speak'. Definition of soliloquy in US English: soliloquynounsəˈliləkwēsəˈlɪləkwi 1An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. 自言自语；独白 Edmund ends the scene as he had begun it, with a soliloquy mass noun he did most of his thinking by soliloquy Example sentencesExamples - First the Laurence Olivier scene played on the projector screen; then Anne, a brave woman in the would-be class, read the soliloquy aloud.
- 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.
- In between the aimless, idle play and fear of legal and societal retribution, Green's characters deliver poignant soliloquies on abstract concepts like love, self-worth and the state of the world.
- Occasionally, during the action, a speech is highlighted as a soliloquy.
- The ridiculous screenplay offers two cathartic scenes, both of which feature characters giving lengthy soliloquies (one in front of a tombstone, another in front of a video camera).
- 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.
- O'Neill is known for stylized dialogue, and the movie is unnaturally verbose, but the characters' long soliloquies often show us as much as they tell us.
- It worked because in this play, the audience is truly a character, with the entire play consisting of the soliloquies of three characters telling their stories to the audience.
- It begins and ends with soliloquies from the security-staff.
- Perched alone on a stage, a character engages in a soliloquy so as to unveil their innermost thoughts to the audience.
- There seems to be both a haughty reserve that keeps us at a distance during the soliloquies, and an absence of inner mystery to tempt our curiosity in the first place.
- Rome communicates his internal dialogue through improvised soliloquies which combine Shakespeare's language with street lingo and gesticulations.
- It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized.
- Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events.
- Statistics from the U.S. Census Report and quirky audience participation sections punctuate sociological debates, scuffles and tormented soliloquies by the characters.
- His scenes play more as brief soliloquies; the characters voicing unspoken thoughts and memories, repeating phrases and exchanging salvos of opaque dialogue.
- Shatner's 1968 release tried to capture the connection between drama and popular music with pairings of soliloquies of Shakespeare and classic literature with Sinatra and pop songs.
- There were soliloquies from various characters describing what they were plotting, what they were going to do next.
- What adds to the ‘unbearable’ nature of this list of curses is their lack of development and drama; for, unlike many of Shakespeare's soliloquies, these lead to no internal insight or external action.
- Even the play's slightly awkward structure, with its reminiscent soliloquies and resurrected hero, is made up for in Fugard's own production by the quality of the acting.
Synonyms monologue, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon, homily, stand-up, aside - 1.1 A part of a play involving a soliloquy.
（戏剧中的）独白部分 in the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent Example sentencesExamples - The dissembling and physically deformed Richard, duke of Gloucester, reveals his true purpose in the opening soliloquy of Richard III.
OriginMiddle English: from late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus ‘alone’ + loqui ‘speak’. |