monologue
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But she cited her earlier performance as Muriel in Alan Bennett's monologue Soldiering On, as one of her proudest moments.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Still, Gervais remained undeterred, doubling and tripling down on his comedy and delivering a since-viral “I don’t care” monologue during his final hosting stint.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The lead single from her second album, That Day, was a free-verse stream-of-consciousness that sounded like a manic inner monologue.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
As Tao described their inner monologue: “It’s too hard—I’m not going to try.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
As if to emphasize that she has everything “down pat” she delivers the monologue in a rhythmic, almost singsong way.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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You can’t really blame them if their response to the self-absorbed internal monologues of an unreliable narrator is, Oh, boo hoo.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
So when I read it, I was like, “Oh, OK. That’s like those five-page monologues that you don’t get very often to do for one character in one episode.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
On one weekend in Tokyo, hundreds of visitors flocked to a zine fair showcasing a wide range of handmade magazines in different sizes and formats -- some incorporating abstract designs, photography or personal monologues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
In one of his first monologues, he pointed out his boss in the audience, then-network-head Les Moonves, manning a switch that could kill Colbert’s show in favor of reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Aureliano ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought he understood something of what Melquíades was saying in his groping monologues, and he paid attention.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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