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soliloquize

[suh-lil-uh-kwahyz] / səˈlɪl əˌkwaɪz /




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But people do tend to soliloquize in Chekhov, if not as much as in Shakespeare.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2011

Arrayed before us on Freudian couches, the Nixons and Maos soliloquize about their youthful days of personality formation.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2011

But did your alter egos get to soliloquize in song?

From New York Times May 6, 2010

By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whew—on a roll, off to the races, put on this earth solely to soliloquize to his ginormous clay-covered shoes.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

At moments, he soliloquizes on topics such as beauty and metaphors.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2021

“Sometimes more life lies hidden in the opening of a door than in a question,” Jakob soliloquizes as he wanders the Institute’s labyrinthine hallways.

From The Guardian Jun. 19, 2020

Shakespeer: A guy who soliloquizes at a urinal.

From Washington Post Mar. 19, 2015

I read somewhere," Dolan soliloquizes at one point, "that on average each of us is exposed to something like 5,000 advertising messages a day.

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2013

Another new and very singular drama opens with Bonaparte, who soliloquizes about Spain.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

He shook his head as if I were lying or whining, then soliloquized about Carlson’s defense of traditional masculinity.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2024

Resorting to his accustomed modesty, Mr. Kitman, tongue planted firmly in cheek, also soliloquized on his bona fides as a constructive critic rather than a chronic kvetch.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

Hundreds attended a 2018 retirement party held at Mitla’s banquet room, where customer after customer soliloquized Reyes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2020

And reality TV star Khloe Kardashian soliloquized aTwitter changes business of celebrity endorsementsbout the brand of jeans that accentuates the famous Kardashian derriere.

From Washington Post Nov. 3, 2011

Do you know how long it takes to sound out a word like soliloquized?

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

We even got the comedy of the dubiously banned-from-soccer ex-FIFA boss Sepp Blatter soliloquizing about the integrity of his former employer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Though Levin’s show is cut from the same cloth as Limbaugh’s—aging white dude soliloquizing for three hours about his interesting opinions—it is dyed in a different pattern.

From Slate Jun. 4, 2020

Turing makes a few soliloquizing cameos in “Machines Like Me,” functioning essentially as the novel’s conscience.

From The New Yorker Apr. 15, 2019

When she’s ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2019

Bent ox er their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent- minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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