stream of consciousness
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It’s the breath marks of Emily Dickinson, the stream of consciousness of Virginia Woolf, the head-clogging maximalism of David Foster Wallace, the self-aggrandizing asides of Joel Stein.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
“That tendency to ramble, to elaborate on stream of consciousness and to brag shamelessly — all of those things have become much stronger, and much less coherent than in 2016 and 2020,” Rowland said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024
As she drove to work along Lake Washington Boulevard one day last summer, TEB took out her phone and started recording a stream of consciousness about dating, romance and self-love.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023
He didn’t just spin legato lines in the searching, conversational Nocturne; he expounded entire legato paragraphs in an eloquent, unbroken stream of consciousness.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
When he gives notes to the cast in the order in which he has written them into the journal, they come out in a kind of stream of consciousness.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
