stream of consciousness
Example Sentences
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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
It is a rare skill, crafting prose that reads like stream of consciousness, and Ben Lerner has it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
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
Viewing exhibitions at the Guggenheim is like being conducted through a predetermined stream of consciousness, where everything merges into a total unity.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
