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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: monologues

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Because Barry's been training his men for the past few episodes, they're now capable of escaping the bus on their own, all while Hank monologues to himself about how he's not cut out for this life.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1259141/will-noho-hank-die-barry-season-4/

Characters explain massively traumatic parts of the backstory in monologues that don’t have any oomph because they come out of nowhere.

Source: https://collider.com/the-flash-season-9-arrowverse-ending/

Each story is told in the first-person, and carries with it a sense of immediacy – sort of like the dramatic monologues in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads (which I also really love), but with all the anxiety and heightened stress of modern life.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23863460.pictish-trails-johnny-lynch-shares-favourite-things-life/?ref=rss

Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical monologues, James Joyce’s erotic letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh and “Antigone.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/theater/under-the-radar-festival-influences.html

He then at least elaborated a bit more in front of the written press, but only insofar as his monologues became more elaborate themselves.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/pep-guardiola-man-city-tottenham-video-b2265868.html

In true 19th-century fashion, “Danton’s Death” is a clash between “great men,” heroes and antiheroes, who frequently launch into lyrical monologues about blood and death.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/theater/dantons-death-comedie-francaise-review.html

Jacky’s themes and messages are clear, but it avoids cliched monologues or any single moment of revelation.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/may/29/jacky-review-incredibly-uncomfortable-thoughtful-theatre

No one knew his pain as he delivered two monologues, a lengthy interview with actor Bradley Cooper and was grabbed to dance by celebrity chef José Andrés, he said.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-ruptured-appendix_n_6578573be4b0db9d2ab701f3

Since Leaving Fox, Carlson has launched 'Tucker on Twitter', a series of straight-to-camera monologues filmed with the help of a handful of loyalists who quit their jobs at the cable channel to help him start a new venture.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1781273/Tucker-Carlson-Fox-News-ousting-Joe-Rogan

That led to a call from HBO in March 2021, and “Game Theory” premiered in analytical monologues, sketches, man-on-the-street segments, and interviews with guests from the sports world, such as ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/03/21/bomani-jones-hbo-game-theory-season-2-espn-podcast-right-time/

“The monologues give them the opportunity to flex some acting muscles they wouldn’t normally get to flex,” he said.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/02/21/manhattan-middle-students-learn-classical-monologues/

The personality she brings to The Nun is reminiscent of Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger or Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown, and she does so without any clever one-liners or sweeping monologues.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1382908/nun-2-bonnie-aarons-next-great-horror-movie-monster-actor/

The program got under way with monologues, prose recitals, improvisations, and mime, and will culminate on Friday, June 23, with poetry recitals.

Source: https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/8243882/young-thespians-emerge-from-stage-wings-for-tamworth-eisteddfod/?src=rss

The story is still great, but some internal monologues that worked on-page come off as cheesy on-screen.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/batman-animated-films-best-worst/

Unfortunately, Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach have dumbed these ideas down in their execution, relying on heavy-handed monologues dispersed throughout the latter half of the film.

Source: https://kenyoncollegian.com/arts/2023/08/excess-consumerism-clouds-feminist-critiques-in-barbie/

While Smith had been quiet and passive, Gross, a Jew from Brooklyn, was extroverted, boisterous, and prone to monologues as soon as he woke.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/joyce-carol-oates-profile