Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who talks in monologue or soliloquizes.
- noun A monopolizer of conversation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who performs
monologues
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an entertainer who performs alone
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Examples
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I can't imagine, like, being a monologist and rehearsing by yourself.
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I can't imagine, like, being a monologist and rehearsing by yourself.
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Some tennis inconveniently interrupted here, in the style possibly of Chris's life partner handing round the After Eights, but our monologist was not about to be thrown off his stride: I hear he's not a great listener, but the sarcasm we believe it is when he's talking to his box like that, how are they feeling right now?
Offbeat Chris Bradnam surges ahead in the wacky commentator race 2011
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His delivering it dressed head-to-toe in black and seated at a table with only a stack of papers, a glass of water and a folded black handkerchief for wiping sweat from his face Ella Fitzgerald-like before him and behind him only a spare grid with pinpoint lights provided by Seth Reiser, undoubtedly reminds theater-goers of monologist Spalding Gray's now silenced performing.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple David Finkle 2011
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This correspondence demonstrates that Feynman was not only a great monologist but a good teacher and interlocutor.
A Curious Mind Carl Rollyson 2011
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Don't let me die like this, so God in the form of the monologist sends an ice boat that has gotten loose from its moorings and is spinning crazily across the lake, and the pastor manages to jump into the hull of the ice boat as the car begins to sink.
Woebegone Mark Pritchard 2011
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A monologist The Last Cargo Cult who views storytelling as a form of social activism, Daisey embraces Apple technology -- the MacBook Air is "so thin you could slice a sandwich with it" -- and sends up the obsessions it spawns -- with comic glee.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, White Fern Siegel 2011
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A monologist The Last Cargo Cult who views storytelling as a form of social activism, Daisey embraces Apple technology -- the MacBook Air is "so thin you could slice a sandwich with it" -- and sends up the obsessions it spawns -- with comic glee.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, White Fern Siegel 2011
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A monologist The Last Cargo Cult who views storytelling as a form of social activism, Daisey embraces Apple technology -- the MacBook Air is "so thin you could slice a sandwich with it" -- and sends up the obsessions it spawns -- with comic glee.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, White Fern Siegel 2011
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But "monologist" is only one part of Daisey's description, since unlike Gray, he doesn't delve unsparingly into his own psyche.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple David Finkle 2011
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