Nineteen monologues and nine short poems which are especially adapted to that particular form of entertainment called the pianologue, viz.
Apparently her twenty years' training among artists had prepared her for monologues of this sort.
It bubbled up into monologues from Gratia and Matty.
Glorious Lutie," she began one of the wordless monologues which she was always addressing to the miniature, "I ought to have known long ago that they were a gang of crooks!
The several monologues all going over the same ground, are artistically justified in their exhibiting, each of them, a quite distinct form of this swerving.
The first is the fact that many dramatic monologues use distinctively lyric measures.
The six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge.
The play is scarcely more than a series of melancholy monologues interspersed with not less melancholy dirges from the chorus.
Lyric scenes or even important iambic monologues were taken from their setting and sung as solos upon the stage.
This conditions the peculiar construction of Beyle's novels, which consist in great part of connected monologues that are at times several pages long.
The audience doubtless welcomed long monologues if they were well delivered and presented ideas of worth.
The conditions of the entry or the reëntry of a player might explain some of those lengthy monologues that seem so inartistic to modern dramatists.
Those who have read Browning for years and are used to the monologues are better pleased to find the old ideas than new ones, which they could not understand so readily.
They will say that the philosophic monologues are repetitions of each other.
And it must be confessed that the monologues spoken by contemporaries or by those Americans who talk from the graveyard of Spoon River, are superior to the attempts at interpreting great historical figures.
Outside of the monologuesand the epitaphs, the work of Mr. Masters is mainly unimpressive.
In the successive monologues of his poem, Browning is endeavouring to depict the various strange ways in which a fact gets itself presented to the world.
This is the real truth which lies at the heart of what may be called the great sophistical monologues which Browning wrote in later years.
Can any one read Browning's great monologues and not feel that they are built up like a good short story, entirely on this principle of the value of language arising from its arrangement.
This tendency to casuistry in Browning's monologues has done much towards establishing for him that reputation for pure intellectualism which has done him so much harm.
His little book, 'Monologues of the Dead,' can never become popular, since it needs for its appreciation an amount of scholarship which comparatively few possess.
The Monologuesof the Dead' was a brilliant beginning.
It was true that a word or look from Flip generally brought these monologues to an inglorious and abrupt termination, but they were none the less lugubrious as long as they lasted.
To write vaudeville material is to write monologues and playlets and the other forms of stage speech used in vaudeville acts.
Every gag and every point of great monologues are told in words that paint pictures.
In very rare cases monologues are so good and, therefore, so valuable that authors can retain the ownership and rent them out for a weekly royalty.
But such monologues are so rare they can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Our monologues leave on our brows a faint reflection, distinguishable to the eye of a physiognomist.
Barkilphedro approached the queen, and so close that sometimes he fancied he heard the monologues of her Majesty.
One who rendersmonologues and omits this peculiar melodic element will fail to give the fundamental element in dialect.
It is a series of monologues by different speakers, each character being separately defined, and his words and ideas definitely colored by his character, as in "The Ring and the Book.
Browning certainly does in many of his monologues suggest most decided action.
Many feel that any representation in words of a mood or feeling is a lyric; hence they regard most monologues as lyrics.
The dactyl is used in some of the most pathetic and passionate monologues of the language.
The fact that we meet a number of monologues before Browning's time shows the naturalness and the necessity of this dramatic form; yet it is only in Browning that the monologue becomes profoundly significant.
Each speaker in these monologueshas a character of his own, and the facts are strongly colored according to his nature and point of view.
The metre, in this case, as in all monologues expressive of humor, must give the real spirit of the character; when once we realize the situation and the feeling, the right vocal expression of the metric form is a natural result.
Others have followed him in its use, but his monologues remain the most numerous, varied, and expressive.
Though many monologues are lyric in spirit, they are more frequently dramatic.
This was not altogether the case with Browning, who, despite an unquenchable appetency for drama, did better work in his dramatic monologues than in his plays.
They are not even monologues of the old brilliantly dramatic kind.
These two monologues belong to the most finished achievements of Browning.
In all, the book contains eight Monologuesand two Duologues.
For much of this declamation Rossini substituted singing; for endless monologues and dialogues supported by a few chords, concerted pieces connected and supported by a brilliant orchestral accompaniment.
Lucrezia Borgia contains less recitative than belongs to the operas of Rossini, who himself dispensed with the endless monologues and recitatives cultivated by his predecessors.
Fletcher has spoiled the character by the introduction of the badly-written monologues uttered by Wolsey after his fall.
Iago in hismonologues is incessantly giving himself reasons for his hatred.
He is addicted to monologues and cultivates the drama.
In successive monologues Browning is endeavouring to depict the various strange ways a fact gets itself presented to the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monologues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
