interior monologue
nounDefinition of interior monologue
: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
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All those interior monologues and descriptive parsings of emotional states? — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, "When movies take a novel approach," 15 Aug. 2019 For the most part, though, Enzo is just a dog with an interior monologue. — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, "‘Art of Racing in the Rain’ heavy on sentiment, cliches," 8 Aug. 2019 For the most part, though, Enzo is just a dog with an interior monologue. — Lindsey Bahr, chicagotribune.com, "‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ review: Milo Ventimiglia stars in an ice cream sundae of emotion with a dog on top," 7 Aug. 2019 For the most part, though, Enzo is just a dog with an interior monologue. — Lindsey Bahr, Houston Chronicle, "‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ goes to the dogs," 7 Aug. 2019 We are invited to consider the solitude of the school lunch hour, when Charlie Brown must sit with his thoughts, literally: each of the panels below the top row features the lone figure and a speech bubble giving voice to his interior monologue. — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, "How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking," 6 Aug. 2019 Modern stories frequently plunge us into lengthy interior monologues, exhaustively describe settings and people’s physical features, delight in the random, absurd, and orthogonal, and end with deliberate ambiguity. — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, "The Story of Storytelling," 10 Mar. 2019 And so the pages of Berlin cut, sometimes abruptly, from street shots to close-ups, from train tracks to interior monologues, from newspapers to parlor rooms, and from one character to another. — Sarah Boxer, The New York Review of Books, "Berlin Before the Storm," 7 Mar. 2019 Betty’s interior monologue spells all this out for us: What kind of business does Mr. Lodge have with Sister Woodhouse and how are the Blossoms connected to it? — Jessica Macleish, Teen Vogue, ""Riverdale" Recap Season 3 Episode 7: Why Has No One Noticed Betty Is Missing?," 6 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interior monologue.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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