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Example sentences for: monologue
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Lala Bonilla (Rosario Dawson), the amusingly named Delilah dispatched to seduce the young star, gets a monologue near the end in which she justifies her actions on socioeconomic grounds.
"About as entertaining as having blood drawn," says Peter Marks in a vicious New York Times pan of John Gray's Broadway show (half monologue, half audience participation) based on his best-selling advice book about gender roles and personal growth.
When presidential candidates brag about their "dialogue with the American people," as they inevitably do, what they really mean, of course, is their "monologue at the American people."
Her monologue has some funny, dislocating observations: the unsophisticated ways of her folks juxtaposed against her newly acquired yuppie tastes, her need to sneak around like a teen-ager when a boyfriend comes to stay and, especially, her dislocation when, after taking her brother to the hospital for chemotherapy, she finds herself suddenly playing his part, as if, she says, she's at a square dance.
The Slums of Beverly Hills also walks a line between two genres, in this case coming-of-age sex comedy and autobiographical monologue.