| This, the story about the dustman, reads like one of his monologues, with the added advantage of turning out to be a very creepy ghost story. |
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| This lends a surreal tone to proceedings, especially during Matilda's monologues about herself and family. |
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| And in early drafts there were long first-person monologues from Jonah's point of view. |
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| I could cut a few monologues, but the parts that don't advance the story are the funniest ones. |
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| These devices are also used as linking pieces between monologues, and help give the production a unified feel. |
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| The lights would rise on each musician as they had their solos, like theatrical monologues, then fade back into the darkness. |
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| He does more with an eyebrow and a nod than most actors do with full monologues. |
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| In a lot of scenes I come on and do these very brief, very tense monologues, and go off, each time to the point of breakdown. |
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| In the first of three monologues we meet Andy, parking meter engineer with a very strange family. |
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| It is obviously not a play and, like its predecessor, it is a loosely knit series of monologues on birth and motherhood. |
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| The acting is not always up to the high musical standard, and at times the monologues are almost inaudible beneath the band's volume. |
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| His evenings were devoted to a small circle of cronies to whom he delivered monologues on any subject that caught his fancy. |
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| Ronnie Corbett's much loved chair monologues make a welcome return as does a brand new weekly news update along with the duo's famous sign-off. |
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| This plot device enables us to hear Nicholson's inner feelings without resort to awkward monologues. |
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| I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what? |
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| Their monologues, pretentious, thick or plain naff, provide a sort of alternative history for the age of celebrity. |
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| Despite its broadness, there's a remarkable honesty to the show, likely because several monologues take place in her therapist's office. |
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| Their internal monologues and many of their conversations are liberally sprinkled with French words and phrases. |
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| He works within a narrower spectrum, bringing to life a series of monologues for inter-related and cadaverously fleshed-out dummies. |
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| His moving delivery and inspirational monologues give heart to the whole spectacle. |
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| Shapiro does not offer monologues or narratives but poetic dramas in which multiple voices are allowed on the stage. |
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| The piece also cunningly exploits the writer's own gift for confessional monologues. |
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| But in the middle of the gallery, there's a circular seating area from which emanate the sounds of various female monologues. |
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| There will be comedy routines, monologues and young people playing music of all descriptions and tastes. |
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| The sound mix is monaural, with some echo in spots to give it the illusion of depth, especially during internal monologues. |
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| We are left with learned dialogues of the deaf, consisting solely of competing scholarly monologues in the present. |
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| Once again we get a series of monologues skewering this or that human folly through one of its typical embodiers. |
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| Sitting at either end of a long pub lounge, the characters tell their parallel stories by means of disconnected, intertwined monologues. |
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| For what it's worth, I don't think Jay has gone easy on Arnold in the monologues but he has certainly left himself wide open to the charge. |
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| My drama teacher made us do monologues from Animal Farm, which is a sure-fire way of ruining any book. |
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| Some said it was retaliation for Rick's daylong monologues, ranging in tone from hilarious to somewhat acidic. |
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| Delivering the monologues are six actresses, each portraying a different type of mother. |
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| Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions. |
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| From two monologues we hear many voices describing the lovers' adulterous affair and their plan to kill Kesa's husband. |
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| The actors conceived and workshopped their own monologues, creating a well integrated show despite the diverse subject matter. |
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| The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral. |
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| The imbalanced pacing makes it difficult to appreciate the profound monologues and witty repartee that follow the long stretches of absurdity. |
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| Most contemporaries cannot identify with the pious monk and virtuoso repenter who bored his superior with six-hour monologues about his sin. |
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| Although, his descriptions of individuals and exotic locales would seem effective as monologues as well. |
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| This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues. |
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| It's too bad that most of his monologues were so focused on current events because it made them hard to watch now. |
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| Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen. |
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| The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel sang three of Hans Sachs' monologues with a depth of dramatic penetration that was awesome. |
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| However, his inner and outer selves are constant and we do not see, in his monologues, the base evil of his Machiavellian soul. |
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| There are some great loopy monologues and absurd dialogues, with none of the usual self-consciousness. |
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| There will be solos and medleys of war songs, a singalong, and sketches and monologues also familiar from the war years. |
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| His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues. |
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| After completing their monologues, the cast collapse in a heap on the stage. |
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| The intolerable toneless monologues of the last few auditions made a couple of people go to sleep. |
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| Ham gets all glum about the circumstances and talks to himself a great deal in mind-bendingly long non-internal monologues. |
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| Lindsay also writes several dramatic monologues for cab drivers, gardeners, or barely disguised versions of his working self. |
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| This mix of ancient and modern stories lets him vary his theatrical styles from knockabout comedy and storm effects to touching monologues and ethnic songs. |
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| The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality. |
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| There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation. |
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| The openings have gone from simplistic to extravagant, featuring funny monologues, dance numbers, and lots of celebrities. |
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| However, I find conversations more interesting than monologues. |
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| The new recruits, studying with Crooked House Theatre Company, will perform a series of scenes, monologues and duologues from diverse and interesting plays. |
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| Molly may address us from a psychiatric hospital, yet the intelligence and insight of her monologues, most saliently when they describe her mental state, argue for her sanity. |
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| If the book were a piece of music, it would be a sonata of interlocking monologues. |
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| It was the most challenging of the pieces with stream-of-consciousness dialogue and monologues freely mixed together as a man and a woman meet on a beach. |
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| We're tired of Lori's yapping mouth and boastful monologues. |
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| This pretentious, precious, pseudo-poetic, name-dropping drivel is one of those endless monologues that in the hands of an arrogant, untalented twit become menaces to society. |
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| Sometimes they were monologues, sometimes they were playlets. |
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| They used their monologues to snipe at each other, with Letterman piling on Jay just for kicks. |
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| His to-the-camera monologues are absolutely the best thing about the film. |
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| While the poems work as dramatic monologues in their own right, they are also metaphors for the human search for faith and truth, in art, religion and, yes, even voodoo dolls. |
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| In between karaoke bits and feverish dance breaks, diesel delivers a few heartfelt monologues to the camera. |
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| Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply. |
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| Towards the end of the play, through a series of monologues, the council leaders, community elders and police hint at their desire to carry on as if everything is fine. |
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| But even if you don't have movie-studio muscle to devote to your monologues, there are still ways to make a splash in the vlogosphere. |
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| He stops the monologues and we begin to chat about the script. |
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| Jimson is a total nonconformist and his god is William Blake, whom he quotes endlessly in his somewhat Joycean interior monologues. |
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| Part JT Le Roy, part Evelyn Waugh, part Penny Arcade, the show is humorous and genuinely raw, combining outspoken monologues and music. |
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| Instead, the show is substituting monologues for character growth. |
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| Among the intelligentsia he was best known for his fervent but pointless monologues, or his mansuetudinous dialogues with himself. |
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| The novel contained about 1200 pages of pure pontification, and monologues by protagonists who could not be more officious and obnoxious. |
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| With a generosity and humility too rare in our era of monologues and monomanias, he has entered into a wholehearted dialogue with thinkers of every philosophical orientation. |
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| The mysterious strings of words and numbers hint at inner monologues, whispered confessions, overheard snatches of conversation, and free floating streams of consciousness. |
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