But can the highest form of expressionism really be the exteriorizing, or soliloquizing, of inner, realistic psychological states? |
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Susan Sontag perched on a sofa in her son's room late at night, smoking and soliloquizing about her evening out, while he and his girlfriend lie silently in bed? |
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That's the drama of Beethoven's brawny, odd-numbered symphonies, from the Third through the Ninth, where scenes of a sombre, searching, soliloquizing nature give way to festivities of dancing or marching. |
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Mr. Tennyson went about soliloquizing in deaf-and-dumb language. |
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