How to Use interior monologue in a Sentence

interior monologue

noun

• For the most part, though, Enzo is just a dog with an interior monologue.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
• There’s no interior monologue in the film, so that struggle isn’t quite so legible in the movie.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022
• Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• We’ve been deprived of June’s interior monologue all episode.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 16 May 2018
• Bareilles' music — her songs often function as interior monologues and are suffused with hope — was the key factor.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• 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, 7 Mar. 2019
• But drama is all about dramatic action, which is hard to reveal with somebody’s interior monologue.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
• Rodgers’s performance deepens the unsettling mood of Feito’s interior monologue, about a New York mom haunted by the success of her husband’s latest mystery novel.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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, 6 Aug. 2019
• White presents the story mainly through narration that reveals Brad’s interior monologues.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• His verse often seems like an interior monologue on which the reader is casually eavesdropping.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• But without the benefit of interior monologues, the show can waft abstractly into incoherence.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
• Liza’s inner story, which is also dramatized and also features her narration (her interior monologue), is far more troubled.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• All those interior monologues and descriptive parsings of emotional states?
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Both earlier books feature the interior monologues and exterior dealings of Lerner-types.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2019
• In pages-long, often dialogue-heavy sections without paragraph breaks, quotation marks or full stops, Petterson shares his character’s interior monologue.
  — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Intriguingly, the two novels mirror each other in their structure, both being divided into four interior monologues.
  — Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• No one wanted an earnest, low-tech adventure story featuring a shelter dog without superpowers or some snappy interior monologues.
  — Stephen Battaglio, latimes.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• Penn Badgley returns as Joe, the stalker-murderer bookstore manager with sad eyes and a ceaselessly cynical interior monologue.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
• But now his personal troubles have become the focal point, interior monologues dressed up with occasional musical flourishes.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• Sullivan workshopped his identity and his relationships, committing to the page an interior monologue of self-discovery that paralleled the gay-liberation movement, the burgeoning transgender-rights movement, and the AIDS crisis.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• The concerto became a dramatic push-pull, the orchestra launching ideas in extroverted fashion, Altstaedt refashioning them as interior monologue.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• His thoughts are never directly communicated, whether by contrived narration or interior monologue.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 June 2021
• Both are composed of autobiographical observations presented as if in transcription of an interior monologue.
  — David L. Ulin, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• 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, 10 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024