monologist
Americannoun
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monologists
plural
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a person who tends to monologue or soliloquize, especially a person who dominates conversation.
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an actor who performs monologues and soliloquies.
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Bernhard was a monologist fueled by energetic misanthropy, disgust and vitriol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
Each week, a celebrity guest monologist tells stories from their life, which the UCB’s best improvisers then use as inspiration for a long-form show.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2016
“He’s done some really good work as a monologist at those correspondents’ dinners — that’s how he qualifies to be on the show,” Seinfeld said, referring to the annual black-tie gathering of White House reporters.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2015
While she travels extensively and speaks to everyone, she stresses that her monologues are fictional but based on reality, sidestepping the mess that monologist Mike Daisey faced when he admitted to making up conversations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
Any toil is pleasant in the gray of a cool morning, with a friend holding the reins who is a gifted monologist; even imprecations, rightly administered, are only lively punctuations to really talented speech.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now two wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why do all the local monologists speak--I dare say, mind you, if I may say so--in polite British locutions?
From Time Magazine Archive
Some monologists open with a song because they want to get the audience into their atmosphere, and "with" them, before beginning their monologue.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
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