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
  • We’ve been deprived of June’s interior monologue all episode.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 16 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His verse often seems like an interior monologue on which the reader is casually eavesdropping.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
  • White presents the story mainly through narration that reveals Brad’s interior monologues.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • All those interior monologues and descriptive parsings of emotional states?
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Two such traits, being thin-skinned and suffering from an interior monologue of unending self-doubt, are often identified as negatives.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Although common in fiction forms such as the novel, interior monologue has sparked controversy when used in works of literary journalism.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • But without the benefit of interior monologues, the show can waft abstractly into incoherence.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Look Who’s Talking, in which Bruce Willis voices the interior monologue of a wisecracking baby.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Both earlier books feature the interior monologues and exterior dealings of Lerner-types.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 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
  • His thoughts are never directly communicated, whether by contrived narration or interior monologue.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • Mann says to himself in a revelatory interior monologue featured at the start of the film’s trailer, sitting meditatively in the Buick with Erika at the wheel.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • The shiba inu is sometimes overlaid with ironic interior monologues in comic sans font, as the website KnowYourMeme points out, or photoshopped to take on different forms, such as a loaf of bread.
    — Julian Mark, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Penn Badgley returns as Joe, the stalker-murderer bookstore manager with sad eyes and a ceaselessly cynical interior monologue.
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Both are composed of autobiographical observations presented as if in transcription of an interior monologue.
    — David L. Ulin, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024

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