soliloquy
suh li luh kwee
- n speech you make to yourself
- n a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
- For an awkward 20 seconds or so, the Democratic nominee looked a little concerned about Biden's soliloquy.
- There were indeed times in his farewell soliloquy when the entire world seemed merely an extension of his own benevolence.
- For a far better, less embittered, summation of this loss, read the soliloquy from Hamlet that gave Wallace's great novel its title.