"I just don't understand why he won't get his teaching credential," she soliloquizes.
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We ride with Darnell as he looks back on his career, soliloquizes on the street life, and describes the horror of losing a Super Bowl in the final two minutes of the game.
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"Real Violence" was inspired by a YouTube clip of men fighting that is included in the longer 2017 video "Riverboat Song," in which Mr. Wolfson's cartoonish, Huckleberry Finn-like alter ego sings, dances and soliloquizes in a surreal, web-based alternate reality.
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Matters of veracity have, obviously, been at the center of headline-making controversies lately, but Mr. Ives mostly sails above the fray, only allowing himself a gentle, and generic, allusion in the play's final moments, as Dorante soliloquizes thus: Perhaps I'll go onstage and be an actor.
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He soliloquizes to his sword Excalibur, that they will rise to the challenges they will all face, together.
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Hasangulu bey and Rza bey are among the guests. The musicians play the lezginka. Mashadi Ibad dances with Mirzeyi. Then he soliloquizes that Gulnaz should be held under lock and key, and if she is obstinate, he will beat her.
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The servant exits. Hippolito delivers an elegiac speech as he contemplates a portrait of Infelice. Setting the portrait aside, he turns his attention to a skull that sits on his desk. In a speech reminiscent of Hamlet, he soliloquizes on the absurdity of life and inevitability of death.
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Soon the party disbands and the guests depart into a violent storm. There is a short halt here, where the actor playing Bazzard soliloquizes about how he never seems to be able to get a major part in a show in the song "Never The Luck". The next day Drood has vanished. Crisparkle's assistant discovers Edwin's torn coat by the river.
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Although they violently disagree with each other, both James and Bothwell mistrust Darnley's seeming influence on the young queen, especially Bothwell who is likewise attracted to Mary. She soliloquizes on the rivalry between the three men in her life—"The Three Stars of my Firmament". After an incident at the ball which Bothwell seeks to disrupt by insulting Darnley, Mary banishes Bothwell. James also leaves the court in disgust.
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Reginald Laroche threatens to kill Jamie if Finn does not reveal herself so she reluctantly steps out. Isabella says they should kill Jamie anyway, but Reginald soliloquizes, admitting his guilt in Geoffrey's death and in attempting to kill Hugo. Finn asks them to spare Jamie, as he is only a child, but Reginald insists that both of them will hang. Finn insists that the sheriff is close behind her, but Isabella taunts her.
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Mencía and her slave, Jacinta, receive them. Mencía is recognized as the infante's former lover by Arias, but she cautions him to keep quiet, telling him that her honor depends on it. She sends Jacinta to fetch perfumes and is left alone with Enrique and soliloquizes about her former love for him and the need for her to suppress her emotions to protect her honor. Enrique awakens and expresses his love for her.
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Act 2 At the house of Fleur-de-Lys, who is betrothed to Phoebus, a gathering is underway. Away from the crowd of guests, Phoebus soliloquizes on his love for Esmeralda. She then appears outside the house dancing in the street with a band of Gypsies. When Fleur-de-Lys invites her inside, Esmeralda and Phoebus recognize each other and he declares his love for her in the presence of Fleur-de-Lys and her guests.
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The play opens with a dumbshow prologue that shows Roderigo making a deal with the devil to become Pope Alexander VI. Lodowick convinces Charles of France to go to war against Italy on religious grounds. Two gentlemen lambast the pope's corruption. Gismond and Barbarossa intercept some slander against the pope and Gismond and are upset, promising to find and punish the writer. The Pope soliloquizes about how he made this deal with the devil for the betterment of his sons, Candy and Caesar.
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Act II takes place outdoors in mid-summer on the family estate, near the cherry orchard. The act opens with Yepikhodov and Yasha trying for the affection of Dunyasha, by singing and playing guitar, while Charlotta soliloquizes about her life as she cleans a rifle. In Act I it was revealed that Yepikhodov proposed to Dunyasha around Easter; however, she has since become infatuated with the more "cultured" Yasha. Charlotta leaves so that Dunyasha and Yasha might have some time alone, but that is interrupted when they hear their employer coming.
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When left alone, she > occupies and apparently amuses herself, and seems quite content; and so > strong seems to be the natural tendency of thought to put on the garb of > language, that she often soliloquizes in the finger language, slow and > tedious as it is. But it is only when alone, that she is quiet; for if she > becomes sensible of the presence of any one near her, she is restless until > she can sit close beside them, hold their hand, and converse with them by > sign.Dickens, Charles. American Notes.
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There is a pastoral scene: another woman dressed as shepherd woos Lady Happy but is rejected; the Princess woos Lady Happy and is accepted; there is a dance with a prize awarded to the best dancers, Lady Happy and the Princess. The pastoral scene closes with verses indicated to be written by Margaret Cavendish's husband. The Princess soliloquizes, resolving to remain with Lady Happy rather than return to the masculine outside world. An extended water-nymph scene begins: the Princess, dressed as Neptune, and Lady Happy, dressed as a sea goddess, sit surrounded by sea-nymphs and describe their luxurious underwater kingdom.
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Falstaff cannot believe his luck, and tells 'Brook' he has already arranged to meet Mistress Ford while her husband is out. Falstaff leaves to keep his appointment and Ford soliloquizes that he is right to suspect his wife and that the trusting Page is a fool. When Falstaff arrives to meet Mistress Ford, the merry wives trick him into hiding in a laundry basket ("buck basket") full of filthy, smelly clothes awaiting laundering. When the jealous Ford returns to try and catch his wife with the knight, the wives have the basket taken away and the contents (including Falstaff) dumped into the river.
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