Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a monologue.

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  • adjective relating to a monologue

Etymologies

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monologue + -ic

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Examples

  • For in my view, and I have attended IAW events in the past, it is precisely on university campuses that this kind of monologic debate needs not to be shut down but at least and always challenged and called into question.

    Progressive Bloggers spurs 2010

  • The hermetic, which alone shuts the poet in and keeps the reader out, is not desirable, but on one level poetry is always an oracle-like monologic discourse: the possible transformations of expression, all the many layers and structures that demand repeated readings.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • The expounding of the Dharma is in one sense then really the Buddha's monologic expression of his own self-enjoyment in samadhic bliss.

    Laughter 2009

  • On the technical and stylistic level, it can't be denied that Tarantino still manages the occasional sparkling passage: Landa's virtually monologic opening exchange with a French farmer whom he suspects of harboring Jews is a taut, swift piece of scripting, and the excellent Michael Fassbender is pitch-perfect as the witty, debonair proto-Bond Lt. Archie Hicox.

    Michael Judge: The Problem With Tarantino: He Has Nothing to Say 2009

  • Sometimes, most all of this would be touched on in a single universe-expanding conversation that would verge on the monologic.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Sometimes, most all of this would be touched on in a single universe-expanding conversation that would verge on the monologic.

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHILIP LAMANTIA! 2008

  • Isn't this the selfsame monologic, "I Speak, You Listen" old-media model they're always decrying?

    Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • Isn't this the selfsame monologic, "I Speak, You Listen" old-media model they're always decrying?

    Journos turned Bloggers vs Writers turned Bloggers Ben Barren 2005

  • I have already pointed to this kind of transubtantiation of the lower into the higher (or the ignoble into the noble form) in the case of "solidarity" (or universality) into "unanimity"; of the transubtantiation of the whole idiom of "totalism" into "wholism"; of all logic and monologic into ecologic and dialogic.

    Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Summing up, then, we have learned that clever-if-often-clunky prose eschews technical complexity in favor of substantive complexity, whereas more technically refined prose suffers from monologic authoritarianism, represses otherness, and occludes difference.

    PKD and Style 2006

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