(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has carefully rolled the political pitch for next week's cuts announcement, assisted by Liam Byrne's bizarre "no money left " epilogue on his own time at the Treasury.
(2) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(3) With the film going on general release, the restorers have appended a short video introduction and epilogue that outline the issues involved.
(4) Some of the interiors of this house were meticulously reconstructed for the film's final scene, an epilogue that Dreyer added to the play.
(5) It is not hard to imagine his staunchest critics making advance orders, although fairly certain that they will be disappointed by the time they reach the epilogue.
(6) The Epilogue of this paper examines why important parts of Wertheimer's experimental contributions to psychology may have been underrated or neglected by many contemporary psychologists.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) Novelists don't write epilogues saying "please give me money".
(9) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
(10) Epilogue Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahn celebrates his goal, but nothing would ever be this good again for South Korea's matchwinner.
(11) His widow, Annie, confirms in the epilogue, dated St Valentine's Day 1997, that he meant it.
(12) A crisis was inevitable, and last Friday it arrived , an unsurprising epilogue to a job estimated as being 12 times more deadly than being a US soldier at the height of the Iraq war : 16 people, of whom 13 were Sherpas, were killed in an avalanche as they readied the slopes for the summit window in May.
(13) It was a heartbreaking epilogue to 2014 for Pakistani children, who have seen about 1,000 schools closed by the Taliban in recent years.
(14) This is followed by the author's closing remarks for the last session of the mini-course, an Epilogue.
(15) An epilogue After my story was published, the Consumers Union wrote a letter to the editor strongly disagreeing with its conclusions.
(16) In the epilogue some remarks are made on the possibilities of introduction of the opting out system in countries now applying opting in.
(17) On the contrary, in the case shown by the authors, the subacute epilogue occurred in the perimenopausal phase: a very large colpohematometra is reported in a 49 years old woman, with an incomplete vaginal septum resulting in progressive obstruction.
(18) ON THE NEXT ... Epilogue segment, purportedly sharing clips of the next instalment, but in reality showing non-sequiturs and sight gags.
(19) I’m not surprised.” In the New York Times, Kakutani dismissed the biography as “a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and – given its highly intemperate epilogue – ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive.” A spokesman for Obama declined to comment.
(20) Similarly, I allowed my Handmaid a possible escape, via Maine and Canada; and I also permitted an epilogue, from the perspective of which both the Handmaid and the world she lived in have receded into history.
Monologue
Definition:
(n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
(n.) A dramatic composition for a single performer.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the show and that’s the best and worst thing about it,” he says, before using a recent parody of Beyoncé’s monologues in her visual album Lemonade as an example.
(2) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
(3) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(4) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(5) They are less into the substance and more into the optics.” But there was an underlining danger that a freewheeling, tweet-happy Trump would become irritated with the formulaic pre-approved monologues he was likely to hear from his guest.
(6) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(7) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
(8) Astonishing as it may come to seem to media historians – especially if Desmond fulfils the worst expectations of observers – there was a time when Five specialised, in early evening peak time, in shows in which Tim Marlow delivered a monologue on an artist or art show.
(9) The older group’s videos usually involve a lengthy monologue in Arabic reminding Muslims of their various jihadi duties and little else.
(10) "If you didn't believe it before – and it's easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point – if you didn't believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world" Letterman during his monologue on his first show back after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
(11) It's one of the show's periodic "dark weeks", so the open-plan offices are almost empty, except for Oliver and his boss, Jon Stewart , who emerges briefly to perform an impromptu monologue about his plans to order falafel for lunch.
(12) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
(13) In his opening monologue he also referenced the police shootings in the US: “This year in the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on the way to the movies.” Rock made his personal stance on diversity in the film industry known in December 2014.
(14) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
(15) Ensler's brand of feminism has evolved since The Vagina Monologues.
(16) Four male volunteers provided 5-minute monologues in three conditions: Round 1,placebo; Round 2, 15 mg THC; Round 3, recovery.
(17) It's an unusual evening in a small, intimate theatre: just Lipton and three musicians telling the story, through song and monologue, of a man whose office is about to be relocated far, far away, taking his job with it.
(18) The patient provided 5-minute monologues both before and after drug effects.
(19) Results indicate that the semantic and conversational categories that occurred in monologue speech were similar to those that appeared in contextually matched dialogue speech but the proportional frequencies differed.
(20) He did the monologue, the sketch about the success of his presidency (featuring his daughter Ivanka playing herself), and a few other things, but his appearance was mostly limited to a few stray lines playing the straight man or quick appearances in the pre-taped sketches.