Both of them are dominated by soliloquies by their subjects on their views of the future.

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He was widely known, and frequently parodied, for his humorous, dyspeptic soliloquies about aspects of the modern world he found bothersome.

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He seems to belong to a different play, one of long, anguished soliloquies interspersed with occasional knockabout intermissions with great sports figures of the past.

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Brown cuts soliloquies short and rejects long memos and thick binders.

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And his extended soliloquies are also a way for him to mock his reputation, well deserved, according to accounts of some of his Senate colleagues over the years, for having an explosive temper.

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