monologist

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  1. One who talks in monologue or soliloquizes.
  2. A monopolizer of conversation. De Quincey.

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  • Cheryl hadn't come, though, and I couldn't take sitting next to that empty chair The third act ended with the monologist (my cranky alter-ego) putting his hand over the gun on his desk while the lights adjusted, turning him into a dark cipher. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Sometimes there's been someone else from the arts: Kathleen Tolan, a playwright, or Jennifer Schelter, a monologist, or Nick Flynn, another writer. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • Just ask any of the Los Angeles audience who were inside the Cheetah Club the night Alice Cooper took the stage as the first act to perform as part of a memorial concert in honor of haunted monologist Lenny Bruce. —  Musicrooms.net - Music Games Movies - The Latest News, Reviews, Interviews And Videos
  • He's incredibly well read, and a monologist by trade, so he makes for an excellent conversation partner. —  DarrenBarefoot.com
  • Nilaja Sun, acclaimed monologist Barry Levey returns with his latest show, this time exploring contemporary Jewish identity with some of the most celebrated Holocaust Revisionists in the field today. —  BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
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  1. = Spanish monologista; as monologue + -ist.
 

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