Duologue

Word DUOLOGUE
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Definitions and meanings of "Duologue"

What do we mean by duologue?

A dialogue or conversation between two persons. noun

A dialogue or piece spoken by two persons. noun

A conversation between two persons; dialogue. noun

A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers. noun

A part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors noun

A conversation between two persons noun

A conversation between two persons; dialogue.

A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Duologue

The word "duologue" in example sentences

- Egypt dialogue on democratization is really a "duologue" of two independent monologues, stemming from two very different political cultures, in which neither side is clearly listening to the other. ❋ Unknown (2009)

*** Speaking of tough nuts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival has imported Dublin's Gate Theatre revival of "Krapp's Last Tape," Samuel Beckett's hour-long 1958 "duologue" for an angry old writer John Hurt, made up to look like Beckett himself who listens to a tape recording of himself when young and can't stand what he hears. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Not until the 1960s did the critics start to figure out that "Private Lives," his masterpiece, was something more than in his own ironically self-deprecating words "a reasonably well-constructed duologue for two experienced performers, with a couple of extra puppets thrown in to assist the plot and to provide contrast." ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

“I have to leave on a personal trip to Ethiopia, but I wanted to have this conversation now rather than later,” he says, then he turns off his phone, restores it in his pocket and lets me know that he is ready for our duologue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pretty amazing how much the dolls seemed to say without a single word of duologue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The second is also a duologue, but of a rather different kind, between two characters, a Reader and a Listener. ❋ DC (2007)

The first is a duologue in which two men, 'A' and 'B', review the life of 'C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window. ❋ DC (2007)

The hollow spiral, as he knew from old experience, would bring down to his ears the slightest sound from above; and it now revealed to him the words of a duologue in progress at the summit of the tower. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Swithin, in the room overhead, had suspended his calculations, for the duologue interested him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And for the rest there was toil and struggle, toil and struggle with a failing heart and dwindling courage, to sustain that dreary duologue. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then comes the long, complex duologue which, when Hitchcock described it to his first scenarist on the film, Raymond Chandler (legendary creator of detective Philip Marlowe), completely bewildered him. ❋ Unknown (1999)

There is some genuine feeling here; but the climax, in which the pair decide only to fly in company, was dangerously like the end of a stage duologue. ❋ Various (N/A)

The nuns, concluding this triumphant duologue, closed their mouths and modestly dropped their eyes. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1938)

“I understand, I think,” said Mrs. Bradley, not knowing whether to admire most the quick comedy-patter of the duologue, or the self-control with which, having said their say, the nuns switched off, as it were, an electric current, and lapsed into immobile silence. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1938)

They might have their faults, but at least their presence tended to keep the conversation general and prevent it becoming a duologue between Lord Wisbeach and Jimmy on the subject of old times. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Rehearsals had turned him into a pessimist, and, now that the actual moment of production had arrived, his nerves were in a thoroughly jumpy condition, especially as the duologue was to begin in two minutes and the obliging person who had undertaken to prompt had disappeared. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Jimmy, like his lordship, had been trapped at the beginning of the duologue, and had not been able to get away till it was nearly over. ❋ Unknown (1928)

While the duologue was in progress, there had been no chance of Sir Thomas taking it into his head to visit his dressing-room. ❋ Unknown (1928)

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