Note that frequency can be citational or monological, that is, it can come from circulation or from self-repetition. From Wordnik.com. [I cite] Reference
Considered as a whole, however, television is anything but monological. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of Andy Sipowicz | PopPolitics.com] Reference
It is a pity that RYD's Sri Aurobindo is so monological and one-dimensional. From Wordnik.com. [Promotionalism and politics] Reference
Gray may not have invented the monological art, but he certainly did it better than anyone else who tried. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture] Reference
Billboards are designed as monological messages aimed at a target audience zipping past in cars in a defined direction, such as a one way street. From Wordnik.com. [GARDEN SPOTS: Renegade air gardening for NYC | Inhabitat] Reference
Whereas talk radio, with its adulatory “reader call-ins” that do nothing to modulate its monological format and leader-worship, is better suited to Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Evidence] Reference
Anyway, so for a therapist, it is obviously desirable to be second tier and no longer embedded in the monological views of the first tier value systems and worldviews. From Wordnik.com. [Value Systems in Psychotherapy] Reference
Decisionism—as exemplified by Carl Schmitt—departs from a monological concept of subjectivity and postulates a prediscursive kernel that acts as the nucleus of decisions, without reference to ethical norms. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
His renewal of the Kantian heritage has something in common with the post-Kantian tactic of delegating to non-philosophical discourses an authority no longer sustainable within the monological meta-language traditionally attributed to philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
July 30th, 2009 at 7: 09 pm with global supplies of oil peaking we are now at the beginning of energy descent. this means industrialised oil-based factory farms will collapse as a system. this is great for animals, but not great for monological scientists who keep inventing psuedo-green technology that relies upon the continuation of brown tech industries. we have to design new settlements based on low-energy consumption. permaculture addresses all these things. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Feathers May Fuel Hydrogen Cars in the Future | Inhabitat] Reference
Furthermore, the monological principle is not one that was used by our Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
The difficulty with monological activity is that it renders the hearer passive. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
Nor does it follow that the dialogical principle forbids the use of the monological method. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
Both the lecturer and the discussion leader can be either monological or dialogical, even though they are using different methods. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
And most importantly, because mystical spirituality was monological-it didn't understand what postmodernists call "the myth of the given.". From Wordnik.com. [unalog] Reference
The Reader, for which he wrote the screenplay, has sparked some more of his monological ruminations: on Berlin in general at the Royal Court. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
That image is partly a product of the monological understanding of communication, and partly a result of the human need to justify oneself by an oversimplified function. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
Much of the church's so-called communication is monological, with preachers and teachers telling their hearers, both adults and children, the message they think they should know. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
Those who have studied the dynamics of communication and the process by which it occurs are convinced that the monological principle is contradictory to the nature of communication, and as a method is the least effective. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
As for King Thomas, the last of the monological succession, he made such a piece of work with his prophecies and his sarcasms about our little trouble with some of the Southern States, that we came rather to pity him for his whims and crotchets than to get angry with him for calling us bores and other unamiable names. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
They order these matters better in Oceania (in Nineteen Eighty-Four), where Winston Smith’s job is to erase inconsistencies of fact and policy day by day, to ensure the totalitarian ideal of a frictionless monological discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Orwells BBC Broadcasts: Colonial Discourse and the Rhetoric of Propaganda] Reference
“monological,” takes a less benign view of this mode of description (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Reasoning] Reference
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