stagy
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It’s about overly noble characters, their stagy exchanges, the manicured squalor of the poor and, for the rich, an opulence that might have arrived courtesy of Wayfair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
With the exception of James Gray’s more cinematically composed “Armageddon Time,” the movies have offered simple, stagy showcases for Hopkins, a lion in winter.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
It’s not just about lightening the mood — humor is a core element of human communication, so its absence makes drama seem more stagy and artificial.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
The first officer stopped and gaped at the man in a stagy way.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Living on bread, butter and fruit, she became a stagier or unpaid apprentice at the bakery of Gerard Mulot, a master pâtissier, boulanger and chocolatier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2013
But the music falters: in dramatizing his novel, Capote has told a stagier story, and brought in more themes than he can orchestrate or develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unconsciously stagey in life, he is little stagier in Lucan.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
Hernani, the first performance of which marked the turning-point of the movement, is a piece of bombastic melodrama, full of the stagiest clap-trap and the most turgid declamation.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
He was the most unstagey actor on the stage, and the stagiest off I ever met.
From A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 by Florence Warden
