stagy

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Luz’s monologue revealing Elliot’s turpitude is a rare stagy moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Every awkwardly declarative, stagy scene in “Bonhoeffer” is just a right-against-wrong equation to be answered by the title character’s virtue.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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

All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

The first officer stopped and gaped at the man in a stagy way.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover