stage business
Example Sentences
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The excessive stage business in “Our Class” often distracts from the story.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
Another part of his success was his ability to negotiate intricate stage business in an opera in which the action can become so complicated that almost nobody can follow it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
Other actors came up with bits of stage business in another scene, detailing the moments before the evening SNN newscast went live.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
But what does that bit of symbolically freighted stage business feel like if you’re Elton John?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019
In his peculiar notation, Asides are marked by inverted commas, and obvious stage business is indicated by an obelus.
From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by Clark, William George
