stage business
Example Sentences
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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
But what does that bit of symbolically freighted stage business feel like if you’re Elton John?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019
The stage business is nonstop, anemically set up and distracting.
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019
Dinner sees a traffic jam of rolling carts parked tableside for various bits of stage business, some of which are pointless.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2017
The action of farce is typically a string of blow-ups, stage business highly dependent on fast pacing.
From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by Mountfort, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
