staginess
Example Sentences
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No one has ever written an alternate history that didn’t reek of staginess, but Mr. Boyne’s cast comes coated with greasepaint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The two middle stories in particular are marked by a certain staginess, a sense of visual abstraction, that points to the movie’s origins in Volorzhbit’s 2017 play, also titled “Bad Roads.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
A hint of staginess in the acting — Donovan and Christopher Herring, who plays a library assistant, are frequent culprits — often adds to the sense of artifice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018
He wanted nothing phony: no infallible fathers, no staginess, no hammy dialogue, no fake kids.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
He looks like a rock star, but he has none of a rock star’s swagger and braggadocio and staginess.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
