staginess
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The staginess that sinks many of his other pictures portended a digital age where all images would trend toward idealized, Photoshopped perfection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Yes, there’s a staginess to it all: the quintet sitting around on the floor husking vegetables, dismantling a chicken, dining.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
This doesn’t confuse anything: being continually reminded of the artifice of performance helps us forgive the play’s occasional staginess.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019
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
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