stagy
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Kit Harington and Mirren Mack star in a screen version of the classic novel that, in its stagy artifice, follows a familiar pattern among recent period pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
“Because ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ takes place almost entirely in the same hotel room over the course of several weeks, it could easily feel stagy or monotonous or cramped.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2022
Now he pauses outside the bathroom door, clears his throat, a stagy ahem.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Living on bread, butter and fruit, she became a stagier or unpaid apprentice at the bakery of Gerard Mulot, a master pâtissier, boulanger and chocolatier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2013
But the music falters: in dramatizing his novel, Capote has told a stagier story, and brought in more themes than he can orchestrate or develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
The host asked again, in a stagier whisper, and made signs with his head toward the other room.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
He was the most unstagey actor on the stage, and the stagiest off I ever met.
From A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 by Florence Warden
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
Hernani, the first performance of which marked the turning-point of the movement, is a piece of bombastic melodrama, full of the stagiest clap-trap and the most turgid declamation.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
