stagey
stagy

In the end the answer was simple: He made it stagey.

The movie was thought to be too stagey in its own day, but that's the charm for us now.

"Of course, a lot of the new ones are so stagey," he said.

The book is written in the present tense, a difficult and potentially stagey narrative mode.

They gaze this way and that in stagey grief.

Static, stagey and rather self-conscious, they just stand around.

My enormous one-bedroom suite was also rather stagey, looking better at a distance than up close.

Have them look real, you know, instead of stagey."

The sequence is stagey, two politicians performing on camera.

Her voice stayed in the whisper, though it sounded hoarser and less stagey now.

They are stagey, ingenious - with lots of jokes.

Variety called the film "stagey, sombre and generally confusing fare."

The man grinned and grimaced in a stagey manner.

He cleared his throat, seemingly moved to strong emotion, although Alan thought the last line had been a bit stagey.

He had a stagey melodramatic voice and looked, suitably, like an American bald eagle.

The mood is stagey and cinematic, although no obvious story line is suggested.

Spoken in any other tone, that last word would have been melodramatic, ridiculously stagey.

And the man himself was essentially stagey.

If they were being monitored, his glance and shrug would look as stagey to anyone else as it did to her.

The result was a little stagey.

There's a certain datedness to the stagey poses and all the dense, textured atmosphere.

Say something, Gillda said in a ringing, stagey way.

The whole thing was so stagey.

Burks' fluid camera, however, avoids a stagey look to the production."

What works less well is the broad stagy story built around her.

It includes a lot of stagy violence and some strong language.

Even if they really do this all the time, the execution of the scene is stagy at best.

Also somewhat stagy but far more effective is the show's photography.

More stagy photographs of places and occasions have even less interest.

Raul turned, saw the gun, stopped, held out his hands in a stagy way.

It's an old-fashioned moment of reckoning, and the line could feel too stagy by half.

Nevertheless, they said, the pyrotechnics of the attack looked far too stagy.

My memory of the 1963 version is that it was artsy and very stagy.

The formerly drab dining room received a stagy new look in 1985.

And actors can certainly be exuberantly stagy in that circumstance.

At first impression, all this may seem a bit too stagy, too calculated.

One of the men spotted her and emitted a stagy wolf-whistle.

It is of the stage, but not stagy.

That can be stagy, as when a maid is given the duty of imparting the court's final decision.

But except for the eyes he had a plain farmer face, with no stagy kind of handsomeness.

But the film is just as stagy and arm's-length.

The pianist's stagy exit into the wings could also bear rethinking.

"I hate people who make stagy scenes like that.

It is a typical piece of stagy salon cant.

The whole effect struck me as slightly stagy.

The pause was stagy but the intent was no doubt sincere.

Goethe was against such stagy treatments of his poem.

And his exaggeratedly stagy bouts make only a token attempt to look real.

Allow the backgrounds to look a bit artificial, a bit stagy, as they do in the original.