stagy

IPA: stˈeɪdʒi

Examples of "stagy" in Sentences

The least "stagy" actors are almost always favorites.
Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book.
It is all very "stagy" -- but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal.
The acting makes up for the stagy script, which has lots of pontificating and little boxing.
It's stagy and obvious and not terribly effective, since Olive doesn't really seem to come to any particular understanding.
At last, the pompous, "stagy" old monarch died, full of infirmities and of humiliations; and the road from the Boulevard to St. Denis was lined with booths as for a _fête_, and the people feasted, sang, and danced for joy that the tyrant was in his coffin.
Although Collins had a considerable amount of rather coarse vigour in him (his brother Charles, who died young, had a much more delicate art) and great fecundity in a certain kind of stagy invention, it is hard to believe that his work will ever be put permanently high.
Also it's one of the few Minnelli CinemaScope movies where he really seems at ease with the wide screen; maybe because the film is kind of stagy-looking, the proscenium shape of the screen actually works and leads to great effects like the three-person shot that opens "Thank Heaven For Little Girls."