stagy
IPA: stˈeɪdʒi
adjective
- theatrical
- unnaturally showy
- melodramatic; sensationalized
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Examples of "stagy" in Sentences
- The film is just as stagy.
- The reputation was told to be stagy.
- Which do you prefer, stagy or natural
- The film comes off as amateurish and stagy.
- The direction is depressingly flat and stagy.
- But the film is just as stagy and arm's length.
- The least "stagy" actors are almost always favorites.
- Lincoln himself often feels too conservative, stagy and safe.
- Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book.
- An article criticizes the stagy kickoffs of the Bush and Gore campaigns.
- Plummer makes the stagy nature of 'Barrymore' work to the film's advantage.
- 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."