Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality.
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Examples for "stagy"
Examples for "stagy"
1If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
2For example, the comings and goings of Daland are fearfully stagy.
3Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects.
4Everything here is so heightened and stagy, it can be frustrating.
5But all she ever got was a stagy, affected counterfeit.
1That one authentic story is worth a hundred dramatic tales of stagey heroism.
2They had borrowed Carol's manuals of play-production and had become extremely stagey in vocabulary.
3There is a stagey whiff about this -are protesters or techies for real?
4They didn't give him a chance! His laugh was stagey.
5It's a heightened, sometimes stagey take on a trashy exploitation flick, but it is mesmerizing.
6Have them look real, you know, instead of stagey.
7Her voice, while clear, is hard, metallic, at intervals nasal, and all the while stagey.
8The white marble of these somewhat stagey figures is beautifully worked and the effect is imposing.
9I want to know about that stagey fellow.
10But this stagey device was not to succeed.
11She's afraid people will begin to think that extraordinary colourless charm she and you possess stagey.
12Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not?
13At times McCarthy's famously operatic language edges towards parody, and the Western dialogue is stagey and inauthentic.
14Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup.
15The lamp at her feet painted the tensely poised young body and bloodless face with quaint, stagey shadows.
16The stagey strut was quite gone.