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stagey

[ UK /stˈe‍ɪd‍ʒi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality
    stagy heroics

How To Use stagey In A Sentence

  • Like the rest of the rooms, it had the stagey look of a film set. YELLOW BIRD
  • With her, he sealed himself away in palatial residences, letting the people see him mainly through stagey televised ceremonials.
  • Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not? We Two, a novel
  • A worthy attempt was made at historical accuracy; the script and acting were excellent, but some critics disliked the stagey sets and painted backdrops, and today this splendid series is largely forgotten.
  • To the reader comfortably sprawled before a good fire it may seem a little stagey, as if he was speaking for effect.
  • Paradoxically, the stagey lighting, shoddy sets, breaks between shots, all create a hyper reality.
  • The dialogue, however, is quite stagey and unconvincing.
  • The muffled sound, his stagey singing voice, and the documentated scenes in a car as he presses buttons on his boom box and makes a mixed tape are presented with dead seriousness.
  • Like the rest of the rooms, it had the stagey look of a film set. YELLOW BIRD
  • All too often in a film like this the musical numbers might stop the action dead with their stagey, almost animatronic feeling.
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