How To Use Stagey In A Sentence
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Like the rest of the rooms, it had the stagey look of a film set.
YELLOW BIRD
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With her, he sealed himself away in palatial residences, letting the people see him mainly through stagey televised ceremonials.
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Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not?
We Two, a novel
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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.
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To the reader comfortably sprawled before a good fire it may seem a little stagey, as if he was speaking for effect.
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Paradoxically, the stagey lighting, shoddy sets, breaks between shots, all create a hyper reality.
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The dialogue, however, is quite stagey and unconvincing.
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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.
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Like the rest of the rooms, it had the stagey look of a film set.
YELLOW BIRD
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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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Unconsciously stagey in life, he is little stagier in Lucan.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one.
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
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The programme, largely monologue, consisted of a woolly, stagey ramble through her life and times.
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The Ada is tucked away from the coast up a hill, though it also maintains its own separate seafront complete with a pier, bar and some stagey awnings.
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Indeed, this name of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities.
Memories and Portraits
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Although it is stunningly shot, the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is.
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In restaurants, as in theater, patrons pay for a lush, contrived setting replete with stagey scenery and sophisticated lighting techniques.
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The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness, even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.
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The enforced gloom, a stagey attempt to copy the drama of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro, lessens the impact of the pictures themselves when seen in clear light.
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It is the extreme of the modern tendency toward dramatic narrative, and is just a little too "stagey" and artificial to be a perfect short story.
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
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I suppose Mandeville would say that acting has got into a mannerism which is well described as stagey, and is supposed to be natural to the stage; just as half the modern poets write in a recognized form of literary manufacture, without the least impulse from within, and not with the purpose of saying anything, but of turning out a piece of literary work.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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a mannerism which is well described as stagey, and is supposed to be natural to the stage; just as half the modern poets write in a recognized form of literary manufacture, without the least impulse from within, and not with the purpose of saying anything, but of turning out
Backlog Studies
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So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone (people falling to their knees and declaiming ‘you've torn out my soul’ and all that sort of thing) that I find most of it laughable.
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What is impressively large scale and grand in the house becomes flat and "stagey" in two dimensions.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky
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Critics say the film is dated, "stagey," and implausible.
Tom Gregory: California Kicks Right-Wing Butt
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She had to deliver a very stagey monologue, and she missed every opportunity to make it moving.
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His acting is very realistic, not at all stagey, which isn't common in this era.
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