How To Use Stagy In A Sentence
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The final fifteen minutes in particular, which theoretically contain the showdown between Stray Cat and Hundred Eyes, is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery.
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Floyd, who writes his own texts, may not have handled the subject with any great subtlety, and the opera's broad theatrics can sometimes seem stagy, but its dramatic honesty registers powerfully every time.
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The first, with all the stagy twinkle of an old drunk, raised his glass.
THE INNOCENT
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The least "stagy" actors are almost always favorites.
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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These are stagy comic types: the critic, the fop, and the hysteric.
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These songs prove him capable of focusing more on visceral appeal and less on stagy esotericism while maintaining his intellectual ambition, and one hopes this album is a steppingstone toward cementing this vision.
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It is the renowned Monsieur Des Cartes, whose lustre far outshines the aged winking tapers of Peripatetic Philosophy, and has eclipsed the stagyrite, with all the ancient lights of Greece and Rome.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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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.
MGM's Desperation
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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.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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[9] Hooker, as may be discerned from the epithet of arch-philosopher applied to the Stagyrite, 'sensu monarchico', was of the latter family, -- a comprehensive, vigorous, discreet, and discretive conceptualist, -- but not an ideist.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Or, detractors will suggest, the finished product feels too stagy and hasn't managed to pull itself away successfully from the proscenium.
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These songs prove him capable of focusing more on visceral appeal and less on stagy esotericism while maintaining his intellectual ambition, and one hopes this album is a stepping stone toward cementing this vision.
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Webster begins on such a stagy note that he loses the chance to move the audience, making it one of the less-compelling chunks of this mostly amusing evening of seldom-performed Chekhov.
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I was excited by the romantic exoticism of the play, but it was also a little quaint and stagy.
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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.
The English Novel
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The acting makes up for the stagy script, which has lots of pontificating and little boxing.
Weekly Mishmash: December 27-January 2 : Scrubbles.net
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The big production paintings, like Winter Timber (2008) — actually many separate canvases fitted together in postproduction — are stagy, and you may tire of its empurpled sweetness.
The Unconfounding Delight of David Hockney
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The prize was to be awarded by Betjeman, to the accompaniment of some pretty stagy effects, at Burton Constable.
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What could have easily been a stagy endeavour is kept fresh by capable direction and clever coverage by director Andrew Shea.
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For all their charms, Mamet's early films had a stagy, mannered quality that kept the viewer at arm's length.
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William Hurt is a willing, low-key accomplice, a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness.
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It looks stagy, artificial and old-fashioned, rather than cinematic.
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It is all very "stagy" -- but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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stagy heroics
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Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book.
What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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It's stagy and obvious and not terribly effective, since Olive doesn't really seem to come to any particular understanding.
Michael Giltz: Theater: NYMF #3 -- Chorus Girls, Satyrs, And Song Cycles