stagey

How To Use stagey In A Sentence

• Indeed, this name of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities. Memories and Portraits
• His acting is very realistic, not at all stagey, which isn't common in this era. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
• She had to deliver a very stagey monologue, and she missed every opportunity to make it moving.
• Critics say the film is dated, "stagey," and implausible. Tom Gregory: California Kicks Right-Wing Butt
• What is impressively large scale and grand in the house becomes flat and "stagey" in two dimensions. Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.