stagy

How To Use stagy In A Sentence

• I was excited by the romantic exoticism of the play, but it was also a little quaint and stagy.
• 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
• 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 is all very "stagy" -- but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal. Royal Palaces and Parks of France
• It looks stagy, artificial and old-fashioned, rather than cinematic.
• William Hurt is a willing, low-key accomplice, a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness.
• For all their charms, Mamet's early films had a stagy, mannered quality that kept the viewer at arm's length.
• What could have easily been a stagy endeavour is kept fresh by capable direction and clever coverage by director Andrew Shea.
• The prize was to be awarded by Betjeman, to the accompaniment of some pretty stagy effects, at Burton Constable.