stagy
Example Sentences
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Luz’s monologue revealing Elliot’s turpitude is a rare stagy moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
With the exception of James Gray’s more cinematically composed “Armageddon Time,” the movies have offered simple, stagy showcases for Hopkins, a lion in winter.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
He said it in a stagy way, as if for Henry’s benefit.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
