stagy
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Employing a stagy New York accent, and saddled with a distractingly unfortunate blond wig, Ms. McCann delivers a long, discursive monologue both boastful and aggressively flirtatious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
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
He said it in a stagy way, as if for Henry’s benefit.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Living on bread, butter and fruit, she became a stagier or unpaid apprentice at the bakery of Gerard Mulot, a master pâtissier, boulanger and chocolatier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2013
But the music falters: in dramatizing his novel, Capote has told a stagier story, and brought in more themes than he can orchestrate or develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in a tale of modern life no trick could well be stagier.
From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He was the most unstagey actor on the stage, and the stagiest off I ever met.
From A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 by Florence Warden
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
Hernani, the first performance of which marked the turning-point of the movement, is a piece of bombastic melodrama, full of the stagiest clap-trap and the most turgid declamation.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
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