stage-struck
Britishadjective
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"I'm not stage-struck now. Nobody's more surprised than I am that I have, in fact, spent my life doing this."
From BBC
But Broadway is still the dream of stage-struck thespians.
From Los Angeles Times
I saw it with my equally stage-struck friend, Scot Osterweil, and after the show we dissected it with the intensity common to know-it-all theater nerds the world over.
From Washington Post
Taken by this “pretty, funny and entrancing girl,” he wrote, and as a stage-struck young man intrigued by her connection to S. N. Behrman, he asked her to profile an editorial writer.
From New York Times
The rapport with the audience that Davis has spent the show nurturing really pays off here; he handles the stage-struck children’s replies, which range from stony silence to oversharing, wittily and affectionately.
From Los Angeles Times
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