- a variation of stagy.
stagey
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Most of the characters are flat and the portrayals stagey, starting with Mr. Grammer’s gruff but likable Fairfax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"My mind's gone blank for a second," he said at one point, but there was no bristling or irritation about the cross-examining, when royals might be accustomed to more stagey, softball interviews.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
The mannered, intentionally stilted performances give the drama a stagey feel, which vibes with the film’s ethereal aesthetics.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
I liked the idea of it dramatically, and we had to work hard so it didn't look a little stagey.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2021
He would glare at me—a glare so overdone it was stagey but so intense it sometimes scared me—if I wasn’t right there to lock his cell behind him when his run was called.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
The host asked again, in a stagier whisper, and made signs with his head toward the other room.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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
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
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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