Of course, they are still controlled and stage-managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [What YouTube Election?] Reference

So, what they did out there was a stage-managed presentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Liberian Warlord Ponders a Presidential Run in 2011] Reference

How the thing was stage-managed matters very little at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

But even then, Hezbollah's show and tells are well stage-managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006] Reference

And is this nothing but a stage-managed, made-for-TV extravaganza?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2004] Reference

Such manipulation is about as subtle as a stage-managed convention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail Mix: High Hopes] Reference

Of course, the whole episode had been stage-managed for his benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Apparition]

But haven't our lives always been a little bit public and stage-managed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt] Reference

In Washington's stage-managed Afghan votes, real opposition is excluded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Chasing Mirages in Afghanistan] Reference

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I felt the entire time it was a stage-managed affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference

It turns out that the "random" round was much more stage-managed than it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Idol' Worship] Reference

Randomly chosen real people is not what this stage-managed presidency has been about.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Quigg: Washington Times: Bush & Cheney Secretly Decent Human Beings] Reference

I do think even these "casual" moments on candidates 'sites will be stage-managed, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [What YouTube Election?] Reference

He says so time and time, in one scripted, invitation-only, stage-managed event after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Jim McDermott: One Nation ��� Two Countries] Reference

Their timing is so impeccable that it's clear their entrances and exits are being stage-managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News Plagiarism? Kate Winslet Article Closely Resembles Daily Mail Article] Reference

"Their timing is so impeccable that it's clear their entrances and exits are being stage-managed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News Plagiarism? Kate Winslet Article Closely Resembles Daily Mail Article] Reference

Obviously, we all know that these things are stage-managed to the hilt, so this is really nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Harris: Your President, the Visionary Genius] Reference

At times it looked as if the entire show had been stage-managed to make him look in control and at ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron fails to even ruffle Brown's feathers] Reference

KURTZ: Should have mentioned that he stage-managed this, that he helped orchestrate this emotional moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2004] Reference

Even today's news conference by Premier Wen Jiabao is stage-managed, with officials vetting all questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Takes Some Small Steps] Reference

The public still has no idea of what part of her is stage-managed and focus-grouped, and what part is legit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Spokesman: No Candidate Has Been More Scrutinized By Media Than Obama Has] Reference

According to this version, the U.S. government stage-managed the whole affair in Eastern Europe in the 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: Can We Rescue Democracy from the Right?] Reference

Did you feel at times this was a stage-managed extravaganza and were you there to provide the pretty pictures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference

Rather than hammering the prime minister he joined him in a stage-managed recital of announcements and statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Everything Masako says or does in public is stage-managed by the Imperial Household Agency, watchdog of the dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like Birds In A Gilded Cage] Reference

The jittery good manners of a man on best behaviour runs through his stage-managed Q & A with the kids of Landau Forte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron's smooth approach to transition] Reference

You imagine that Clarke's take, carefully stage-managed, would have become the official Tory line in a few weeks or months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could Clarke's premature announcement have been good for the Tories?] Reference

The press went after her with gusto, exposing the contradictions and outright lies in her carefully stage-managed speeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: Pre-Election Post-Mortem: Why Obama Lost] Reference

KURTZ: Left the convention eight years ago, said that this was scripted, it was stage-managed, didn't require your presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2004] Reference

It's no secret that presidential conventions have become scripted, stage-managed rituals with little drama and no surprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katrina vanden Heuvel: No Party for Democratic Party] Reference

The political officers were controlling the release of information, and the entire evolution had to be carefully stage-managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellfire]

Death seems, not part of life, but a brief interruption stage-managed by strangers in suits, so that it scarcely seems real at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leg Waxing And Life Everlasting] Reference

Evan was strutting around looking important, intense, and satisfied, as if he had stage-managed and directed the entire performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

In 1914 he lobbied for war from back in neutral Switzerland and in 1917 hid out in Finland while Trotsky stage-managed the Bolshevik coup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venom And Violence] Reference