The whole scene has a very stage-like and brilliant effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Her hands were put into a red stage-like condition for the evening and she was very uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secondary Raynaud's, circulation, socks and Sock Dreams] Reference

Q: Most of your scenes with the rest of the cast, including Geoffrey Rush, are in a stage-like setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Golden Globe Nominee Colin Firth Refines The King's Speech] Reference

What inspired you to create a stage-like, highly urban space, instead of a more traditional "green" park?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redefining Urban Spaces] Reference

We are even cognizant of how they unfold in a stage-like progression, moving from gross to subtle to causal to nondual.    From Wordnik.com.  [iEvolve - The Teal Shadow: Integral Expert, First-Tier Allergy] Reference

Because it seems as though they these online platforms, in the way they are designed, pull for precisely a stage-like experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Reality Shows | Her Bad Mother] Reference

That proved to be too "stage-like" and boring. 3 entry/exit points varies the action very subtly, but it proved to make a huge difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2 | /Film] Reference

What is stage-like and theatrical about the film is that Stanwyck is trapped in her bed, trying to get help from the outside world on the phone much as on a static stage set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

The center of the room, where most of the guests were gathering in clumps, was kept murky, save for the periodic, jarring explosions of the paparazzi's flashbulbs, while, on the left side of the room, some of the more extroverted guests were lounging on red-lit mattresses raised on a stage-like platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hush, Hush, Sweet Trendette] Reference

It was always good enough food in an uncomfortably, even glaringly well-lit, amphitheatre stage-like setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

I'm not sure why they didn't try harder at making some other scenes more film-like than stage-like, but in the end, I don't much care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Bumps In the Road, the centrepiece of her current London show, sets two figures on a stage-like plinth - a square of charred landscaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In fact, while the anime gave the impression of a transparent, stage-like fourth wall, the manga opaques our view into the world of its characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

If you caught the Aoi Hana anime a few seasons back, you may remember that sense of separation between characters and backgrounds, which lent the whole thing a stage-like feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

He was twenty-seven, his black and naturally curled hair was very thin, there were eight or nine teeth that answered no call from his meat, and he wore in his right eyesocket a round glass, with no rim or string, held by a puckering of cheek and brow, giving him a quizzical, stage-like stare, and twisting his nose into a ripple of tiny wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

That border of sunflowers and Michaelmas daisies and the late roses in the little round beds, and the low wall of very old brick — he’d had a lot of trouble to get that brick! — even the grass — the moon-light gave them all a stage-like quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Song] Reference

It feels very theatrical and stage-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady and the Duke (2001)] Reference

That trouble not man's stage-like dream of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cromwell] Reference

A stage-like whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference