She has a very stagy manner towards the crowd. From LearnThat.org.
stagy heroics. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is all very "stagy" -- but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
The least "stagy" actors are almost always favorites. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book. From Wordnik.com. [What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Daviot cast a stagy look \expndtw0 around the moors. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
What had been cinematic on stage would turn stagy on screen. From Wordnik.com. ['Dreamgirls' Does Justice to a Cinematic Musical] Reference
Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] Reference
These large-scale group portraits can easily become stagy and artificial. From Wordnik.com. [Repin’s State Council Portraits] Reference
But Tom Hooper correctly felt it was too stagy and those scenes had to go. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: David Seidler Protects and Defends The King's Speech] Reference
Now understanding that they presented a stagy threat to the captain's life. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2009] Reference
"A bit stagy, Batman," he said climbing into the truck and closing the door. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
Her love sounds reaching fever pitch -- stagy, more soprano than when she was with me. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
The acting makes up for the stagy script, which has lots of pontificating and little boxing. From Wordnik.com. [2010 January : Scrubbles.net] Reference
There were doo-wop falsetto riffs as precedent, but those were stylish, stagy, brief passages. From Wordnik.com. [Smokey Robinson Is a Miracle] Reference
There was something stagy about his performance, as if we were being observed by an unseen audience. From Wordnik.com. [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Here, Richard turned to Sylvie with a look of grief on his face that struck her as stagy and rehearsed. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Away Home] Reference
To participate requires a plot and up to six people and optional music and probably a lot of stagy entrances. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
But no matter how stagy or daring his makeup was, it always had the same feminine sensibility as his clothing. From Wordnik.com. [All About Yves: Jessica Flint] Reference
Not since the Meese Commission Report on Pornography has so much stagy titillation been collected in one place. From Wordnik.com. [Hell House at St. Ann���s: Dear Jerry Falwell, Meet N.Y.���s Sinners!] Reference
But his first heat spent he soon cooled down, and was able to laugh at the stagy explosiveness of his attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Hall's voodoo priestess Minerva fares less well: Eastwood's depictions of her occult cemetery rituals are hopelessly stagy. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Discomfort] Reference
His voice was quiet and deep, but there was nothing stagy or menacing about it, you could see it was the way he normally spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Fear is the Key]
Often overwritten, floridly acted, and stagy, ALL of his movies have made bank, even as white critics pretty much spit on them. From Wordnik.com. [This Christmas (2007)] Reference
John Lee Beatty has created a happily if unmemorably old-fashioned set for this happily old-fashioned show, a static background of very stagy green, rolling hills. From Wordnik.com. [Crazytown, Missitucky] Reference
Perhaps the biggest change is that the Times also will be able to run color photographs in its daily editions, rather than just the stagy travel and arts photos on Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Lady Applies Rouge And Lip Gloss] Reference
For his plot, Mr. ZANGWILL relies upon a very stagy coincidence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914] Reference
This style on so young a child gave a very stagy and quaint effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening] Reference
He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair.". From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
You ought to hear him talk -- not a bit up-stagy, no side at all, but interesting!. From Wordnik.com. [Play the Game!] Reference
Clearly Gregory possesses a strong voice, although not a typically loud, stagy one. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
The picture is nothing if not elaborately staged, yet the effect is just so stagy - all show and no tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
They may produce a certain stagy effect of contrast, but the effect was not worth producing at the expense of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
"I don't want to know anything," she replied in an imperious, almost a stagy voice, as for a moment she closed her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Sanine] Reference
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