Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not?. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
His acting is very realistic, not at all stagey, which isn't common in this era. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
Critics say the film is dated, "stagey," and implausible. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gregory: California Kicks Right-Wing Butt] Reference
What is impressively large scale and grand in the house becomes flat and "stagey" in two dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky] Reference
From the very beginning, there was something "stagey" about the piece. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It is quite an accomplishment that the episodes don't feel formal and "stagey" but move through scenes at a comfortable pace. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
Yes, it's action, but it's sort of dull and stagey. From Wordnik.com. [All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Too bad the script was a stagey, cliché-ridden waste. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: June 21-27 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
July 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm yoo r tunnellin in2 dark relmz, stagey!. From Wordnik.com. [Wen U brite az meh, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The neo-Gothic lines of the steeple looked stagey against the heavy cloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
He saw me, stifled his surprise and said, "Hello, Doctor" in a stagey voice. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
We got all the facts of the book right, but the movie was a little long and stagey. From Wordnik.com. [First Look: Four Official Photos from Angels and Demons « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Apart from those, you have some very stagey-looking Westerns like Gunfight at the O.K. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Her voice, while clear, is hard, metallic, at intervals nasal, and all the while stagey. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anderson] Reference
There are the stagey and carefully boiled commentaries of established big-name literati. From Wordnik.com. [Neth Space] Reference
When I spoke under these circumstances it always felt stagey, like I was auditioning words. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Watching] Reference
And nearly all of them fall into the same category: static, stagey adaptations of stage plays. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
The show feels too much like TV to me -- too stagey, too formulaic, too smug and sure of itself. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on LEVERAGE] Reference
And so, with a shrill peal of stagey laughter, she curtseyed low to him and glided from the room. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
(It was all very stagey, very theatrical, but then that was characteristic of the new age and regime.). From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
A man of the world would have known the studied quaver in the voice -- the throaty, stagey sweetness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Such a gesture from such a man should have appeared both affected and stagey: oddly enough, it did neither. From Wordnik.com. [Partisans]
"He died not long afterward," Sulla said reflectively, and heaved a stagey sigh through the middle of his smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Indeed, this name of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
It is a pretty enough aspect up and down the river from the bridge at Maidenhead, but it is stagey and artificial. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
As for Mr. FORBES ROBERTSON and Miss KATE RORKE, they seemed to me to be what the author had made them -- i.e., stagey. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference
It's deliberately stagey and self-conscious, so much so that I was choking on the pretension and fled after 15 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Sunday, Sept. 12] Reference
The story is just too familiar and conventional, and the whole thing just feels too stagey—it might as well be a play. From Wordnik.com. [This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Orphan, Whatever Works, and More | /Film] Reference
The parts are artistically adjusted, the dialogue unforced, the acting un-stagey, and the situations powerfully dramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891] Reference
Well, to life seems an exaggeration - it at least has a pulse, as opposed to the stagey performances of Molina and Hounsou. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Tempest] Reference
Radio 4 plays, though, are about exploring situations, as opposed to ideas, which makes for a lot of stagey acting and plots. From Wordnik.com. [Afternoon Play: Homestead/ Highgate Letters/ Albert Speer's Walk Around The World; Drama on 3: The Carhullan Army] Reference
That he believes charm, soft words, candlelight, good wine, and stagey entrances will overpower ideas, ideology, and partisanship. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Listi: Obama's Dinner Date with George Will and the Conservative Media Elite] Reference
The results, particularly in the case of the secondary characters, are often stagey, an Easterner's idea of what Kansans talk like. From Wordnik.com. [Beat the Devil] Reference
Well, as much as I dug Guy and Alice doing their thing, the director forgot to tell the cast to dial this stagey romp down for film. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: March 9-15 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
At the same time, the stagey epiphany of Jupiter in act 5 is plainly a coup de theatre, calling attention to itself as theatrical artifice. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
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