She gasped stagily, choked, wrapped her hands about her throat. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The Dublin teapot poised, Birdie coughed stagily and lifted her chin. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
There were many glum faces, quite a few angry ones; Sulla paused rather stagily to see if anyone was going to protest audibly. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
And everything is mixed up in one and I said that is the model for television which was at that point very stagily involved in our documentaries, that I always said was the voice of the corporation and nobody likes to hear from a corporation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2002] Reference
Even food items will have to compete for their all-important text vote before they can be persuaded to upload them off their plates, while a table-side panel of Gordon Ramsay, Lorraine Kelly and David Icke bickers stagily about the respective merits of the chip and the steak. From Wordnik.com. [The myth of reality TV] Reference
The abortive coup against the Soviet leader in August 1991 was a desperate attempt by the right wing to prevent the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and when Boris Yeltsin stagily mounted a tank to call for the restoration of the "legally elected organs of power," his eventual ascent to power was all but assured. From Wordnik.com. [New World Disorder] Reference
That one, whom ye see strutting awkwardly, stagily, and stiffly, and with a laugh on her mouth like a Gallic whelp. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
Tony Windsor, the independent member for New England, was next: "My question is addressed to Peter Costello," he began stagily, before asking his real question of Rudd. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Mail] Reference
But even the big men sometimes fall victims to the popular conception, as when a Byron stagily takes the centre of the universe, and looms lurid like the spirit of the Brocken. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
And please don't forget its flagship show Most Haunted, whose apparent premise is to make Lord Reith turn in his grave and then ask his spirit, "What do you want from us?" while trembling stagily in night-vision. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
All three of them, then, with long steps and theatrical pauses, were stagily upon the move, when suddenly the door that led to the servants 'quarters swung open and Mr.. Fancy Quinglet debouched into their midst, succeeded by Mr. Ferdinand, who carried in his hand a menu card in a silver holder. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
If Morrison's film doesn't entirely succeed in this respect, the film often having the look of a television mini-series with several of the encounters between the principals being rather stagily scripted and over-enunciated by a cast of mixed internationals with the kind of emphasised Spanish accents that one dreads in such productions. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
Frid crossed the room stagily and sat on the arm of her mother’s chair. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Peer]
Uninfected by moralizing, ingeniously if stagily constructed, and credibly populated, Of Mice and Men ” far from Steinbeck's most ambitious book ” is the closest he came to a fully satisfying work of art. From Wordnik.com. [The Rescue of John Steinbeck] Reference
Doctorow’s characters tend to speak on behalf of the ideas they represent, as when the teenage protagonist stagily debates his Homeland Security interrogator: I thought I lived in a country where I had rights. From Wordnik.com. [Content Versus Quality « educating alice] Reference
Doctorow's characters tend to speak on behalf of the ideas they represent, as when the teenage protagonist stagily debates his Homeland Security interrogator: "I thought I lived in a country where I had rights. From Wordnik.com. [educating alice] Reference
"We got 'em," he whispered, stagily, "like rats in a trap!". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Justice Raffles] Reference
Today's words Word don't know: irising, wingbeats, stagily, luffed. From Wordnik.com. [i was born in the boredom and the chowdah.] Reference
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