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or stagey
1
as in theatrical
given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting
a motivational speaker whose stagy presentations motivate some listeners to head for the nearest exit
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as in dramatic
having the general quality or effect of a stage performance
the president's and the prime minister's public display of mutual admiration was a little too stagy to be convincing
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Recent Examples of stagy
Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.
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James Shapiro, The New York Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2025
This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Gwen Grastorf’s embodiment of the scheming goody-goody Arsinoë is a tad stagy, but the character is still a fine foil for the quick-witted Célimène.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
The fact that the film was made inexpensively, though not a vice in and of itself, is not especially compensated for by Joe Collins’ cinematography, which renders Heffernan’s compositions flat, stagy and small.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
Its weapon is maximalism: with velvet tuxedos, stagy service and a love for all the props and paraphernalia of midcentury American dining.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
All good but drifting into stagy with a tad too much branding.
—Freep.com, 8 May 2020
But the overture is long, and the episode turns stagy and exaggerated.
—New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
James Shapiro, The New York Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2025
This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Gwen Grastorf’s embodiment of the scheming goody-goody Arsinoë is a tad stagy, but the character is still a fine foil for the quick-witted Célimène.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
The fact that the film was made inexpensively, though not a vice in and of itself, is not especially compensated for by Joe Collins’ cinematography, which renders Heffernan’s compositions flat, stagy and small.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
Its weapon is maximalism: with velvet tuxedos, stagy service and a love for all the props and paraphernalia of midcentury American dining.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
All good but drifting into stagy with a tad too much branding.
—Freep.com, 8 May 2020
But the overture is long, and the episode turns stagy and exaggerated.
—New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagy
Adjective
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The agreement will kick off with Lionsgate’s 2026 theatrical release slate, a package of films from the studio’s 2025 slate and a commitment to Prime Video for licensing library movies and TV.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
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The film is now slated for a March 21 theatrical release.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mexico City’s Art Week has begun, amid the dramatic backdrop of an incipient trade war, sparked by US President Donald Trump, as ARTnews’ Harrison Jacobs reports.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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The site was no more than a few dozen feet from a dramatic drop to the rolling desert below, which leads through desert scrub to the foothills of Mount Cristo Rey.—
Reyes Mata III,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Audiard has referred to his script as a libretto, but Emilia Pérez stretches past operatic goofiness.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2025
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However, operatic sequences that occur in-game, featuring diegetic songs (meaning that both the player and the characters are supposed to hear them as songs), have become a more common occurrence.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Jan. 2025
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There’s a lot of melodramatic potential in this material — particularly one late-breaking narrative development that has felled many talented artists in the past.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2025
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But melodramatic fantasies about the end can also serve as a kind of lurid distraction from some of the more persistent problems at hand.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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