| 单词 | stagey |
| 例句 | He would glare at me—a glare so overdone it was stagey but so intense it sometimes scared me—if I wasn’t right there to lock his cell behind him when his run was called. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hat aloft and bowed graciously to either side, with a fixed, stagey smile on his face. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Among all that stagey scenery, too beautiful, like a cardboard movie backdrop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Say! This is for two hundred,” he said in stagey surprise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A few stagey cloud puffs were traveling from right to left. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Given that most directors work in a very different way from yours, do you find the majority of films unwatchable for being stagey and fake? tommyboy79, online No, I don’t, I enjoy watching films. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z This is closer to Walter Hill’s stagey “Streets of Fire,” with a Japanese twist and risible script. | 'Bunraku': Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson in ?Bunraku? ? Review 2011-09-30T01:07:36Z Denzel Washington, “Fences”—The knock on “Fences” is that it’s stagey. Oscar Spotlight: The Actors 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Kathleen Supové, a pianist of flamboyantly stagey inclinations, is integral to “Removable Parts,” a heartbreaking work inspired by people longing to become amputees. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z But suffice to say she makes herself highly visible, and was only this week seen cackling arm-in-arm with Simon's latest girlfriend on a stagey shopping trip. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z The dialogue, too, sometimes sounds overly, well, stagey. Review: Eastwood’s ‘Jersey Boys’ catchy but uneven 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It is all stagey – set behind footlights – but what a performance! Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z It sounds like a sort of stagey type name and I prefer Sally, which is the name on my birth certificate. Petula Clark: 'John Lennon gave me some advice that I can't repeat' 2013-02-20T16:52:41Z Almost from the beginning, though, a few readers pointed out that many of the conversations in the book had a stagey, wooden quality, not unlike the dialogue in Steinbeck’s fiction. A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley 2011-04-03T22:00:12Z Leila Johnston's confession that she photographs IBM cash registers and plots them on a Google map at first seemed unbelievable and stagey. Boring festival brings unexpected intrigue 2012-11-25T19:53:11Z True, Berlin Alexanderplatz isn't especially stylish to look at: much of it is rudimentary, even stagey. Your next box set: Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z I liked the idea of it dramatically, and we had to work hard so it didn't look a little stagey. "Guilt" writer discusses the twisty finale, the importance of that enigmatic smile and Season 2 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Rereleased in its original 3D, Hitchcock's relatively stagey rendition of a fiendishly clever "perfect crime" gone awry. Frances Ha, The Wolverine, Blackfish: this week's new films 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z The silent era, with its often stagey film productions, had its share of cross-dressing in the theatrical tradition, which continued into the sound era with numerous variations and embellishments. Some like it drag: cross-dressing in the movies 2011-03-08T17:01:30Z Of course there are films every so often that I do find fake or stagey, but that’s not an endemic condition of the fact that it wasn’t directed by me. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Printed with hibiscus flowers and in airy fabrics, there was a 1950s Hollywood vibe, without making the clothes too stagey. The Death of the Dress? 2012-09-10T17:21:07Z Marcin grew up romanticizing the film, and now putting adults in the roles is stagey, like Brecht’s version of the movie, forcing this dissociative split between the two. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Its arrangement suggests a stagey rapprochement, with subsequent verses sung by the trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, the vibraphonist Bill Ware and the drummer E. J. Rodriguez: all charter members of the band. Music Review: Not Exactly Your Top 40 ?Reunited? 2010-10-01T23:00:00Z The production values are glossier, the cutting faster, the performances less stagey. "Pioneers of Television": The bloody, sexy rise of the American crime show 2011-02-01T15:02:00Z It doesn't much rely on physical comedy or the stagey quippiness of Mack's current sitcom, Not Going Out. Does everybody really love Raymond? 2013-05-09T13:29:00Z “Spieglein,” another premiere by Mr. Magloire, a solo for Victoria North to a Handel violin sonata, was rather too stagey in its evocation of a woman surrounded by reflections of herself. Dance Review: Miro Magloire and His New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2012-02-13T22:39:23Z What follows is partly a “Big Brother”-style reality spoof, complete with domestic melodrama, introspective talking-head interviews and suspiciously stagey confrontations. “What We Do in the Shadows”: A hilarious mockumentary on suburban vampire angst 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Scrupulous detailing and high production values notwithstanding, the dialogue and delivery seems stilted and stagey, which makes the narrative experience again a bit uninvolving and less than the sum of its aspirational parts. 'Eleven-year-old me was very, very happy!' You review His Dark Materials 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z These are the forbidden, perverse pleasures gestured at in this enjoyably hammy, stagey two-hander from , daring in its verbose and middle-aged way. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z Blair, with his choppy hand gestures and stagey pauses, "was just so Blair". Richard Bacon: why I was sniggering at the Queen Mother's funeral 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The tightrope walk between artist and showman sometimes draws the affable Elling into stagey joshing with the crowd before the spine has stopped tingling from the song he has just delivered. Kurt Elling – review 2013-04-17T16:32:34Z Amy Adams wasn’t nominated for her stagey, imperious role in Nocturnal Animals. Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue: the year Amy Adams missed out on an Oscar 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z At Hilton Head and Davos, they tell one another, sometimes with stagey caveats and sighs, that recent meltdowns prove that most people aren’t capable of self-government and need to be ruled or finessed. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It also risks monotony, which Jones avoids with various stagey remedies. Comedy Gold: Milton Jones's Lion Whisperer 2013-01-24T15:10:33Z Friday’s emergent crew featured only one definitive dud: Otis Donovan Herring’s “Attempting to Reconcile,” a muddle of tortured emoting and stagey dance moments. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z Oddly, while "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is stagey, that is never really a drawback. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Robins, who pioneered many of Ibsen's plays in Britain, thought the scene "too stagey". Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z All the sleekness and fast-talking polish make House of Lies feel ultimately a little cold and stagey, which probably makes a meta-point as well, but remains cold and stagey nonetheless. TV Weekend: Scenes from the Class Struggle, with Downton Abbey and House of Lies 2012-01-06T16:54:11Z The productions are stagey, English-y and old-fashioned, but Taylor's emotional immediacy, amazing expressiveness and memorably violet eyes command your attention throughout. The short and strange career of Elizabeth Taylor, movie star 2011-03-23T19:30:00Z He doesn't pause for the punch; he throws it mid-sentence, never breaking his verbal or physical stride, with a slightly ragged spontaneity -- which makes its effect more real and powerful, less stagey. Laurence Fishburne does justice to "Thurgood" 2011-02-24T15:25:00Z The truly multifarious Wolf Trap offers a mix of rock, opera, chamber music and dance performances, along with some big, stagey musicals. Summer Stages: Theater 2010-05-09T03:12:00Z A good musical is the opposite of strange men bellowing, which is just a funnier way of saying stagey and false. Forget Cats: in a close-run field, Marriage Story was the musical highlight of my holiday 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z The smartest thing the production did was to be unashamedly stagey. Review: Peter Pan Live! and the Case for Snark 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Colm Meaney, as the head of the tribunal, is less sinister but hardly sympathetic, and the behind-the-scenes heavy, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, is portrayed by Kevin Kline with stiff, stagey malevolence. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z He wears a wedding ring, "just so I can flash it to warn people off if I need to," he laughs, in a stagey demonic way, "or at least put it on in the morning." Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z This is the mood in the wings: manic, playful, the actors being self-consciously mannered and stagey. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z The mannered, intentionally stilted performances give the drama a stagey feel, which vibes with the film’s ethereal aesthetics. ‘Giving Birth to a Butterfly’ Review: Melancholy and Menace 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z His procession of eloquent gods is not stagey: it's cinematic. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z And the love scenes, such as they are, are shot in a stagey, old-fashioned manner that isolates them from the main action of the story and distances them from the viewer. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Does Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” hold up? 2012-07-14T19:00:00Z Though occasionally stagey, David Staller’s production presents its ideas lucidly while never stinting the emotions that underlie them. Theater Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The dialogue, too, though taken from historical accounts, reads as stagey and false. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z To watch Douglas’s performances now, some of them more than 70 years old, it is striking how modern he seems, often more so than many of his contemporaries, who now look rather stagey. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s a pity, then, that the stagey production by the Horizon Theater Rep sometimes muffles the script’s voice. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z Real stone, trees, the sea: these stop the acting becoming stagey, and locate it in something bigger. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z THC’s new “Roots” features many admirable performances, and has more thematic complexity and much higher production values than the stodgy, stagey LeVar Burton original. Fact, fiction and tangled “Roots”: How a family history that wasn’t entirely true broke through America’s biggest lies 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z "My mind's gone blank for a second," he said at one point, but there was no bristling or irritation about the cross-examining, when royals might be accustomed to more stagey, softball interviews. Prince Harry: How did he handle his day in court? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z At any moment, sweet, stagey harmonies might disappear beneath industrial clatter. The 50 best albums of 2020, No 1: Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Among the various motifs assigned to this dark side scion, the most conspicuous is a motto that is, as critic Alex Ross puts it, “dominated by a stagey tritone” — the most demonic of musical intervals. Perspective | How John Williams’s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z It sometimes seems a bit stagey, but associates say she is an energizer bunny in private too. Elizabeth Warren, 70, flaunts her fitness as Democratic candidates' health becomes a debate issue 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The comic is yet one of those ways, Krifka extenuating the staged into the stagey. In Laura Krifka's paintings, you're the voyeur looking in with naked attraction 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z That is traditionally followed by the politician filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, which makes them subject to US election laws, and then making a big, stagey speech to announce their official candidacy. Kirsten Gillibrand kicks off presidential campaign at New York diner 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The liveness of the filming is woven into each episode, with clear shots of a studio audience, frequent corpsing and ad-libbing from the cast, misplaced props, knowing addresses to camera and stagey bowing. How Mrs Brown's Boys became a critic-proof hit 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z “The stagey and shallow and inauthentic nature of elite D.C. Nats fandom owes a lot to how stagey and shallow and inauthentic powerful D.C. people tend to seem,” the item later argued. Perspective | Please keep the Nats out of your political screeds. Thank you. 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z But this overly talky and stagey film, which takes place mostly in Colt’s hotel room and trailer — and frustratingly off-set — lacks the requisite catharsis and charisma to sufficiently engage. A bad-boy actor makes for a less than compelling drama in 'Racing Colt' 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a heightened, sometimes stagey take on a trashy exploitation flick, but it is mesmerizing. Netflix’s Gerald’s Game expands Stephen King’s novel in the best ways 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Equally predictable were the stagey howls of protest from supposedly outraged right-wing media, who reckoned the play made a a case for assassination, while most Shakespeare scholars say quite the opposite. Why Donald Trump Was Low-Hanging Fruit for 'Julius Caesar' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z His casual race-baiting, deliberate divisiveness, and stagey swagger are the last qualities the country needs in a leader—always, but now in particular. Obama and Trump After Dallas 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z When he does speak, Owen as often as not, elocutes in a stagey manner, with timbres of cartoon voices and those famous actors he loves accenting his words. ‘Life, Animated’ shows autistic son relating to world through Disney cartoons 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Van Hove wanted the work to feel real, to feel immediate, to feel emotionally urgent, but not stagey. 'I'm not damaged': Ben Whishaw on sexuality, privacy and playing troubled heroes 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z In the White House, he made constant, stagey efforts to show just how much enjoyed being president, and people responded in turn. The FDR Playbook for Defeating Donald Trump 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Because part of the attack was seen and heard live on air, because the victims and the perpetrator all worked for the same TV station, there’s something stagey about it all. The Virginia shooting's 'reality show' paradox: people on TV don't seem real | Jonathan Jones 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In the US, Congress is stagey and oak-panelled, its deliberations tactical and self-important – there’s a seriousness to the place in line with the unique vocation this country sees for itself in the world. Matthew Dellavedova isn't dirty, America: he's just Australian 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The script takes on a stilted, stagey tone at times, but older teens might find the style less important than the questions being debated. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Tomorrowland’ 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z His long monologue finally exposing Hickey’s own terrible secret is affecting, if a bit stagey. Review: Powerful acting lifts dark ‘The Iceman Cometh’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The critic James Wood, reviewing Tartt's most recent novel, The Goldfinch, for the New Yorker, objected to the book's stagey improbabilities and twists. Donna Tartt: Is this the year of The Goldfinch? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The result is a rather stagey film whose back projections look quaint, with 3D apparently used to foreground items of furniture, such as table-lamps, giving rise to some eccentric camera-angles. Dial M for Murder – review 2013-07-25T21:15:00Z He climbed a set of steps to the open cockpit of one of the fighters, and held a stagey conversation with its pilot. Is Britain's arms trade making a killing? 2013-02-18T19:00:05Z These stagey, showy glory-seekers finally got what they wanted: their own place on one of the largest stages in the history of their sport. U.S. women’s soccer team sought glory and found it 2012-08-10T01:20:25Z "Forced, stagey and affected" was the on the song, which stretches the definition of "bombastic" to breaking point. What makes a great sports song? 2012-07-24T03:14:38Z Old Polkinghorne thought fit to conceal his joy under a cloak of stagey emotion. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z That style of thing is far too stagey. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The next is a stagey affirmation of the capital punishment status quo, balancing his democratic credentials against the anger of already angry people who have wasted a whole minute demanding the return of hanging. This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power 2011-08-06T23:07:02Z The picture appears to me to be in feeling unreal, stagey—not to say, ridiculous. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z He was a tall, sandy-haired elderly young man, with a fine but slightly stagey face. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The Italian doctor was a man with a love of effect—one of those stagey beings whom we meet occasionally in England, and more often on the Continent. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z It gently derides the stagey incidents and emotional heroics of the old style of school story. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Good unprime skins are No. 2; poor unprime skins, No. 3; the very poor and stagey, no fur, are No. 4, generally known as trash and of no value. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps And she went off in a fit of rather stagey laughter. A Poached Peerage And her grass is green green and her sky is blue blue, But her father, with pride, In a stagey aside Asks my "candid opinion." Impertinent Poems And the superior-minded critic yawned behind a well gloved hand and dubbed the play melodramatic, unreal, and stagey, quite foreign to the life of to-day. The Heart of a Woman How perfect Mr. Rider Haggard's latest story would he, if it weren't for his persistent introduction of the low comedian, a stagey French cook of the old farcical order. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 The fairly well furred unprime skins are graded No. 2; the low furred unprime skins are thrown to No. 3; the poorly furred are thrown to No. 4, while low stagey skins go to trash. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps Mr. Rochester is stagey, Grandcourt is stagey, while the hero of "Under Two Flags" is merely Turkish Delight. The Intelligence of Woman It is your stagey spouting that has saddled us with them. Eyes Like the Sea She knows that they are real: there is nothing stagey or artificial about them: they have even become commonplace. The Heart of a Woman "Friends," he said in the stagey sort of voice that a person might use in talking to an audience, "meet Teeny-bits—that's his name." The Mark of the Knife But no solution presented itself better than the stagey one. When Ghost Meets Ghost The heroes in the novels she has written, until recently and with one or two exceptions,—such as some of the heroes of George Eliot,—are either stagey or sweet. The Intelligence of Woman Or did they spout in stagey tones Morality by H. A. Jones? Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series Long after the revolutionists had shown more than the qualities of men, it was common among lords and lacqueys to attribute to them the stagey and piratical pretentiousness of urchins. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens A man of the world would have known the studied quaver in the voice—the throaty, stagey sweetness of it. Despair's Last Journey Despair bred an idea in her mind; a mad one, perhaps, a stagey one certainly. When Ghost Meets Ghost “That’s a good one!” said the tall chap, with a stagey laugh; “I think he must have belonged to the Horse Marines—didn’t he?” On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story It is the extreme of the modern tendency toward dramatic narrative, and is just a little too "stagey" and artificial to be a perfect short story. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story "I'm sure you were not," I replied; but I could not help laughing at his stagey manner, though I was more annoyed than ever now, and annoyed with myself too. My Friend the Chauffeur And so, with a shrill peal of stagey laughter, she curtseyed low to him and glided from the room. Despair's Last Journey But it was only at times and during the first half of his career that Dickens could keep clear of melodrama and somewhat stagey blue fire. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Most of our actors are artificial and stagey; even those who clear themselves of these faults seem to play down to the understanding of their audience. Town Life in Australia The scene of the interruption of the procession first by Ortrud and then by Frederick has always seemed to me superfluous as well as stagey. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas But don't you think," he ventured to say, "that that would look rather mechanical—rather stagey, in fact? Prince Fortunatus I want to know about that stagey fellow. Dorothy Dale's Camping Days That one authentic story is worth a hundred dramatic tales of stagey heroism. Side Lights Her voice, while clear, is hard, metallic, at intervals nasal, and all the while stagey. Mary Anderson Now, it will be noted here that the whole thing is ridiculously stagey and artificial. Wagner Better even Mrs. Paynter's than solitude shared with this stagey old man, with his repellent face and his purring voice which his eyes so belied. Queed Those of them who were amateurs were too artistic to be stagey, and those who were actors too experienced to be artificial. Reviews He is so much less natural and so much more stagey than the other characters that he might reasonably be expected to dabble in the sinister. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Wills' poor and stagey version of "The Vicar of Wakefield," in which, however, not even the lean intelligence of a modern playwright could quite banish the homely and gracious and tender charm of Goldsmith. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Yet I sometimes have imagined that today the stagecoach business in England is a little stagey—many things are done to heighten effects. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Not an elocutionist from the standpoint of many who are called elocutionists, who are stagey, full of mannerisms, and who exaggerate everything pertaining to elocution. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art You were right to be severe upon the stagey ways of a theology reduced so low as to bid for applause by resorting to worldly tactics. Recollections of My Youth "Go to work, Billy Boy, and don't act stagey," she commanded lightly. The Long Shadow Delegates filled with boyish glee at the stagey turn of events. What's the Matter with Ireland? They had borrowed Carol's manuals of play-production and had become extremely stagey in vocabulary. Main Street But I can't help it; he's putting on some awfully stagey plots, and they cost just as much to produce as—" "Listen here. Jean of the Lazy A He told briefly of his own meeting with Coligny Smith at the same spot two hours earlier, and of the editor's stagey warnings. Captivating Mary Carstairs She's afraid people will begin to think that extraordinary colourless charm she and you possess stagey. The Woman with the Fan The white marble of these somewhat stagey figures is beautifully worked and the effect is imposing. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 This stagey tendency increased as the boy grew older. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived You'll have to work right alongside me in all that outdoor stuff, because I am going to quit doing all those spectacular, stagey stunts, and get down to real business. Jean of the Lazy A It sounded stagey at first, but the more we knew of this sweet-faced widow of the poet the less we found about her that was not simple and sweet and natural. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers He who has got the sense of beauty in his eye can find it in things as they really are, and needs no stagey time of artificial pastorals to furnish him with a sham nature. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The lamp at her feet painted the tensely poised young body and bloodless face with quaint, stagey shadows. Red Masquerade If Donnegan had not carried it off with a certain air, the whole entrance would have seemed decidedly stagey, but The Corner, as it was, found much to wonder at and little to criticize. Gunman's Reckoning "We've got to hurry if we want to get to the Lapin Agile before closing…and I've got to have a drink," said Heineman, still talking in his stagey Shakespearean voice. Three Soldiers His manners were stagey, and there was a hollow cordiality in the manner in which he said 'How do you do,' and shook hands. Celibates She had not any real talent, at least not for acting, which had often been considered stagey and unnatural. My Life — Volume 1 The minister of St. Rest was really quite objectionable,—a ranter,—a noisy, 'stagey' creature!—and both she and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay murmured to each other that they 'did not like him.' God's Good Man Yet we have only to look at the portraits of Garrick to see that his performances would nowadays seem almost as extravagantly stagey as his costumes. Overruled But, by Jove, it is a romantic affair, positively quite stagey! Thelma And not a bit stagey or actressy, and rather what you call an uncut diamond—a gem in her way, but not fine beur, not exactly. The Judgment House Cleopatra's bucking had become feeble and mechanical, and so transparently stagey that I used to be ashamed of it. Such Is Life Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not? We Two, a novel The incredible stroke of luck, the sheer good fortune that Chase was Chase and nobody else,—vain, devious, stagey and hypersensitive,—was salvation. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Certainly the less their spontaneous impulses are sophisticated by the very stagey traditions which Bayreuth is handing down from the age of Crummles, the better. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring One day we would be in a good little hotel, with polyglot guests, and serving-maids in stagey Norse costumes,—like the famous inn at Stalheim, which commands the amazing panorama of the Naerodal. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things |
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