| 单词 | stagy |
| 例句 | The first officer stopped and gaped at the man in a stagy way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said it in a stagy way, as if for Henry’s benefit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now he pauses outside the bathroom door, clears his throat, a stagy ahem. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Marcell also tends to emphasize key speeches in a stagy manner by stepping to the tip of the platform, sending his eyes heavenward and adorning the verse with imploring or emphatic hand gestures. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Later, in a stagy aside, Julie glides through a party in slow motion, crooning a downtempo rendition of “Kids in America.” ‘Valley Girl’ Review: A Jukebox Musical in the Key of Irony 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Boreyko contributed to that last bit of shtick with stagy shrugs and gestures of impatience. Music Review: Pratfalls From Haydn, Swing From Marsalis 2011-02-19T00:51:49Z Few are necessary: it’s fairly stagy to begin with. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z This is how Baker works: the talk is real, not intensified or stagy. Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z I admit I was unfamiliar with Mr. Zero, but after seeing Mr. Tisci’s stagy clothes and spacey hats, I am now. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z Arsenio Hall sounds kind of stagy, like he made it up. Clown Princes: Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall on ‘Coming 2 America’ 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z And yet, a certain innate Canadian decency peeks through the stagy tantrums. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z Usually, one looks on grief-stricken as this most impulsive of heroines, played here by a rather stagy Zoë Wanamaker, is separated from the homestead that is her life. Theater Review: Chekhov's Villain Gives an Audience Someone to Root For 2011-05-31T13:30:06Z Derivative and devoid of tension, this stagy first feature from the Spanish director Lluís Quílez mystifies solely on account of its R rating. Review: ‘Out of the Dark,’ With Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In essence he was sparring with the world’s most celebrated jazz trumpeter, and he held his own, earning stagy glares from Mr. Marsalis, vicarious hollers from the hall and ultimately a standing ovation. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z The New York-based photographer Deana Lawson turns her camera on Black subjects with an approach somewhere between the warmth of a family photo session and the formality of a portrait — staged but never stagy. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The movie version received sharply divided reviews upon its release in 1973, with some criticizing it as stagy, though Roger Ebert praised it at the time, writing that the "cast could hardly be better." 'A Delicate Balance': A look back at the Katharine Hepburn movie version 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “It wasn’t right, but it was right on time,” Carlile declares, rising to an operatic peak and, in the final iteration, leaping up from there, perfectly poised between personal heartache and stagy flamboyance. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The film is relentlessly downbeat and stagy — it could easily be mounted in a theater — but there are several powerful exchanges. Alfre Woodard is devastating in the beautifully bleak death-penalty drama "Clemency" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The part can allow for a stagy cuteness or shtick, neither of which is indulged here. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z His name, Colter Wall, sounds stagy, but it’s real. Review | At just 22, Colter Wall has clearly taken in country music traditions 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Small and stagy and claustrophobic, “Shining Moon” is visually rough yet oddly enticing in its experimental awkwardness. Review: In ‘Shining Moon,’ Two Gay Chilean Actors Confront the Past 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque. How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z No such effort was needed during an opening set by Michael Mwenso, a singer and bandleader affiliated with Jazz at Lincoln Center, and given to an unabashedly stagy pep. Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Subtly Recalls Its Inspiration 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The supposed poetry of the more abstract scenes, at least as rendered in the English subtitles, verges on passé, and the staging, though filmed, is stagy. Conspicuous Consumption, Getting More Conspicuous Onstage 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Working hard to split the genre difference, they aim for a performance style that is neither too stagy for film nor too subtle for theater. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In certain ways the movie is actually stagier than Ms. Worton’s adaptation. Postgraduate Work in Bergman Madness 2011-05-22T00:23:01Z An ambitious period piece given an appropriately vintage look by the cinematographer Robert Patrick Stern, “Brooklyn 45” is overlong, repetitive and at times wearyingly stagy. ‘Brooklyn 45’ Review: A Little Something to Lift Their Spirits 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The acting, in close-ups and medium shots, has a studied, stagy quality. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Reality television morphed into semi-scripted drama, and nowadays reality shows are as stagy and mannered as the cheesiest daytime soaps. | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z As with Everybody Quite Likes Justin last week, the script was funny, but let down by old-fashioned, stagy direction. Rajar results; Great Lives; John Cooper Clarke; Happy Tuesdays 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But the film itself is the very opposite of stagy. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z “I remember people saying, ‘Yeah, but then it’s going to seem stagy,’ ” he said. How Rob Marshall Made Mary Poppins Sing Again 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z This stagy busy work is in the show’s DNA. Where Donald Trump Learned to Captivate Audiences 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z There’s the matter of a gun, for instance, that makes a sudden, stagy appearance about halfway through the play. Theater Review: ‘The Good Mother,’ at the Acorn Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z The film immerses viewers in the festival, along with stagy interludes of the tryst between Radha and Krishna. Vijay Iyer Performs at BAM Harvey Theater 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The drunken arrival of Rashid, angry that he has not been given the contract for the book cover, feels stagy and overwrought. Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The sketches were comedic, often featuring stagy costumes, and sometimes broke into song. Carol Burnett is working on a book about her TV show 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Tanna Frederick, as the sweet, neurotic, stagy daughter, is presented as the heroine. Movie Review: ‘Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,’ Directed by Henry Jaglom 2012-10-16T22:18:17Z It’s not just about lightening the mood — humor is a core element of human communication, so its absence makes drama seem more stagy and artificial. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 3: Two Targaryen Hunts 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The visually inert conference meetings and the sometimes stagy Peru segments mainly tend to reiterate the importance of the subject. Review: ‘Seeds of Time,’ a Documentary on a Crusader for Crop Diversity 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s a stagy domestic drama set in Coney Island, home of the Wonder Wheel. Screens (and Titles) Full of ‘Wonder’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z There are many shots of people seen in mirrors, or a recurring image of a feather on the windowsill seen from outside the apartment, that are meant to be thoughtful, but feel stagy. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In the dark, medieval days before the Internet, teenagers were forced to scribble their stagiest experiments in self-hood in journals and notebooks, or to express themselves through their clothes. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z "The Outfit" is a cheap, talky and stagy chamber drama that thinks it is clever. Mark Rylance is the one reason to try on "The Outfit," a crime drama that looks better than it feels 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z And while “Harmony” is serious-minded and the prince’s dedication is quite admirable, there is something a bit stagy and embarrassing to his presentation. The TV Watch: Prince Charles Dishes Dirt (the Organic Kind) 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z Ms. Wili’s contribution was “For Pauline,” a stagy, precious mix of incantation, ritualistic gestures and simplistic keyboard figures. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z Abrams plays the nostalgia factor to the very hilt of his lightsaber, and the stagy entrances with which he reintroduces beloved performers is among the most identifiable elements of his direction. The Pre-Fab “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But the overture is long, and the episode turns stagy and exaggerated. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The first half of the show seemed to have nothing but gorgeous gilding decorating stagy costumes, from velvet rompers to glamorous capes. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z Still, the nonchalance felt stagy, not helped by the fact that the models were apparently instructed to walked with a smiling-faced delicacy, their feet in a weird hybrid of sandal and leather anklet. Fashion Review: Chlo?, Givenchy, Herm?s, John Galliano, Stella McCartney: Fashion Review 2011-10-03T23:34:47Z Perhaps “Figaro” is also accountable for the concerto’s affecting mix of effervescence and melancholy, and for the subtly stagy flourish of its finale, in which a poignant minuet interrupts a buoyant rondo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z One result of the coincidence was the emergence of a new kind of actress, emoting vividly in a stagy accent acquired somewhere between Bryn Mawr and Broadway. Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Though occasionally stagy, Mr. Staller’s production presents its ideas lucidly while never stinting the emotions that underlie them. 'Major Barbara' Is Revived at the Pearl Theater 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Next to Pia Toscana, the stagy and skilled “Idol” contestant who joined him as a guest for a shuffle-rhythm, rockabilly “Holly Jolly Christmas,” Mr. McCreery was a gargoyle of stoicism. Music Review: Scotty McCreery at the Beacon Theater 2012-11-25T21:50:09Z But Gus’s observations are so stagy and unnaturally drawn out that the character’s combustible volatility is smothered in unnecessary verbiage. Movie Review: ‘Collaborator,’ Martin Donovan’s Directing Debut 2012-07-05T21:40:31Z Here, the languor and softness of Sen’s performance are very far from the stagy attitudes of Vaidyanathan. Review: The Charms and Pitfalls of Dancing the Gods on Camera 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z “Copper” settles into a cycle of stilted, stagy exposition — there’s all that history to explain — punctuated by beatings, shootings and knifings that have a protracted, antique brutality. Television Review: ‘Copper,’ a BBC America Series Set in Old New York 2012-08-16T21:49:11Z There were no speeches, or stagy hugs, or arms lifted in reconciliation. Philip Glass and Steve Reich Reunite at BAM 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Stately, stagy expositions of history have their place in the world of entertainment, and the acting is both solid and agile, communicating the feelings of passionate people in a passionate time. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z “The Outfit” basically consists of characters moving in, out and through the store’s two main rooms, spatial limitations that can feel stagy and be tricky to manage. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z With a smile, real or stagy, it’s gentle and loving and all you need to say in response to any follow-up episode of overprotection. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His friend spurns her. Is it time to put her foot down? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z When any one of those elements skews the balance, the result can feel stagy or arch, overripe or overworked. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z His performance never feels stagy or too polished. Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z And the cast from top to bottom is burdened with stagy dialogue. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In fact, what is more interesting about “Red” is its unusual lack of reliance for the most part on the sorts of stagy reminiscences in which such bioplays often traffic. On the London Stage: A Pained Artist Inveighs Against Nature 2009-12-16T22:41:00Z Videos aside, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” is filled with stagy interruptions and interludes. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z As often on Netflix, less story would have been more, and the tone swings from stagy to naturalistic to over-the-top satirical. Review: ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Netflix Is a Bold Reboot From Spike Lee 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Ruehm’s stagy visual choices give the movie a vague theatricality, as do the bare-bones production design and the exaggerated performances, most of which tend to be pitched toward the last row in the house. Review: In ‘Therapy for a Vampire,’ the Count Really Wants to Change 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z With a flamboyantly flexible voice and a stagy demeanor, Monheit is one of jazz’s most popular crooners. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Although most of the action is played realistically, two sex scenes are conducted in silhouette behind a screen, a jarringly stagy choice that dissipates all tension. 'Unorganized Crime' a quirky mob-family melodrama 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But despite something stagy about how Amaranth and Amity find rebirth on the farm, the relationships they build there are genuinely moving. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z Yet a lot of the dialogue still sounds stagy rather than spontaneous, which you can’t help noticing when the character speaking it is sitting thigh-to-thigh with you on a sofa. ‘Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Many of his movies have a certain stagy quality. | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z A handful of flashbacks of Andrew and Eric’s life as a couple — including their adoption of Wen — makes them seem like more than panicked, generic victims, while also opening up the occasionally stagy action. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Warner Brothers has also released this week, on its Warner Archive burn-on-demand label, Crosland’s final film for the studio, an enjoyable but distinctly stagy murder mystery titled “The White Cockatoo.” New DVDs: ‘Buster Keaton Collection,’ ‘The Jazz Singer’ 2013-01-06T04:13:01Z But these images are also stagy and contrived, as if his birds are players on a stage, dramatically illuminated in the glow of gaslight. Perspective | The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Corden’s background in theater certainly helped him turn gimmicks into stagy events with lasting power. Commentary: James Corden and the 'Late Late Show' was so much fun, until it wasn't 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial. Review | Tulsa massacre horror reverberates in a solemn ‘High Ground’ at Arena 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “Because ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ takes place almost entirely in the same hotel room over the course of several weeks, it could easily feel stagy or monotonous or cramped. The 33 movies we loved in 2022 — and where to watch them 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Because “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” takes place almost entirely in the same hotel room over the course of several weeks, it could easily feel stagy or monotonous or cramped. Review | ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It is both busy and static, and the impression is more stagy than dramatic. Review | A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The ogre business is as stagy as a phony mustache. Review: An eager-to-please 'Christmas Carol' noisily reopens the Ahmanson Theatre 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Capricious, volatile, egomaniacal and, yes, stagy, he was in the end culpably human. Christopher Plummer, a reading actor, found divinity in Shakespeare's words 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Biden’s backdrop was bright, the shots were tight and the interactions with virtual delegates were briefer and less stagy. No buyer’s remorse for Democrats 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z His words had a stagy yet captivating sincerity. How This Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z There’s a pandering, stagy political debate and too many Big Messages wrapped in tearful professions. “The Inheritance” Is a Tribute to E. M. Forster and an Audacious Work of Its Own 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Truong’s novel not only tells their story but does so in their voices; “The Sweetest Fruits” takes the somewhat stagy form of three long monologues, delivered to silent interviewers. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z I thought he hit a clam more because it was stagy and forced. Dems increase pressure on Pelosi for impeachment 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z No, Cadejo is decidedly Vegas, with shiny plastic patio chairs and bright, stagy lighting. - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Despite “Smaller and Smaller Circles” being visually proficient, stagy performances fueled by formulaic dialogue do little to steer the film’s narrative. Reviews: Supernatural thriller ‘Stray,’ dystopian ‘Level 16,’ Jean-Claude Van Damme and more 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z What all that tells you is that the film is smart, literary, nuanced, slightly stagy — and pedigreed to within an inch of its life. Review | ‘The Aspern Papers’ has plenty of pedigree but little passion 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The retro style isn’t intrinsically a bad thing, but it has the side effect of underscoring the stagy acting in key roles in director Carl Randolph’s production, making for a musty theatrical experience. Review | Hollywood in the ’50s is slightly musty in ‘All Save One’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z "Three Billboards," by contrast, wants to enjoy its stagy revenge drama while rolling through the American landscape. Why 'Three Billboards' and 'Call Me by Your Name' leave this theater critic cold 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The Academy preferred the fusty, stagy period piece The King’s Speech. The 20 greatest Oscar snubs ever – Ranked! 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s a portal to the crafty, stagy, venal sum of us. You can’t eclipse America’s capitalist spirit 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Tunick’s clearly budget-conscious choice to shoot largely inside the couple’s nicely appointed home compounds this routinely shot and edited film’s stagy, static quality. 'Do You Take This Man' is not the gay wedding drama you've been waiting for 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z By the time they get around to exacting some sort of retribution, the stagy execution of their preferred methods of torture will likely elicit more laughter than shivers. 'The Mason Brothers' is more gabfest than crime thriller 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The epidemic rise of heroin-addiction in suburban Long Island serves as the backdrop for some heavy-duty emoting in “Adrift,” a stagy melodrama written and directed by Christopher James Lopez. Heroin afflicts Long Island family in addiction drama 'Adrift' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Tall and slender, and frenetically animated at times, he speaks with the stagy cadence of a stand-up comic, his eyes dancing. Seven months after Freddie Gray’s death, ‘ain’t nothing changed out here’ 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z An unnatural, stagy quality occasionally detracts from the production's many charms, particularly in a fanciful third-act sequence that plays off Miss Shepherd's devout Catholicism. Maggie Smith brings a regal bearing to a bag lady role in 'Lady in the Van' 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Watching the actor disappear under white hair and latex wrinkles feels disconcertingly stagy at first. ‘Trumbo’ tells a by-the-book story of a blacklisted screenwriter 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z But the stagy quality of Dickens' characters is what makes them so humanly believable. Why Charles Dickens endures 2013-12-13T16:57:48Z Another, by the Italian Chiara Fumai, fills a small cabin with utterly obscure, stagy riffs on occultism, Hegel, and “the theosophical interpretation of the Lucifer myth.” Documenta’s Surfeit of Art 2012-06-09T08:45:00Z He was the most unstagey actor on the stage, and the stagiest off I ever met. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z I felt a chill go over me—the whole business was tricky, stagy; of a piece with the highfalutin talk. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z The Gaga-Beyoncé “Telephone” video used grainy images too, especially faux security-cam film in a stagy women’s prison, which really made the images seem like contraband. The Medium: Music Videos Make a Web Comeback 2010-05-29T04:00:00Z The characters of Morty and Sylvester Sullivan are admirably contrasted Celtic types, but both they and the English Colonel Goring are a trifle stagy and stiff in their joints. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 "Mebbe the gentleman can direct us to a good hotel," she added, with a rather stagy smile. Seven Keys to Baldpate If she had known what stagy guesswork it all was! The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Addicks rose from a great divan disturbing a pose which his white cricket-cloth suit and the scarlet shadows made so stagy that I guessed it was for my benefit. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Exeter's High Street is a curious stagy affair, with great jutting house gables, pillars, and pignons, undeniably effective, but a terror to automobilists because of its narrowness and the congestion of its traffic. The Automobilist Abroad It is all very "stagy"—but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal. Royal Palaces and Parks of France This style on so young a child gave a very stagy and quaint effect. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening It is very noteworthy, too, that Soulié, like Dumas, turned his stagy tastes and powers on to actual stage-work, and so kept the two currents duly separate. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And when the winter time came round— "Season" 's a stagier phrase— The Am. Humour of the North For his plot, Mr. Zangwill relies upon a very stagy coincidence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 The house took the burlesque with perfect seriousness and good faith—chiefly, I suppose, because it was impossible to make the vulgar rant too clap-trappy and stagy. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography Truth to tell, Mr. Quivey, from associating so much with theatrical people in the capacity of playwright, had come to be rather stagy in his style at times. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems "It is kind of stagy," she pursued it. Winner Take All Thursday.—I have found out a good deal about my stagy friend, and we are quite confidential, especially late at night. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary But in a tale of modern life no trick could well be stagier. Adventures in Criticism Compared with "The Valkyrie," "The Flying Dutchman" is ill-contrived and stagy. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The host asked again, in a stagier whisper, and made signs with his head toward the other room. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 Pantomime is an interesting and valuable form of dramatic art, but it is essentially symbolic and stagy and has, I believe, no place in the moving picture play as we have developed it. A Librarian's Open Shelf The country had never known better poets; but it was the poetry of the eighteenth century, to quote Ten Brink, "ceremonious and stagy." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Say! his jaws squeaked like a screen door when he loosened, but he belched up a beauty, sort of stagy and artificial it was, but a great help. Pardners For example, the comings and goings of Daland are fearfully stagy. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians He has a general dramatic equipment which enables him to force through the stubborn screen such stagy plays as these, that are more worth while in the speaking theatre. The Art of the Moving Picture And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how. A Librarian's Open Shelf She crushed the telegram in her hand, and turned away with a half-tragic air which at the moment struck Graydon as a little "stagy," and then he condemned himself for the thought. A Young Girl's Wooing He is always working for striking, stagy effects. Quiet Talks about Jesus With all the cheap, stagy melodrama thrown to one side to make room for the march of that bigger drama, an epic of the range land that would be at once history, poetry, realism! The Phantom Herd The Reverend Thomas Dixon is a rather stagy Simon Legree: in his avowed views a deal like the gentleman with the spiritual hydrophobia in the latter end of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Art of the Moving Picture "Ah-h!" said Agricola, further nettling his victim by a gaze of stagy admiration. The Grandissimes "A bit stagy, Batman," he said climbing into the truck and closing the door. Joe Burke's Last Stand Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects. The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 "Phyllis!" he exclaimed; then he stooped a little, his trousers bagging still more, and he stood in an attitude almost stagy, a flare of choleric surprise leaping into his face. Southern Lights and Shadows Partisans of realism tell us that this propensity is a weakness, a fault; and such it is, beyond question, whenever it leads to forced and stagy contrasts. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller "I don't want to know anything," she replied in an imperious, almost a stagy voice, as for a moment she closed her eyes. Sanine The stranger was a gesticulating, stagy fellow, much Monsieur's junior, an incessant talker in Creole-French, always excited on small matters and unable to appreciate a great one. Old Creole Days Now that was gone and she was—well frightfully mediocre—not stagy; only ridiculous, like a Greenwich Villager who had left her spectacles at home. Flappers and Philosophers But his first heat spent he soon cooled down, and was able to laugh at the stagy explosiveness of his attitude. Australia Felix No wonder that Schiller in revising for the stage decided to let Leonora live rather than provide for her death by such a stagy tour de force. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Lastly I realized that I was standing, hat in hand, overcoat across my arm, considering my revolver, and wondering whether taking it with me would be too stagy and absurd. The Firefly of France False, theatrical and stagy—as Marguerite had originally suspected—she appeared to have been in league with Chauvelin to bring about this undesirable meeting. The Elusive Pimpernel In a stagy paroxysm of jealousy she resigns her Ferdinand to Lady Milford, warning her, however, that her bridal chamber will be haunted by the ghost of a suicide. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious. The Firefly of France They may produce a certain stagy effect of contrast, but the effect was not worth producing at the expense of Tell's character. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller |
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