How to Use stagy in a Sentence

stagy

adjective

• Some of his jabs seemed a bit forced and stagy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
• What turns him on is cryptic babes, brawling men and stagy fables of lust, rivalry and possession.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
• That sort of living-document approach helps keep The Invite from coming off as overly stagy or stodgy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
• The Fence suffers from dialogue overload and a somewhat stagy mise-en-scène, although those elements occasionally yield strong sequences fraught with unsettledness, if not outright hostility, when the drama finally boils over.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
• The auteur can now cross another genre off his bucket list with The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kokurojo), a stately and rather stagy historical mystery set during the 16th century, at a time when warring clans fought and outmaneuvered each other for control of the land.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026