variants or stagey

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Recent Examples of stagy His Cabinet gathered in the Rose Garden alongside supporters wearing hard hats and reflective vests—a stagy reference to all the manufacturing jobs that would presumably be flooding back to U.S. soil. Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 Ferrell just isn’t right for this part: The role is too stagy, too wordy for him, and his style of comedy is just too modern and deconstructionist to handle the Borscht Belt punning of Mel Brooks. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025 Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagy
Adjective
  • Sure, there are Oscar campaigns and a few exceptions, but the theatrical potential is about on par with France at best.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 May 2025
  • The film, which is due to shoot later this year in Hungary, is being lined up for a U.S. theatrical release from Independent Film Company in 2026.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • After all, these playoffs have been remarkably exciting to watch, full of upsets and dramatic finishes.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
  • But the real draw is the close-ups on slices of pork bubbling and sizzling on hot grills, plus the dramatic pans over bowls of banchan.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • North Coast Symphony presents ‘Voices of Spring’ The North Coast Symphony Orchestra presents Voices of Spring, a program of operatic favorites, on Saturday, May 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the San Dieguito United Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdelena, Encinitas.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • The fourth and final season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones wrapped up with a bang—well, multiple bangs—on Sunday night, closing out another madcap adventure with our favorite profane evangelical preacher clan in the most ludicrous and operatic way possible.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • The European Commission hit back, accusing the ECB of being melodramatic.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Babygirl has some crucial hallmarks of that classic Hollywood mode: a melodramatic plot that places a morally ambiguous woman’s concerns at its center — though Babygirl’s melodrama is subdued in favor of stately psychological introspection.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Stagy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagy. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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