Stagiest

Definition

stagy /'steÇdʒi / adj ( usu derog ) အရင္းအတိုင္း မဟုတ္ေသာ၊ လုပ္မွန္းသိသာေသာ ဟန္ေဆာင္(အမူအရာ)။ stagy opulence ❍ He gave a loud, stagy laugh.

Examples

1. ‘Paradoxically
2. the stagey lighting
3. shoddy sets
4. breaks between shots
5. all create a hyper reality.’
6. ‘The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness
7. even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.’
8. ‘Although it is stunningly shot
9. the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is.’
10. ‘Webster begins on such a stagy note that he loses the chance to move the audience
11. making it one of the less-compelling chunks of this mostly amusing evening of seldom-performed Chekhov.’
12. ‘Floyd
13. who writes his own texts
14. may not have handled the subject with any great subtlety
15. and the opera's broad theatrics can sometimes seem stagy
16. but its dramatic honesty registers powerfully every time.’
17. ‘For all their charms
18. Mamet's early films had a stagy
19. mannered quality that kept the viewer at arm's length.’
20. ‘She had to deliver a very stagey monologue
21. and she missed every opportunity to make it moving.’
22. ‘The muffled sound
23. his stagey singing voice
24. and the documentated scenes in a car as he presses buttons on his boom box and makes a mixed tape are presented with dead seriousness.’
25. ‘William Hurt is a willing
26. low-key accomplice
27. a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness.’
28. ‘The prize was to be awarded by Betjeman
29. to the accompaniment of some pretty stagy effects
30. at Burton Constable.’
31. ‘The final fifteen minutes in particular
32. which theoretically contain the showdown between Stray Cat and Hundred Eyes
33. is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery.’
34. ‘A worthy attempt was made at historical accuracy; the script and acting were excellent
35. but some critics disliked the stagey sets and painted backdrops
36. and today this splendid series is largely forgotten.’
37. ‘The Ada is tucked away from the coast up a hill
38. though it also maintains its own separate seafront complete with a pier
39. bar and some stagey awnings.’
40. ‘The dialogue
41. however
42. is quite stagey and unconvincing.’
43. ‘What could have easily been a stagy endeavour is kept fresh by capable direction and clever coverage by director Andrew Shea.’
44. ‘The enforced gloom
45. a stagey attempt to copy the drama of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro
46. lessens the impact of the pictures themselves when seen in clear light.’
47. ‘So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone (people falling to their knees and declaiming ‘you've torn out my soul’ and all that sort of thing) that I find most of it laughable.’
48. ‘In restaurants
49. as in theater
50. patrons pay for a lush
51. contrived setting replete with stagey scenery and sophisticated lighting techniques.’
52. ‘The programme
53. largely monologue
54. consisted of a woolly
55. stagey ramble through her life and times.’
56. ‘These songs prove him capable of focusing more on visceral appeal and less on stagy esotericism while maintaining his intellectual ambition
57. and one hopes this album is a steppingstone toward cementing this vision.’