Not spontaneous

Usage examples of staged.

This ballet, so sympathetically described by Jenny to her friend Harry, this ballet in three acts, so meticulously rehearsed, this sumptuously staged ballet -- Haseloff in person had designed noise-making mechanisms and button-spitting automata -- this scarecrow ballet was never to open.

An intelligence officer assigned to the Office of Management Analysis, he had met McCoy during a covert operation staged by Banning in China before the war.

All that elaborate materializing and vanishing act of his was staged to make us suspect Brassey of spying on us.

If Brit lived, he might talk as much as he pleased, but he could never prove that his accident had been deliberately staged with murderous intent.

This brings us to the possibility that Miss Mallender staged her own disappearance.

The police told me it looks like Messinger staged a break-in of his own office.

While some of the crew staged that street brawl to misdirect any passersby, the others never had to pick no lock.

ESU teams and a few individual police officers climbing in the towers, the vast majority of NYPD personnel were staged outside, assisting with crowd control and evacuation and securing other sites in the city.

They plastered the walls of the cities and towns with a million screeching colored posters, distributed eight million pamphlets and twelve million extra copies of their party newspapers, staged three thousand meetings a day and, for the first time in a German election, made good use of films and gramophone records, the latter spouting forth from loudspeakers on trucks.

Theamh and Morat and whoever else you claim to have suborned, staged the entire thing simply to give you the chance to go north, where you would be able to work without hindrance.

Which meant that everything that had happened since the first trip to Alsatia, as well as everything that had followed so smoothly from itthe auction, the copy of Agrippa, the cataloguehad also been staged.

A quick search with his eyes found her, sitting on a campstool by the cookshack and watching the scramble of men and animals in the branding arena as if it all had been staged just for her entertainment.

Lampkin had won the Hugo for best science fiction novel the year before, a silvery rocketship admittedly awarded by the fans who staged these conventions rather than his literary peers, but an appropriately phallic trophy for someone not entirely above using it to add to his reputation as a convention cocksman.

INSIDE the cabin, Mayberry sat down at the fire and chuckled over the farce that he had just staged.

Nine years back the mysterious raiders, known simply as the Tracs, had staged an attack and destroyed several colonies.