Stiffly theatrical

Usage examples of stagy.

Gabinius noticed the newcomers, and gave a huge, stagy start of surprise.

Oriental appearance, greeted him with a stagy overabundance of warmth and led them at once to what must have been a choice table, high up in the middle dome with a terrific view of the water.

Kingsley said with a stagy smile, though Benjamin knew this was exactly what he had wanted.

The gold saxophone receiver feels heavy and stagy, a prop, as if this call needs any more drama.

If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.

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.

All the old hokum, the ancient stagy stuff, the stirring drama of takeoff.

Make them all into real people, not standing around uttering stagy lines but acting and talking the way people would really act and talk in a situation like that.

From her stagy tone, he realizes she is playing to the other patrons of the place, whom he cannot see, invisible as gods on their bar stools.

Yet there is something curiously suspect and stagy about this evidence, as is attested by Dr.

At which point Gabinius noticed the newcomers, and gave a huge, stagy start of surprise.

Oriental appearance, greeted him with a stagy overabundance of warmth and led them at once to what must have been a choice table, high up in the middle dome with a terrific view of the water.

The semicircle broke apart to meet their advance, but nobody seemed to be speaking, which gave the scene a mimed quality, making her descent down the metal steps stagier still.

Such art was also for the masses of the people who cannot pay for original art, save in its first uncertain developments, when the stagier it is, the blacker, the bolder, the more meretriciously pretty or fantastically horrible, the better it is relished by its public.

Marguerite, with eyes fixed into vacancy, seeing neither the speaker nor her surroundings, seeing only visions of those same poor wreckages of humanity, who had been goaded into thirst for blood, when their shrunken bodies should have been clamouring for healthy food,--Marguerite thus absorbed, had totally forgotten her earlier prejudices and now completely failed to note all that was unreal, stagy, theatrical, in the oratorical declamations of the ex-actress from the Varietes.