an artificial and stagy manner a motivational speaker whose stagy presentations motivate some listeners to head for the nearest exit
Recent Examples on the WebAll good but drifting into stagy with a tad too much branding.Freep.com, 8 May 2020 But the overture is long, and the episode turns stagy and exaggerated.New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020 One result of the coincidence was the emergence of a new kind of actress, emoting vividly in a stagy accent acquired somewhere between Bryn Mawr and Broadway. Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020 Yet her characterization of Bernadette feels a mite strenuous — stagy, in the wrong way, as opposed to film-y in the right, Linklater way. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019 There’s a pandering, stagy political debate and too many Big Messages wrapped in tearful professions. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019 Yet her characterization of Bernadette feels a mite strenuous — stagy, in the wrong way, as opposed to film-y in the right, Linklater way. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019 Yet her characterization of Bernadette feels a mite strenuous — stagy, in the wrong way, as opposed to film-y in the right, Linklater way. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019 Yet her characterization of Bernadette feels a mite strenuous — stagy, in the wrong way, as opposed to film-y in the right, Linklater way. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019 See More