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Example sentences for "stagey"

Lexicographically close words:
stagecraft; staged; stager; stagers; stages; stagge; stagger; staggered; staggering; staggers
  1. Indeed, this name of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities.

  2. Despair bred an idea in her mind; a mad one, perhaps, a stagey one certainly.

  3. But no solution presented itself better than the stagey one.

  4. The villain, Blandois, is a very stagey villain indeed; quite as stagey as Ralph Nickleby or the mysterious Monk.

  5. Under such circumstances a stagey reciter will sometimes take care to give a pathetic piece after his humorous one; and with all his many moral merits, there was much that was stagey about Dickens.

  6. Long after the revolutionists had shown more than the qualities of men, it was common among lords and lacqueys to attribute to them the stagey and piratical pretentiousness of urchins.

  7. Lady Ormstork exclaimed with a scornful and somewhat stagey laugh.

  8. And she went off in a fit of rather stagey laughter.

  9. Wagner knew the theatre and every stagey device by heart, and in none of his dramas is there anything half so hard to follow as the plots, say, of Rigoletto and Aïda and most Italian operas.

  10. Now, it will be noted here that the whole thing is ridiculously stagey and artificial.

  11. You'll have to work right alongside me in all that outdoor stuff, because I am going to quit doing all those spectacular, stagey stunts, and get down to real business.

  12. Certainly the less their spontaneous impulses are sophisticated by the very stagey traditions which Bayreuth is handing down from the age of Crummles, the better.

  13. And so, with a shrill peal of stagey laughter, she curtseyed low to him and glided from the room.

  14. A man of the world would have known the studied quaver in the voice--the throaty, stagey sweetness of it.

  15. Better even Mrs. Paynter's than solitude shared with this stagey old man, with his repellent face and his purring voice which his eyes so belied.


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