| All too often in a film like this the musical numbers might stop the action dead with their stagey, almost animatronic feeling. |
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| The programme, largely monologue, consisted of a woolly, stagey ramble through her life and times. |
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| Although it is stunningly shot, the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is. |
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| She had to deliver a very stagey monologue, and she missed every opportunity to make it moving. |
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| With her, he sealed himself away in palatial residences, letting the people see him mainly through stagey televised ceremonials. |
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| To the reader comfortably sprawled before a good fire it may seem a little stagey, as if he was speaking for effect. |
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| Paradoxically, the stagey lighting, shoddy sets, breaks between shots, all create a hyper reality. |
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| So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable. |
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| In restaurants, as in theater, patrons pay for a lush, contrived setting replete with stagey scenery and sophisticated lighting techniques. |
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| In other even more absurdly stagey arrangements she is making like a ring-mistress, ringing a feeble change on her old dominatrix incarnation. |
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| A connoisseur of movies on TV, I'd grown up on Westerns, gangsters films, Bob-and-Bing comedies and stagey musicals. |
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| The hotel is tucked away from the coast up a hill, though it also maintains its own separate seafront complete with a pier, bar and some stagey awnings. |
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| Chatshow Charlie is pointing at Lembit with a manic gurn, while Opik – a trained pilot – kneels on the floor in stagey prayer. |
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| The enforced gloom, a stagey attempt to copy the drama of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro, lessens the impact of the pictures themselves when seen in clear light. |
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| But my advice to Hynes would be: lose the stagey hectoring, be yourself, and find your stand-up voice. |
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| That he believes charm, soft words, candlelight, good wine, and stagey entrances will overpower ideas, ideology, and partisanship. |
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| Meryl Streep makes a brief and typically stagey appearance as head girl Emmeline Pankhurst. |
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| The vocals are West End stagey, the treatment middle of the road and the results dire. |
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| Fin de siecle suspenser has atmosphere and a classy veneer, but is really kind of stagey and musty. |
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| It is, they say, more genuine and less strident, more conversational and less stagey. |
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| Everything about these storylines, and the various one-on-one confrontation scenes they are allotted, look like they have been devised through improv in rehearsal, and look stagey, shrill and actorish. |
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| You can also always be sure that their shtick is never knowingly underdone, from the duelling green lasers to the big perspex piano to Bellamy's shamelessly stagey way of drrrawing ouuut a syllable. |
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| Finally he stressed the importance of Gulf Air to the Kingdom and economy of Bahrain and wished the airline every success in the implementation of the new stagey. |
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