| To the reader comfortably sprawled before a good fire it may seem a little stagey, as if he was speaking for effect. |
| So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable. |
| Although it is stunningly shot, the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is. |
| The programme, largely monologue, consisted of a woolly, stagey ramble through her life and times. |
| In restaurants, as in theater, patrons pay for a lush, contrived setting replete with stagey scenery and sophisticated lighting techniques. |
| It is a pretty enough aspect up and down the river from the bridge at Maidenhead, but it is stagey and artificial. |
