William Hurt is a willing, low-key accomplice, a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness. |
Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier. |
It looks stagy, artificial and old-fashioned, rather than cinematic. |
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how. |
I was excited by the romantic exoticism of the play, but it was also a little quaint and stagy. |
Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy. |