| It looks stagy, artificial and old-fashioned, rather than cinematic. |
| For all their charms, Mamet's early films had a stagy, mannered quality that kept the viewer at arm's length. |
| The prize was to be awarded by Betjeman, to the accompaniment of some pretty stagy effects, at Burton Constable. |
| Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy. |
| Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier. |
| Or, detractors will suggest, the finished product feels too stagy and hasn't managed to pull itself away successfully from the proscenium. |
