11. Burks'fluid camera, however, avoids a stagey look to the production ." 12. With their strapping soldiers and stagey allegorical figures, they are scaled-up propaganda posters. 13. Most animation has a stagey precision. 14. We were watching it for smart characters and Sorkin's stagey , hypnotically jazzlike chatter. 15. The result was a little stagey . 16. Fields emphasizes the stagey satire by striking various poses and being overly theatrical with the dialogue. 17. For somebody with a flair for clothes that are dramatic and stagey , Peralta is surprisingly subdued. 18. Renoir's stagey , cloying masterpiece from 1881, is here from the Phillips Collection in Washington. 19. Playing a former theater performer whose stagey film acting is dismissed by Bradley as " kabuki," 20. Most of the lines have the stagey feel of being aimed more at the audience than the other characters.
