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stagily

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stag·y also stag·ey  (stj)
adj. stag·i·er, stag·i·est
Having a theatrical, especially an artificial or affected, character or quality.

stagi·ly adv.
stagi·ness n.
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Adv.1.stagily - in a stagy and theatrical manner; "`I cannot show my face at her house,' he declared theatrically"
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stagily
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is packaged as a piece of theatre, but the dramatic trappings are minimal, and what we get is much more like a lecture-recital of a distinctly amateurish and tedious kind, though it is hard to assess whether the feeling of something rather provisional and approximate is stagily contrived or real.
Acted (somewhat stagily, with plenty of close-ups to increase the awkwardness) by members of New York's Leonard Theater Group, the tale is nevertheless narrated in voice-over; the scene keeps cutting to footage of the voice-overs being recorded in a studio.
 
 
 
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