| 21. | To me Turner sounds quite stagy,
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| 22. | His films are stagy and expressionist.
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| 23. | At once underdramatized and faintly stagy, it keeps promising revelations that never quite materialize ".
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| 24. | Most stage-to-film adaptations must confront the charge of being " stagy ".
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| 25. | It has a stagy, nouvelle noir look to go with its contrived and rather predictable plot.
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| 26. | The dialogue can be blunt and stagy, with an emphasis on long monologues and convenient coincidence.
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| 27. | Along the way Barnaby and Marion have at each other with the stagy language of witty cruelty.
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| 28. | The movie's final scenes seem rushed, hollow and stagy, the passionate kisses unearned.
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| 29. | Affleck ambles through several stagy, irrelevant action sequences shoehorned into the movie for their tinny melodrama.
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| 30. | "What they're used to is very stagy, very English tradition,"
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