Then he looked up at me, and for a moment the staginess was gone.

But I was put off by the sterile staginess of the whole thing.

The film, too, never quite escapes the staginess of the event.

Later the staginess of the film was blamed for this commercial failure.

Despite his profession, there was little theatricality or staginess about him.

But the staginess of her acting was unbearable, and grew worse as she went on.

All these movies, so different in, say, the staginess of "Whoopee!"

There was a kind of staginess to it.

The results, for all their staginess, are helpful readings of famously difficult texts.

The artist combines the freedom of fantasy and nature with the staginess of the academy.

Finally, the photographs have an aura of staginess.

Julia appreciated his staginess and felt secure in his obvious competence.

The film is so beautifully acted that you barely notice the staginess of some of the speeches.

Recitalists are storytellers, not actors; they should leave staginess to opera directors.

Other than an occasional slight staginess in Ms. Lampert's manner, there is not a wrong note here.

The direction, which aspires toward an epic grandeur, gives many of the scenes an awkward, self-conscious staginess.

With La Tour there's always a dose of theatrics, a heightened reality that can edge over into staginess.

The sets, costumes and lighting quickly settle on a dire level of crude staginess and stay there.

"Frida," despite its six Oscar nominations, took some critical lumps for moments of soap-opera staginess.

But there is a flatness, even a staginess, to these random-slice characters that is hard to overcome.

Elsewhere more encumbered by her surroundings, she nevertheless managed to transcend the staginess with impressive regularity.

This meant that the whole concert had an intriguing undercurrent of staginess, as if the musical instruments were merely visual props.

Staginess gives way to subtlety; arch narration interrupts moments of wrenching naturalism.

The white and gold suggest Jackson's blend of innocence and glitter, spontaneity and staginess.

The staginess extends to the (intentionally?)