Word: stagey
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...oriental trip an old soothsayer told me my fortune,” wrote Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1943. “Toward the end he bowed in a stagey manner and said in French: ‘Madame, you are one of the few chosen women.’ ‘Why?’ I asked. ‘Because you shall have a vie complete—a complete life.’”Professor Hildegarde Heynen of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and a current fellow at the Radcliffe Institute is completing...
...when you strip away the politics, the largesse and the stagey rhetoric, the Howard-Costello paradigm does not resemble a long-term program to make today's students tomorrow's high-productivity workers. It's the skills, stupid! The 2006-07 Budget does not sing a melody that Australia is at the frontier of innovation, or even that it is on the road to becoming a Big Country in the world marketplace. Same old, same old song. Whatever, never mind. Just like the government, today we're all living large...
...Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton often turns up in the background of biblical subjects, but later in the century black models appeared on the losing side in topical battle pictures. Prints like Lts Coghill and Melville Saving the Colours, Zulu War, 1879 (1882), after Adolphe Alphonse de Neuville, may look stagey to us, but even back then not everyone found them convincing. A critic commented: "[We see] the ordinary Parisian negro-models, reproduced in more or less warlike attitudes." Many painters became interested in their models' own stories. A section called "Into and Out of Africa" reveals how travelers and scientists...
...convention. Still, Reagan delivered his altogether correct views on stem-cell research in the mellow tones of a genial, almost-vacant Mr. Wizard. It’s not that the speech wasn’t effective or right; it’s that there was something creepily stagey about it throughout...
...Washington would simply offer an even more floridly insincere apology - one that would, between the lines, arraign the Chinese even more specifically for the stagey opportunism of their behavior...