How to Use stage direction in a Sentence
stage direction
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And then there’s this beautiful stage direction that Jesse wrote in the script of Tom and Shiv in the car.
—Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
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What’s the protocol when a stage direction calls for a kiss?
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
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What’s the most famous stage direction in all of Shakespeare’s canon?
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
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Then the screenplay then cuts off in the middle of the action, with the final stage direction left hanging.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
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Did Damon and Nick’s stage direction describe a lot of the action beats?
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
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Did your stage direction include all the fun action moments like bouncing the bat on the ground or lighting a biker’s beard on fire?
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
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But the real revelations are found in the stage direction and screenplay notes.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2019
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Fans of William Shakespeare will recognize the phrase as one of the most famous stage directions in history.
—OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
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Strong: Jesse Armstrong, the writer, had written this stage direction that there’s a moment where Kendall’s up on the top of the boat and finds out definitively that his father is gone.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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With such a text-heavy play, Meadow must make sure that each prop, sound cue and stage direction supports what the characters are saying onstage.
—Sonia Weiser, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
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The lack of a set will be offset by characters in costume and stage direction that allows them to interact with each other.
—Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 4 May 2018
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Rhea Perlman's Carla Tortelli is supposed to be in her 20s, according to the stage directions.
—Eric Webb, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
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Across the stage, in a studio of his own, is the visual artist Blake Habermann, who quickly scribbles stage directions, mountains, and rays of sunshine onto a blackboard.
—Vulture, 23 May 2023
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Producers shifted the stage direction for the final act so Hunt could sit atop a table placed at center stage — the main loft location in Rent — with his right foot propped up on a chair.
—Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2019
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Some sentences are presented to us in italics, as stage directions.
—Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
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The slumbering bodies are arranged in tableau fashion, as the stage directions prescribe.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
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Martin Riker’s The Guest Lecture begins with a paragraph of stage direction, establishing the scene that will make up the entirety of the novel.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
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The cast at his mercy includes new actors such as Dennis (Sayer), who can’t memorize text and is given oversized headsets to feed him lines and stage directions.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
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Small said a favorite course was introduction to theater, exposing him to texts, playwrights and stage directions.
—Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
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Any tickle is documented, like a stage direction that everybody else can see.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Galella studied acting and stage direction in California and worked as a photographer in the air force during the Korean War.
—Sasha Urban, Variety, 2 May 2022
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The play’s title refers to a theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from backstage.
—Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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Dominic Fryers, a teacher, gave stage directions as children playing Roman soldiers mimicked nailing the child playing Jesus to a cross.
—Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
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Hopefully whoever plays Hedda also does the bear who causes that famous exeunt, chased by stage direction.
—Vulture, 31 Aug. 2022
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His blurting out of his political stage directions was a vintage moment of Trumpian indiscretion.
—Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
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Matthew Ozawa’s stage direction underscored the point, keeping all eyes trained on the soprano, with small supporting roles and chorus consistently deflecting to her.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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Serviceable stage direction was by Rebecca Choate Beasley.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
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The stage direction, by Ophelie Wolf, lacks precision — characters walk up stairs to a bridge along the back of the stage for no apparent reason and little emotional moments that could enhance the familiar plot are seemingly overlooked.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Mar. 2018
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The malleability of his stage directions reflects the flexibility of the surroundings.
—Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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Hammerstein then proceeded to go through every stage direction, every song, every scene, every line of dialogue.
—Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
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