Stage-manage
stage-manage (verb) - carefuly organise and control, rather than letting happen in a natural way
stage-managed events
stage-managed dinner parties
stage manage a career
stage manage her life
stage manage affairs
carefully stage-managed motorcades
stage-managed image
a stage-managed photo-call
broke free from the stage-managed sets devised by his image makers
wickedly symbolic and stage-managed
deviously stage-managed
stage-managed to stir a feeling of
fed a diet of stage-managed events
resented efforts to stage-manage
planned and stage-managed to the last detail
it was all a stage-managed event
carefully stage-managed to
could hardly have been more perfectly stage-managed
stage-managed so that it would come off well
stage-managed by the political party
stage-managed by the PR firm
stage-managed by her publicist
stage-managed show of loyalty
stage-managed the whole incident
stage-managed celebrations
stage-managed public engagements
a stage-managed deception by propagandists
will stage-manage the whole affair
Example sentences:
* Max being subtle and devious, was driven by a deep sense of insecurity to please everybody and to stage-manage his friends' lives, even though they hated it.
* It has all been carefully stage-managed.
* He felt the whole thing could not have been stage-managed better.
* She resented her husband's efforts to stage-manage every aspect of her career.
* Everything was planned and stage-managed to the last detail.
* The new Prime Minister broke free from the stage-managed sets devised by his image makers.
* If this whole event is to come off well, it will have to be stage-managed to some extent.
* He looked as though he had stage-managed the whole incident.
* He knew how stage-managed the whole event was.
* Twice last week she appeared at stage-managed public engagements with her husband, smiling and gazing at him in rapt adulation.
* The celebrations for the centenary of Voltaire's death in 1878 were stage-managed by a French chocolate firm.
* "Goebbels visited the city to give the campaign a boost, and toured around in a series of noisy, impressive and carefully stage-managed motorcades complete with motorcycle outriders."
* He has quite a lot of experience in staging events like this and will stage-manage the whole affair.
* The customer shopping for a used car realized the used car dealer was stage-managing their encounter, moving the attractive saleswoman into and out of the room as and when it suited him.
* The image of the great statesman was not, as people imagined, stage-managed or rehearsed, but it none the less all seemed a little bit too well planned out.
* Such housing arrangements tend to become small social universes characterised by patterns of restrained sociability such as stage-managed dinner parties for couples and women's coffee mornings.
* "What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call, carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead."
* "Was it all a stage-managed event by the party leadership in order to distract their own people and foreign observers from the real issues facing China?"
* The happy family dinner was all a stage-managed photo-call.
* "In contrast, those abroad, notably in the West, who were fed the diet of stage-managed events, found his assassination both momentous and incomprehensible."
* "It had been wickedly symbolic, stage-managed to stir in her a cold feeling of dread."
* The outcome of the voting in the election had been deviously stage-managed.
* "This exercise, organized and stage-managed by the Party, was presented by the official press and propaganda machine as a spontaneous demonstration of popular backing for Franco and, by extension, as proof that the Spanish regime did not need validation from outside."
* A scene from one of her films could hardly have been more perfectly stage-managed, the thought hovered, traitorously, while Lindsey managed to subdue an instinct to applaud.
* "Yesterday's stage-managed show of Tory loyalty do not remove the widespread doubts that Mr Major is simply not up to the job."
