| If the cynics are to be believed, the attacks were stage-managed for external consumption. |
| Party conferences, like American party conventions, have increasingly become stage-managed for the televised projection of the positive party image and strong leadership. |
| It is their responsibility to present a stage-managed event that is free from scandal. |
| Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage. |
| Obviously such trips are engineered, stage-managed so that Palin is in no danger and invariably encounters interesting people and situations. |
| We see disintegration, but, disturbingly, it is phony, unspontaneous, stage-managed disintegration. |
