0 past participle, past simple of stage-manage
1 to arrange and control an event carefully in order to achieve the result you want:
Many people have become cynical about the stage-managed debates between politicians which regularly appear on television.
As a result, large-scale religious manifestations are seen as stage-managed rather than in any sense spontaneous.
Examples are the publicity given to the apparent confessions made by the accused before the trial, and the impression that it was stage-managed.
That has grown into a campaign of misinformation, propagated in skilfully stage-managed and well-orchestrated medico-theatrical performances at public meetings.
It is all stage-managed from beginning to end.
I think that perhaps "stage-managed" would be a better expression to use about them.
He has cleverly stage-managed his party to the point of applying, but he will write the script no longer from that point.
We were not fooled by the stage-managed appearance of a supporting cast throughout her speech.
We know that party conferences have become rather stage-managed, and that one surely more than most.
