stage-manage

Object

• drama: Instead, recent findings are raising the possibility that it is water that's stage-managing the biochemical drama of life.
• affair: Indeed the actual moment was blatantly a stage-managed affair.
• event: It is their responsibility to present a stage-managed event that is free from scandal.
• conference: Before the days of stage-managed conferences, Audrey always drew huge applause for her skillful oratory.

Modifying Another Word

• carefully: Not everyone, however, was taken in by the carefully stage-managed tours.
• heavily: Usually, the gathering of the faithful is so heavily stage-managed by the leadership that there are no surprises.
• badly: It was badly stage-managed; for even the rawest investigators must be struck by the absence of the usual feminine ululation.
• increasingly: Perhaps one should question the value of such meetings anyway as they are becoming increasingly stage-managed.