high camp
Example Sentences
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In a telling moment of high camp, he dubbed their touring entourage as the “Benevolent Army of El Primo,” with Cher playing the role of Prima Donna to Sonny’s all-encompassing, self-created moniker His Supremeness.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024
"Praying for another pristine round of high camp melodrama trash from Fennell," wrote film critic Scott Clark.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
But then doesn’t the high camp of “The Gilded Age” mark it squarely as a comedy?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
Hell’s Kitchen is high camp made easier to swallow thanks to food that’s better than it needs to be.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023
On May 28, following two and a half months of prodigious effort, a high camp was dug tenuously into the Southeast Ridge at 27,900 feet.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
