Example Sentences

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The woman is a performer at heart and she is bound to be more theatrical than most people and there's nothing wrong with her campiness — it's why her fans love her.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2023

This shortcoming is most evident in the novel’s carefully engineered denouement, which veers between heart-in-your-mouth suspense and an unintended campiness that undercuts the gravity of the moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2021

It is knowing and camp, and knowing about its campiness, meshing the testing-the-format provocations of the late-1980s video era with the big-budget pop-machine clips of the early 2000s.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021

In this case, the two reexamined how the blatant campiness of Starship Troopers is what actually makes it great, and how its political and cultural themes were really quite clever and forward-looking for its time.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2020

Sheen is the only performer who embraces the inherent campiness of the story, and he alone makes his character’s motives at least somewhat understandable.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2020