high camp

noun

1. a sophisticated form of camp 2

Example Sentences

And while I’d never turn up my nose at high camp, especially in a film that needs it as badly as “Christy,” Wever’s performance slowly turns into something else entirely.

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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.

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"Praying for another pristine round of high camp melodrama trash from Fennell," wrote film critic Scott Clark.

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But then doesn’t the high camp of “The Gilded Age” mark it squarely as a comedy?

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Campfire Bitters New from High Camp Flasks, prepared using Owl & Whale’s 60-day aging process, these bitters infuse a smoky campfire into cocktails like an Old Fashioned, Manhattan and Negroni for the home mixologist.

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