Sentence examples for camp figure from inspiring English sources

It is an almost kitsch, very nearly camp figure.

Ms. Mirren contributes her usual soldierly, professional work, but even she can't find a breath of life in the stock, camp figure she has been given to play.

She relishes using interviews to scare off anyone expecting a biddable camp figure: "I thought all the '50s rockers were so dirty"; "There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos"; "I'd really like to raise the minimum wage".

Within a year of Novello's death in 1951, his former manager W Macqueen-Pope published a biography that helped fix the image of the star as the glamorous but slightly camp figure of nostalgic West End myth.

It was a battle between Mr. Clinton, a master of image making, and Mr. Starr, whose own supporters concede him to be one of the least adept practitioners of the art of spin; after all, Joe Friday is a camp figure of fun, and choosing him as a role model reveals how out-of-touch the Starr approach to public relations has been.

Trading in your sex appeal for a career as a camp figure is often depressing (if you don't believe me, watch Janice Dickinson's appearance on Botched), but Reid has embraced her campy image as she prepares to enter middle age.

The pop-culture roots run deep, from the aristocratic pansies of the pre-Hays Code cinema through wink-wink camp figures like Paul Lynde and Liberace, up through the effete Disney villains of "Aladdin" and "The Lion King".

In this drag-happy city, where even the Republican Mayor dresses as Marilyn Monroe on occasion, camp figures are being impersonated and invoked, revived and revisited with ever-increasing frequency -- on Broadway and off, on Madison Avenue and MTV -- and not just by gay men.

(The new film and book suggest, not for the first time in the annals of Salinger biography, that the author's unassimilated trauma as a soldier in World War II, during which his service is said to have included the liberation of a German concentration camp, figured largely in his choice to withdraw from the world).

In the literature of aid work, the U.N. border camps set up after the Rwandan genocide, and particularly the Goma camps, figure as the ultimate example of corrupted humanitarianism — of humanitarianism in the service of extreme inhumanity.

Shepherds take the motor road from Tapovan to their summer camps (Figure 3) and halt at several places at night.