Sentence examples for elements of camp from inspiring English sources

Although it appealed to children, the Powerpuff Girls was noted for its adult elements of camp and irony.

With costume changes that include football shorts, gold turbans, loincloths and feather boas, the show is sexy and playful, with elements of camp.

That said, the final run has retained elements of camp comedy, like our hero's dragging up as wizened old Sorceress, Gwen's enchantment, and Anthony's Head's scenery-chewing turn as the Spirit of Uther.

... This time no trace elements of camp intrude on the landscapes of Krypton, Metropolis or Smallville, Kan". Phillips also agreed with Turan that "Cavill is quite good: less impish than Christopher Reeve, more intense than Brandon Routh" (who donned the cape in "Superman Returns" seven years ago).

The element of camp in "Antigone Sr". is overt.

If all the other performances above have an element of camp, none can match the master.

It was not so much the darkness — and certainly not any element of camp, as was often the case with his haunting, more light-fingered contemporary Edward Gorey — of Sendak's vision, as it was his intensity that counted.

Ms. Blethyn is nearly unwatchable, playing Jewel's histrionic mother love with an unmodulated fury that suggests an unholy marriage of John Waters and Tennessee Williams, without the saving element of camp.

Perhaps because of the perceived element of camp in a song about nuclear war, "The Great Atomic Power" was rerecorded by the likes of Raul Malo* and Uncle Tupelo with Jeff Tweedy.

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His unconventionality was particularly idiosyncratic, with elements of underground camp, a touch of nostalgia and a subcurrent of tragedy.