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- adverb In a
campy way.
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Examples
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This adjective cannot apply to Adam's generic new songs or his somewhat campily entertaining cover versions of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ring of Fire."
Melody Breyer-Grell: Adam Lambert's Identity Crisis? Melody Breyer-Grell 2010
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The other three filmmakers are all straight and so are their segments but Sullivan decided to tackle the gay subtext of many classic horror films with his I Was A Teenage Werebear; a musical that campily covers the identity conflict of a high school student after he's infected by the bite of a leather-clad Werebear.
Lee Stranahan: Is Hollywood Ready for a Gay Male Adult Actor in Mainstream Roles? Lee Stranahan 2010
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I'd actually taught the video to my under-grads, read and responded to helpful blogs by several of my favorite professorial types, and grilled my tween daughter about the prison scene (which looks a lot like her other Mom's "illicit" HBO film, Stranger Inside, shot on the same location, which looks like the many women in prison exploitation flicks it campily quoted).
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I'd actually taught the video to my under-grads, read and responded to helpful blogs by several of my favorite professorial types, and grilled my tween daughter about the prison scene (which looks a lot like her other Mom's "illicit" HBO film, Stranger Inside, shot on the same location, which looks like the many women in prison exploitation flicks it campily quoted).
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This adjective cannot apply to Adam's generic new songs or his somewhat campily entertaining cover versions of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ring of Fire."
Melody Breyer-Grell: Adam Lambert's Identity Crisis? Melody Breyer-Grell 2010
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This adjective cannot apply to Adam's generic new songs or his somewhat campily entertaining cover versions of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ring of Fire."
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The other three filmmakers are all straight and so are their segments but Sullivan decided to tackle the gay subtext of many classic horror films with his I Was A Teenage Werebear; a musical that campily covers the identity conflict of a high school student after he's infected by the bite of a leather-clad Werebear.
Lee Stranahan: Is Hollywood Ready for a Gay Male Adult Actor in Mainstream Roles? Lee Stranahan 2010
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For every genre of music, there's a band that officially carves out the heart of that genre, discards it, and dances around in the carcass campily like Buffalo Bill from "Silence of the Lambs."
Urban Alienation: Cultural Carnage and Alleycats BikeSnobNYC 2008
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I found it both campily fun and totally unsettling.
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The flipside to all this fun comes at the end of 'side A' of Someone To Drive You Home during Heaven Help The New Girl, a campily dramatic break-up song that sees singer Kate Jackson imploring "Just go because you'll never be 19 again/ And I thought I told you before you don't need a boyfriend."
Hear The New Long Blondes Album & Go To Its Secret Launch Party! 2006
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