Why? It's an article that explores a part of culture, and humans, and I don't see any outrageous claims or anything else? Just an author trying to understand something and writing about it. What is the sensationalist parts exactly?
It's just flowery language, pretty common across the board in articles about culture, for better or worse.
My understanding of "sensationalist" is that something is grossly exaggerated in shocking way, not just trying to be "poetic", although I'd argue that what the author did in this article comes off as more "cringe" rather than "poetic".
We already have one sitting congressperson who copped to giving a handjob during a performance of Beetlejuice. And God knows how many of the rest are in the Epstein Files so it seems to me that a gooner congressperson would be a step up.
