mock-heroic
Example Sentences
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The story unfolds from De Groots’s diary entries alternating with Pike’s mock-heroic sections called “Finn in the Bowels of Teutonia.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022
Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2021
His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.”
From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019
Thus motivated, “we got a band together, and it all happened right here,” he went on, raising his arms in mock-heroic triumph.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2018
She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
