mock-heroic
Example Sentences
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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
This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2015
In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope’s satirical mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” was published anonymously in Lintot’s Miscellany.
From Washington Times ● May 11, 2015
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
