mock-heroic
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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
Anyone still donning anything is living in a mock-heroic fantasy.
From The Guardian • May 26, 2019
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
