Usage of "mock-epic" | TermGallery

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Examples for "mock-heroic"

Hohn's mock-heroic quest has a serious subtext: the trashing of the oceans. 
 The Guardian 

I pulled myself to my full height and struck a mock-heroic pose. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

The mock-heroic is not a genre in which he can hope to thrive. 
 The Guardian 

Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic. 
 A Poor Wise Man 

Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation. 
 The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel 

It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau. 
 Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist 

Andrea del Sarto is said to have recited an heroi-comic poem in six cantos called the "Battle of the frogs and mice." 
 Fra Bartolommeo 

Usage of mock-epic in English

But Llewyn Davis and the ginger Ulysses do suffer their way through a class of mock-epic journey. 
 The Irish Times 

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