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Meanings of mock-heroic in English
Russian
героикомическая поэма Spanish
poesia heroico-comica Usage of mock-heroic in English
1
Hohn's mock-heroic quest has a serious subtext: the trashing of the oceans.
2
I pulled myself to my full height and struck a mock-heroic pose.
3
The mock-heroic is not a genre in which he can hope to thrive.
4
Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic.
5
Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation.
6
They used to be written on trifling or obscene subjects in a mock-heroic style.
7
Mr. Beavis adopted for his greetings a humorously mock-heroic manner that Anthony found particularly irritating.
8
It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau.
9
He wore it with an air that was a strange mixture of the mock-heroic and the pathetic.
10
It is the perfection of the mock-heroic.
11
Some of the speeches have an insincere and mock-heroic tone to the reader twenty years after the event.
12
His use of hyperbole is hilarious, his mock-heroic rants a hoot, his defence of the indefensible a gas.
13
The expedition undertaken by the Bolognese for its recovery forms the basis of the twelve mock-heroic cantos of Tassoni.
14
It is the mock-heroic play.
15
But in pure comedy, mixed with farce and mock-heroic parody, he belongs to the school of "rare Ben."
16
She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.
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