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Meanings of mock-heroic in English
Russian
героикомическая поэма Spanish
poesia heroico-comica Synonyms
Examples for "mock-heroic poem"
Examples for "mock-heroic poem"
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It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau.
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But Llewyn Davis and the ginger Ulysses do suffer their way through a class of mock-epic journey.
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Andrea del Sarto is said to have recited an heroi-comic poem in six cantos called the "Battle of the frogs and mice."
Usage of mock-heroic in English
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Hohn's mock-heroic quest has a serious subtext: the trashing of the oceans.
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I pulled myself to my full height and struck a mock-heroic pose.
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The mock-heroic is not a genre in which he can hope to thrive.
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Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic.
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Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation.
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They used to be written on trifling or obscene subjects in a mock-heroic style.
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Mr. Beavis adopted for his greetings a humorously mock-heroic manner that Anthony found particularly irritating.
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It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau.
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He wore it with an air that was a strange mixture of the mock-heroic and the pathetic.
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It is the perfection of the mock-heroic.
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Some of the speeches have an insincere and mock-heroic tone to the reader twenty years after the event.
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His use of hyperbole is hilarious, his mock-heroic rants a hoot, his defence of the indefensible a gas.
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The expedition undertaken by the Bolognese for its recovery forms the basis of the twelve mock-heroic cantos of Tassoni.
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It is the mock-heroic play.
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But in pure comedy, mixed with farce and mock-heroic parody, he belongs to the school of "rare Ben."
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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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Translations for mock-heroic
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