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How to use mock-heroic in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
The film is therefore a parody of a foreign educational movie with a hint of a mock-heroic tone.
The unifying theme of most of the top 10 seems to imply that the station's listeners are easily impressed by the mock-heroic.
Thus, returning to Through the Looking-Glass, we find the White Knight, a supremely funny, mock-heroic character.
The mock-heroic style of the intertitles contrasts well with the banal visuals.
With its mock-heroic misadventure, Levi's chronicle has long tempted Italian film directors.
Moreover, this pattern of resemblance is rendered still more striking by the prominent appearance of mock-heroic topoi and diction in both poems.
The irony is that Boileau's mock-heroic method, as he applied it in his Lutrin of 1674-83, had already been tested in a charade from 1664, the Petite Commande.
A brawl ensues, elaborately described in the author's mock-heroic style.
The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is regarded as the most typically Chaucerian in tone and content.
And a typical day in the night, as it were, becomes a sentimental, mock-heroic epic.
A headless figure guards the base, one arm raised in a mock-heroic gesture.
As for its mock-heroic exaggerations, well, they're as old as Ireland itself.
On the formal level, its massive length and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams.
This short set included mock-heroic, genteel and frenetic.
Examples from Classical Literature
Probably he had seen girls do this, in mock-heroic fashion, in some London court.
He was perhaps playing now to cheer May up, for he delivered this in a mock-heroic style, with an absurd gesture.
Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.
Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women.
Pope is seen at his best in his satires and epistles, and in the mock-heroic.
The ballads are mock-heroic, parodies of the ballads of chivalry.
The hero of a mock-heroic poem supposed to have been written by Homer.
Her grief and anger at the loss of her curl are professedly mock-heroic.
Puns abound, as the tone of the poem gets more hyperbolically mock-heroic and the music gets both funnier and grimmer.
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