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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or style.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Counterfeiting or burlesquing the heroic style, character, or bearing: as, a mock-heroic poem; a mock-heroic swagger.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a satirical imitation of heroic verse
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Examples
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He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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They sally forth, mock-heroic and quixotic, as if nothing was unusual or out of the ordinary, clueless that their sense of proportion is way out of whack.
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
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They sally forth, mock-heroic and quixotic, as if nothing was unusual or out of the ordinary, clueless that their sense of proportion is way out of whack.
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
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The row which has led to the Arts Council suspending payments to the Poetry Society would be the perfect subject for one of his mock-heroic epics.
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Foer works this mock-heroic metaphor to death, honouring his colleagues – ill-groomed and unsocialised wonks, who wear blinkers and blacked-out goggles when competing – as "mental athletes" or "warriors of the mind".
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review 2011
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He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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And to mirror the level of flat expectations, the show is shot docu-style - clearly a nod to The Office - so all the banality and pettiness gain a kind of mock-heroic stature.
Adam Hanft: Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again? 2010
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Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure.
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis 2010
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These include reimagined versions of the portrait bust, such as Jonathan Baldock's salt-dough heads decorated with cloth and hair (echoing the vaguely tribal sensibility of Ryan Mosley's paintings, with which they share a gallery) and Steven Claydon's mock-heroic demagogue, subverted by the peacock feather over one eye and the fact that the patina on the coppered surface was achieved by urinating on the sculpture.
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And to mirror the level of flat expectations, the show is shot docu-style - clearly a nod to The Office - so all the banality and pettiness gain a kind of mock-heroic stature.
Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again? 2010
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