How To Use Mock-heroic In A Sentence
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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
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The mock-heroic style of the intertitles contrasts well with the banal visuals.
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Moreover, this pattern of resemblance is rendered still more striking by the prominent appearance of mock-heroic topoi and diction in both poems.
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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.
The State of Young Art in Britain
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A brawl ensues, elaborately described in the author's mock-heroic style.
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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.
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The unifying theme of most of the top 10 seems to imply that the station's listeners are easily impressed by the mock-heroic.
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Thus, returning to Through the Looking-Glass, we find the White Knight, a supremely funny, mock-heroic character.
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When the satirist aims to deflate false heroes, imposters or charlatans, who claim a respect which is not their due, the vehicle he chooses for this is usually the mock-heroic.
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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
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The film is therefore a parody of a foreign educational movie with a hint of a mock-heroic tone.
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New Yorker Nancy Stahl, whose specialty is WPA-style mock-heroic illustrations (like the image at right), says the fragility of her traditional medium -- the opaque watercolor known as gouache -- used to drive her crazy.
Throw Out The Brushes
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The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is one of the most admired of the Tales, regarded as the most typically ‘Chaucerian’ in tone and content.
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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.
In praise of … impoverished poets | Editorial
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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?
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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
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On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams.
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Moreover, this pattern of resemblance is rendered still more striking by the prominent appearance of mock-heroic topoi and diction in both poems.
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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
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It is these issues that should have been the focus of the press coverage from the start, not the mock-heroics of aircraft carriers, special forces and the stunt work of the young pilots in the sky.
