mock-heroic 的 2 个定义
- imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action: mock-heroic dignity.
- of or relating to a form of satire in which trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated in the ceremonious manner and with the elevated language and elaborate devices characteristic of the heroic style.
- an imitation or burlesque of something heroic.
mock-heroic 近义词
等同于 parody
更多mock-heroic例句
- She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.
- Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
- Sometimes they do heroic things, sometimes they wish they could.
- Claret for boys, port for men, and brandy for heroes, according to Dr. Johnson, and Hitch went for the heroic.
- He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.
- For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
- Again, she was present at the battle of Silan, where her heroic example of courage infused new life into her brother rebels.
- It is not likely that the inhabitants of Ivrea, who thus commemorate her heroic deed, will ever forget their Mugnaia.
- All men are not heroes, and in many countries men may become average hunters without being particularly heroic.
- Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.