mock-heroic
嘲讽的英雄主义,嘲讽英雄主义,讽刺英雄主义,嘲讽的英雄
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- : 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.
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- : an imitation or burlesque of something heroic.
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Examples
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.