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• n  a satirical imitation of heroic verse

• The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence.
• It is a mock-heroic ballad, loose and unpretentious in form, good-natured, yet somehow not quite so memorable as it might have been.
• Uncle Scrooge never had the high-style sizzle of Superman or Prince Valiant, or the cockeyed melodrama of Dick Tracy, but the mock-heroic sweep of Barks' stories and the whimsical .

News & Articles

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• 'The Lone Ranger': Western is completely at sea ?
  A hero of radio and TV is lost in a misfire by the 'Pirates' team Not that Johnny Depp did them for free, but Disney Enterprises Inc. owes Depp and his mock-heroic portrayal of the knave Jack Sparrow a great deal for the financial success of the four "Pirates of the Caribbean" pictures. You know how it is with four hits: There's always the threat of a fifth. Meanwhile, Disney, producer Jerry ...
  July 3, 2013 - Orlando Sentinel

Quotes

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• George Will in Washington Post
  George Will, the columnist and television pundit, describes him as "an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country."
• David Berman in Globe and Mail
  You have to think about the mock-heroic aspect of what I am doing,Berman writes by e-mail from a moving van somewhere on the road that will bring his band for the first time to Toronto tonight and Montreal tomorrow. "And about my...