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 .
'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
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...