Adjective : mock-heroic dignity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Talking about his own mock-heroic poem, Cambridge continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRONY] Reference

It needed Francis to tell the story in all its mock-heroic glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Bride]

Millais 'first contribution -- a mock-heroic illustration to Mr. Burnand's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

For his sisters, however, he exchanges the heroic for a mock-heroic voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81] Reference

'Belinda,' and astonishes his wife with his mock-heroic apostrophes to her hood and patches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

It will be borne in mind, that there is throughout a mixture of the ironical and mock-heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

Sometimes, it was the mock-heroic way she told 'em "I am with much news that I shall now birth!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law] Reference

This mock-heroic is just the vein for a theme so ridiculous as the insane crudities here touched upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

An important example of the mock-heroic epic, the work was a model for Rabelais and was frequently reprinted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Baldo] Reference

He also completed his first major translation of a long Chinese poem, Li Sao, putting it into mock-heroic couplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetic Obituaries: It was at university, however,] Reference

It failed in its principal purpose of reconciliation, but it has given us the best mock-heroic poem in the language.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Miss Willcox read these lines out in a mock-heroic way, exaggerating the feeling in them, making fun of the whole poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifth Formers at St. Clare's]

He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles] Reference

Assuming a white robe and mock-heroic solemnity, and standing out in the centre of the grass, he sang forth in a strikingly rich voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

It is a rather extravagant conclusion, even in a mock-heroic poem, that when the strife was greatest to restore the lock, it flew upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

The whole scene is a masterpiece of the mock-heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems] Reference

"Good Lord!" and there was a touch of the mock-heroic in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference

"Hear, hear, ma!" cried the irreverent Percy, with mock-heroic applause.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference

Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference

They used to be written on trifling or obscene subjects in a mock-heroic style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference

That he could succeed tolerably in the mock-heroic vein, may be seen in his parody on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852] Reference

Numerous incidents of the mock-heroic style, if analysed, would reveal the same elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

It might often be said of braggadocio that it is its mock-heroic aspect which makes us laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

His mock-heroic attitude toward his exploits kept her laughing, until she said, quite soberly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference

It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference

Delicate fancy and real poetical fancy may be turned to account; but under the mask of the mock-heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Some of the speeches have an insincere and mock-heroic tone to the reader twenty years after the event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference

The voice and mock-heroic attitude of the speaker was enough to relieve the general embarrassment with a laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twins of Table Mountain] Reference

This novel is ironical, a sort of prose mock-heroic, and is one of the strongest, though certainly the least pleasing, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

The mock-heroic which invaded with success the sacred recesses of the palace, and which was fruitlessly menaced by Secretaries of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

"Amen!" said Wildney, who was perched on the back of a chair; and he turned up his eyes and clasped his hands with a mock-heroic air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference