Sentences with phrase «mockery of heroes»

But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

Mockery of heroes also takes place through parody, even self - parody.

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The Besiktas striker has discussed the sense of humour of English football fans, and isn't bothered by the fans mockery of the Anfield hero:

Evans will be welcomed as a hero once he scores his first goal which surely makes a mockery of his crime and his victim.

(9) As with The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China was ahead of its time, and audiences in 1986 were not ready for the flamboyant Hong Kong style action films or for the mockery of the emblematic American action hero.

There is in this tale of a man who has super powers, but refuses to be a hero, evinces a bold and bracing willingness to engage in a complicated form of self - reference and self - mockery that fearlessly breaks the fourth wall with a breathtaking geometric progression through time and space and other movies while including us in on the joke.