mummery
Example Sentences
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But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.
From New York Times
Scalia writes that Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion is written “in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” overflowing with “mummeries,” “silly extravagances,” and “straining-to-be-memorable passages.”
From MSNBC
If Hobbes had seen this film, he would amend the passage to read "intensely solitary, very poor, extremely nasty, horribly brutish and rather similar to Mr Ben Wheatley's 91-minute mummery, A Field in England."
From The Guardian
It's all mummery and flummery, and conducted with a winning amateurishness.
From The Guardian
Anyhow, I think the mummery round the cauldron rather crude; the act was, no doubt, written to meet the spirit of the times.
From Project Gutenberg
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