mummery

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.

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.”

“A show, as you have said. Let them have their mummery. When they are gone, we will make a fruit market of what they leave behind.”

If we lose the war, she ought to take up mummery, she has a gift for it.

"It would seem you've had quite an adventure. These men you heard, you say they spoke of juggling and mummery?"