mummery
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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 ● Jul. 11, 2022
Typically, contemporary novelists speak reverently of their form, as if the result were some kind of sacred object, so Alice’s position has a refreshing lack of mummery.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
“You know what that means,” is all he offered, and, after an evening of portentous headgear mummery, this hint at abdication should not be taken lightly.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2019
It's all mummery and flummery, and conducted with a winning amateurishness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2012
But he was sick of mummery, so instead he grimaced, signed^ and handed the scroll back to Brown Ben.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
He grew cold to newsmen, turned his press conferences into funereal mummeries, finally began canceling them altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the “Clairvoyants,” who do business by means of certain select mummeries of their own, and who make a great deal of money in their trade.
From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
I, as medicine man and chief sorcerer, went through a great many mummeries, which I managed to make last all the forenoon.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables
Some of these games and mummeries were a little too boisterous for our modern taste, probably because they had their origin in the heathen Saturnalia of old Rome.
From Holidays & Happy-Days by Hamish Hendry
