How To Use mummery In A Sentence
- [332] The same author says elsewhere, "Columella, Cato, Vitruvius, and Pliny, all had their notions of the advantages of cutting timber at certain ages of the moon; a piece of mummery which is still preserved in the royal ordonnances of France to the conservators of the forests, who are directed to fell oaks only 'in the wane of the moon' and 'when the wind is at north.' Moon Lore
- The horse looked about in the thick of the night, as the head of the horse peers out of the cloak, in Welsh mummery, at Mary Anerley
- The bases of morality are sapped in the name of liberty; the discipline of the Church, when not branded as sheer "mummery," is held up as hostile to personal freedom; and her dogmas, with one or two exceptions, are treated as opinions which may be received or rejected with like indifference. Public School Education
- Drag Me to Hell is uninterested in the existence or nonexistence of demons; it is merely interested in mocking them, a not altogether impious enterprise: the humorous devil character -- along with the humorous mummery used to dispel him -- appears in the Book of Tobit. Movie Review: Drag Me to Hell
- The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal.
- In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of Granvelle. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
- Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.
- The traditions of the latter three in divine service were largely those that came to American shores: plain people worshipping plainly who would have no truck with papist mummery.
- He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
- It needed to be left in peace and quiet, not be stirred up to listen to what, in her increasing ire, the nurse termed mummery and flummery. The Brentons
