How To Use Mummery In A Sentence
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.
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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.
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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
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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
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He knew better than anyone what empty mummery such a spectacle as this really was.
LORD PRESTIMION
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In fact, the mummery is the chief matter – which is what makes the play so attractive to children, and it may be added, so suitable for their performance.
The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play
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The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
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A bit,' I replied, trying to look past him to discover for whom this mummery was played out.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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As it stands, this old Christmas Mumming Play (which seems to have borrowed the name of an Easter Entertainment or Pasque Egg) is not fit for domestic performance; and though probably there are few nurseries in those parts of England where "mumming" and the sword-dance still linger, in which the children do not play some version of St. George's exploits, a little of the dialogue goes a long way, and the mummery
The Peace Egg and Other tales
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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 Christmas-tide.
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums.
Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron
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The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
