101 examples of mummery in sentences

Having engaged in this solemn mummery, you mentally record the fact that you have been squandering your time, and enter into a compact with yourself that no more will you so do.

I think I should have died with shame, if the child had led me into the drawing-room in the mummery I had worn to represent a nurse.

What is the meaning of that piece of mummery, Wingate?"

Jim Pink Staggs jerked off his fur cap, made a gesture, contorted his long, black face into a caricature of fright, and came loping across the street, looking back over his shoulder, mimicking a run for life His mummery set his audience howling.

vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.

Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing &c (deceiver) 548; disguise, disguisement^; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours [Fr.].

His religion is a mummery, and his Gospel-walkings nothing but dancing a masquerade.

They had eyes to see through a maze of red tape and legal mummery to the simple truth that was being hidden or obscured.

"What do you want here, with your mummery and medicine, when you know the cause of my malady well enough already?

With that rationalism which religious sects are so skilful in applying to some unimportant point of ritual, and so careful not to apply to vital questions of dogma, the Baptists reasonably argue that to baptise an unthinking infant, and, by an external rite which has no significance except as the symbol of an internal decision, declare him a Christian, is nothing more than an idolatrous mummery.

" On April 4, Palm Sunday, he attended the services at the Sistine Chapel, which he found rather tedious, with much mummery.

" The ceremonies connected with the funeral of the dead Pope and with the choice of his successor are described at great length, and the eye of the artist was fascinated by the wealth of color and the pomp, while his Protestant soul was wearied and disgusted by the tediousness and mummery of the ceremonials.

This disputation, whatever may have been its merits in former days, has degenerated in the present into a mere piece of acted mummery, where the partakers not only stutter and stammer over bad Latin, but even help themselves, when their memory fails utterly, with the previously written notes of their extempore objections and answers.

"How can I tak up again with that old mummery?

To say Mass, believing the Mass to be but a mummery, was detestable.

But he knew very well how it was: it was a miserable piece of mummery that was played only in spite of him.

At last, tired with this scene of mummery, and disgusted beyond measure with the base and hypocritical figure I seemed to exhibit, I exclaimed, "Well, I am Caleb Williams; conduct me wherever you please!

" Here the parlance ceased; for Wilder turned upon his heel, as though he were already disgusted with his part of the mummery.

By Maryland Allen MUMMERY.

Beer, Thomas, Mummery (Saturday Evening Post, July 30).

For humour plus a trifle more of excitement, "Mummery," by Thomas Beer, is included.

Much use has likewise been made of the advances of the Prussians towards Champagne, and the usual mummery of ceremony has not been wanting.

Some superstitious people who had been long under the care of a regular physician, and who were just at the turning point of receiving benefit therefrom, took an "Eddy sitting" and jumped to the conclusion that said mummery affected a miraculous cure.

REYNARD THE FOX, an epic of the Middle Ages, in which animals represent men, "full of broad rustic mirth, inexhaustible in comic devices, a world Saturnalia, where wolves tonsured into monks and nigh starved by short commons, foxes pilgrimaging to Rome for absolution, cocks pleading at the judgment-bar, make strange mummery."

The latter current, mythological, is full of magic, mummery, and scandalous legend.

101 examples of  mummery  in sentences