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
That was when Tyrion noticed Penny, watching the mummery from the steep wooden stair that led down beneath the stemcastle.
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
You were wedded by no gipsy mummeries, as you call them; you took Sinnamenta Liversedge, in the presence of many persons, solemnly to wife.'
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
To support his new character, he practised some religious mummeries; he was seen worshipping the rising and setting sun.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
"Shrive her yourself, Gougon; few know the mummeries better!" cried a voice.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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