(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
(n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(2) In nondiabetics, cooked flummery gave a lesser glycemic response at some time points than uncooked flummery.
(3) No sub-royal flummery will keep politicians at bay.
(4) For all its importance, Congress has not been cluttered up with the sort of gilt-edged flummery that spoils Westminster, and Mr Brown benefited from this.
(5) It would exclude a whole section of our customers and force them to buy in the chain supermarkets.” His and his staff’s livelihood, a piece of the area’s social fabric and a shop that sells extremely good products without the flummery and expense that accompanies many high-end delis will, together with the other vital businesses in the arches, disappear.
(6) Even if you look past the Downton Abbey flummery of titles that formalise and enshrine inequality, and even if you get beyond the absurd anachronisms that somehow endure into the 21st century – Commander of the British Empire – too much about the system suggests a society that has got its priorities skewed.
(7) He portrayed himself as an individualistic local MP, deeply critical of parliamentary flummery and opposed to the whip system, but accepted appointment as the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe's chief whip in 1975.
(8) The cooked blended beans gave a greater plasma glucose response and a lesser hormonal response than a cooked flummery (containing cornstarch, protein and fat) in nondiabetics.
(9) The arcane flummery brings forth dusty academics in Vaticanology, the Act of Settlement and laws of Monegasque succession.
(10) It works because, beneath all the flummery and phantasmagoria, the tentacular vines and the drooping purple "gems", "M de l'Aubépine", as usual, has uncovered something dark in the nature of human relations - in this case the instinct for parents, and perhaps especially fathers, to wish to grow their daughters in their own image and according to their own design, and, worse, to make sure that once grown those daughters are never capable of true biological (or in the Rappaccini case, horticultural) separation.
Mummery
Definition:
(n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
(n.) Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.
Example Sentences:
(1) This avascular space permit to made there surgically procedures such Lockart-Mummery to attach rectum to sacrum.
(2) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(3) It’s likely over that period that interest rates are going to go up.” He acknowledges that when the mortgage ends, “I’d be 88”, but says: “That [his age] was not an issue.” Mummery adds: “I could have gone for a shorter period and paid more per month.
(4) Glyn Mummery, a partner at FRP Advisory, which helps with financial restructuring, said the multi-currency financial arrangements in place at the Gherkin were not uncommon in big London property deals and there could be further casualties.
(5) A variant of the Lockhart Mummery operation for complete rectal prolapse in children is described.
(6) In concert with Jeb’s invocation of the familiar Republican mummery about the tentacles of Iranian influence in the Middle East, you’re supposed to hear the Carter lost us Iran!
(7) Though less extensive treatment, such as submucosal injection of sclerosing agents, is recommended to be the first method of choice because pathoanatomically the prolapse in infancy is frequently a prolapse of the mucosa, in patients where this therapy does not succeed, a Lockhart-Mummery operation may be an alternative.
(8) Mummery says the idea of an initial five-year fix appealed.
(9) A variant of Lockhart-Mummery's technique is proposed.
(10) (Leigh, Greater Manchester) Mrs Mary Lou Lockhart-Mummery.
(11) Intractable cases respond favorably to the Lockhart-Mummery procedure, a simple operation which guarantees good results.
(12) In our patients, a Lockhart-Mummery operation was used successfully in all but one patient.
(13) Yet, despite all the medieval mummery and consecrated oil of the Westminster Abbey service, it would be wrong to regard June 1953 as a moment of backward-looking indulgence, an Establishment answer to the modernism of the Festival of Britain.
(14) Donald Mummery, 77, is living proof that older people can still get mortgages.
(15) Glyn Mummery, partner in restructuring firm FRP Advisory HMV's collapse is symptomatic of the worsening malaise in large parts of the traditional high street.
(16) I decided to go straight to the building society itself,” says Mummery, a retired engineer.
(17) "This has been the worst Christmas period on the high street in living memory," said Glyn Mummery at the insolvency specialist FRP Advisory.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Mummery and his wife Eunice.