What's the difference between mummery and summery?

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.

Summery


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (2) The first music she made is still online to hear, such as 2003's Lettin' Go , a summery, defiant account of getting sacked from her job at Office Depot, where she'd been caught promoting her music during work time.
  • (3) This fact together with the maximal development of a summery trace cellular response at the moment of formation of conditioned motor reactions attests the participation of neurones of the perifornical nucleus in maintaining conditioned motor activity.
  • (4) Six wines to serve with vegetable dishes Tapada de Villar Vinho Verde, Portugal 2012 (£6.99, Marks & Spencer ) A crackling, gently lemon-sherbet spritzy white with a gentle tropical fruit character that is light enough on its feet and in alcohol to serve with summery vegetable dishes such as green salad or chilled pea and mint soup.
  • (5) Flow velocity measurements of the proximal uterine arteries provide a summery of the blood supply to all the arcuate arteries.
  • (6) After several hours' climb, passing ice-blue lakes and summery plains, we are faced with a bizarre moonscape, JCBs and pylons on the plateau that links the resorts.
  • (7) The sun is blazing, and I'm expecting a summery chat about memories of Ayia Napa and the right way to mount a lilo.
  • (8) There's a bowling green, giant games of chess and dominoes, plus a tea room dishing up summery flans, chutneys, jam and cakes made from ingredients grown in the kitchen garden.
  • (9) The Only Place is a summery, jangly love letter to California, bigger in sound and scope than Crazy For You.
  • (10) Blue, terracotta and mustard looked fresh and summery; white trainers sported a lick of navy at the ankle which winked at the Nike swoosh.
  • (11) In most of Europe this would still be an almost summery time of year but in Scandinavia, by late September, the weather is damp and cold and misty.
  • (12) A warm summery breeze keeps me cool as I cycle the 20km along the river Spree, passing the looming power stations, techno clubs and industrial ruins of Treptow.
  • (13) True, your espadrilles are probably made by exploited children, but let's not harsh your newfound summery mellow.
  • (14) It goes "dum dum dum da-dum dum", then builds up into a massive soundscape of summery-ness.

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