| Papal priests pretended, by their senseless mummery, to convert the simple bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ. |
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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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| Most likely originating in primitive religious rites and folk ceremonies known as disguising, or mummery, masques evolved into elaborate court spectacles that, under various names, entertained royalty throughout Europe. |
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| Rightly so: there can't be many multimedia projects that are quite as satisfying and entertaining as this phantasmagoria of myth, music and mummery. |
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| The initiation ceremonies began with the men preparing sealing clubs and shellfish poles in a special hut in which they painted their faces and participated in singing, dancing, and mummery. |
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| Marion Cotillard's wide-eyed, furious performance as a Polish woman newly arrived in America propels the story beyond the usual melting-pot clichés, even as the setting evokes the mummery of vaudeville and Yiddish theater. |
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| Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all. |
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| We tried to be tolerant, but Barney lakes his toll: the braying voice, the crude direction, the inane mummery of the dancing, the witlessness of the writing. |
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