They needed little to release the accumulated pressure of static nerve force which the terrorizing mummery of the witch-doctor had induced. |
Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
That is as good as going to Church to be the central figures of the mummery of priests. |