Meaningless ceremonies and flattery.
1 Humphreys took an almost childish delight in gold braid and flummery .
2 Enough of this sort of flummery , my sweet nephew; I don't like it.
3 She gazed at them, half-feeling the flummery petals against the palm of her hand.
4 He has sowens and milk,' (oatmeal flummery ) every night for his supper.
5 That's flummery , and you know and the Highness knows it.
6 I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick- headedness.
7 What a blessing to see a nice clean English potato again without any flummery !
8 It was, in his bluntly stated opinion, a waste of breath: indulgence, flummery , lies.
9 There were no Christmas trees, of course, nor much of the other flummery of today.
10 There was no hocus-pocus or flummery ; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes.
11 So should church ritual -it obscured the radicalism of the gospel with nostalgic flummery .
12 But there's too much flummery , and he was a hundred times more than all that.
13 Readers will no doubt think that this is official flummery ; and so in fact it is.
14 That was a nice bit of flummery , and went down the throats of the people delightfully.
15 And the result of all this flummery was:
16 We all know what all that flummery means.
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