flummery

But if this is a hoax, any sort of flummery, then God help us all.

"Then why doesn't he stop his flummery about murder when you ask him to?"

How can you expect me to believe such flummery?

If the public wants to shell out cash for such flummery, what difference does it make?

"You mean to say, Doc, you're going along with this magic flummery?"

"I'm almost ready to grant there's something in your psychological flummery, after all.

His inclination is to keep flummery to a minimum.

It seemed unreliable at best, so much flummery at worst.

"In my opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations."

But the hotel has taste, and they want to provide something esoteric rather than this flummery."

Hardin's always said that it was just a fluffy flummery to get them to accept our science without question.

This was precisely the type of superstitious flummery he was leaving behind.

"I guess we should get ready for instant flummery and microwave syllabubs," he says, laughing.

He passed them up; the Vice President appears uncomfortable with such electoral flummery.

"Clearly, some of that was flummery," she said.

"I thought you said she'd refuse-was "This is some kind of damned flummery!"

That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully.

Both were wonderful, affectionate portraits of suburban flummery.

Rigiswald could read her lips form the word, "Flummery!"

This is not even a flummery: it is mere show and froth.'

He had endured the flummery, the foolery, and he had failed.

In those words he compromised with his instinctive dislike of titles and flummery of that nature.

An epic piece of flummery subtitled in English and French, it calls up characters from the city's history.

It was, in his bluntly stated opinion, a waste of breath; indulgence, flummery, lies.

"I presume this isn't flummery; that would be fatuous.