(1) It's just a human machine for getting news out and subject to the normal vicissitudes of human flummery .(2) It's not just the flummery - the full-bottomed wigs, men walking backwards and so on - but the way this exercise in constitutional theatre is playing to the wrong audience.(3) No amount of folderol, flummery or flattery makes it easier to swallow.(4) Getting rid of judges' wigs and tights, and the flummery and confusion surrounding the Lord Chancellor's role, appeals to the party's modernising instincts.(5) It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia.(6) The dismal mumblings of everyday business in the House of Commons, the creaking pomposity of the Lords, the ghastly flummery of the state opening (Black Rod and all that) are overlooked.(7) she hated the flummery of public relations(8) However, this salutary concern can slide into a sense that outcome is the only true reality and that process is flummery .(9) she hated the flummery of public relations(10) Relationships must therefore be fully acknowledged and open, without public relations flummery .(11) Behind all the flummery there lie, nonetheless, some serious political issues.(12) In any case, Howard's discovery was a timely one, because he has just flimmed and flammed his way through the longest week of flummery of his career.(13) Transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a medium round tip and fill each chocolate teardrop with flummery batter.(14) The scam-artists delight in reaching back for ancient ideas, particularly those that bear some real value, and then they distort it all into flummery - which as we know, sells exceedingly well.(15) Maybe the flummery and camp of our political institutions and our enthusiastic approval of layering and posturing have helped us to achieve our multiculturalism.(16) They call for a relationship with the centre which is rational and transparent; they make the flummery of a monarch which claims to be the glue which sticks us together all the more ridiculous.
