He has the odd feeling, in moments of reverie or honest despair, that he is speaking lines prepared somewhere far away (not far away in space, but in levels of power), and that his decisions are not his own at all, but the flummeries of an actor impersonating a leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Let it be recorded, as Paul Krugman and Josh Marshall have noted, that John McCain's various camouflages, smokescreens and flummeries regarding the subject of government regulation have been exposed in Contingencies, the magazine of the American Association Academy of Actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth Will Out - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Stop building flummeries in the air from tiny samples of data.    From Wordnik.com.  [SYNTAGMA] Reference

She says I've got to have one, and she insists on sewing at home on all sorts of fool flummeries for some dressmaker so I can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carl and the Cotton Gin] Reference

I cannot too highly applaud the readiness with which these four gentlemen in black have thrown aside all the fopperies and flummeries which have their origin in a false state of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference

Between their silken crumbles, treacle tarts, sherry-soaked trifles, jam roly-polys, fruity flummeries and banoffee pies, I couldn't understand why anyone would look beyond the borders of Britannia for sugarcoated inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Smith, as we have seen, estimated at their full insignificance such flummeries as the coronation of Powhatan, and the foolishness of taxing the energies of the colony to explore the country for gold and chase the phantom of the South Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

The flattery, hand holding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy pants flummeries that the president abhors. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2003] Reference