Sentence examples for archaic ritual from inspiring English sources
"Someday," Toffler wrote, "future historians may look back on voting and the search for majorities as an archaic ritual engaged in by communicational primitives".
She re-licensed tribalism in Britain, with all its archaic ritual and symbol, and in a world of globalised complexity, there clearly remains a childish nostalgia for those old certainties.
In another bout of this archaic ritual, Russia threatened to close Moscow's Anglo-American school and expel a batch of Americans from Moscow – though Vladimir Putin eventually said he would not stoop to such 'irresponsible diplomacy'.
Yet the installation of archaic ritual bronzes will feel familiar to anyone who frequents the Metropolitan Museum of Art's display of the same type of material in New York, so similar is the presentation.
The bling, the OTT flummery in silly uniforms, the archaic ritual and underwhelming fly-past exposed to the global village, it was post-imperial kitsch, as camp as a Gay Pride rally, and just as jolly.
The fire temple and its slow, archaic rituals feature in his three novels, especially the latest, Family Matters, published this month.
But I love the Byzantine splendour of his Symphony of Psalms, the austere radiance of the Mass or the kaleidoscopic stylistic play of Agon – products of the 1930s, 40s and 50s – just as much as this epoch-making evocation of the archaic rituals of Russian spring.
Its seemingly archaic rituals of having a break for "tea" and dressing in white lend the game an Englishness that few others can match.
It seems unbelievable, but even today, as I am writing this, young people are joining criminal organizations through archaic rituals.
They are all high-end luxury objects, or parts of objects, with jewel-like workmanship, from an archaic bronze ritual wine vessel in the shape of an owl and a drum base entwined with a serpentine dragon, to a pair of chariot fittings depicting dragons chasing phoenixes in inlaid gold and silver.
By using a Latin libretto and suggesting ritual with slow-moving, rhythmically square vocal lines, he puts the audience at a distance, as if it were witnessing an outlandish and archaic rite.
