Sentence examples for as ceremony from inspiring English sources

For a start, you have walked across stage, balancing a board on your head while wearing a trip-hazard, as ceremony demands.

Lee's work is often about the ways in which personal life can be understood as ceremony: his poems are nearly Eucharistic in their stately mingling of body and belief, blood and words.

Performance that originated as ceremony, not entertainment, and visual art that was about interior mapping, not interior decoration, grow out of an experiential approach to knowledge and being that reaches far beyond the mere professionalization of the arts in late Western practice.

"Welcome to the greatest music show on earth," said rapper LL Cool J at the beginning of the evening in his role as ceremony host.

In attendance were the incumbent president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as "Ceremony Inspector", and vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff.

Describing it as "ceremony" and "Kabuki theatre," Fineman anticipates a complicated process where Obama offers Clinton the vice-presidency, and she will graciously turn it down, and then, BLAMMO!

There was as much ceremony as substance on Tuesday as Judge Sotomayor moved from office to office in a choreographed series of meetings with 10 senators.

Why not just expel France from the EU? Turf the French out with as much ceremony as they are allowing the Roma families.

They should be regarded less as trials than as ceremonies — another kind of public art on the theme of its inadequacy.

As ceremonies commemorating the attacks of Sept. 11 draw near, many people are planning to mark the occasion with speeches, solemn memorials, a multitude of voices.

The community has introduced special incentives for girl students, such as ceremonies when they finish school or get high marks.