Sentence examples for based on ceremonial from inspiring English sources

There is a separate though not unrelated piece in the back room, a single tunic or dress stitched from burlap, its form based on ceremonial robes worn at royal funerals in Africa.

Generally, such wines do not improve in the bottle, so delayed gratification based on vague, distant ceremonial expectations is often wasteful.

That face was based on an Aztec ceremonial mask from 1300 AD that represents three stages in life, birth, and life.

Tange also designed the monument as an arch composed of two hyperbolic paraboloids, said to be based on traditional Japanese ceremonial tombs from the Kofun Period.

It was based on Mayan and Aztec ceremonial drinks, and on residues of the earliest known fermented cacao beverage, found in Honduran pots from between 1400 and 1100 B.C.

Many new religions in Japan have carefully manufactured ceremonial vestments based on Shintō or Buddhist models or of mixed or original design.

The traditional representation of him as a bearded man wearing a gown and a ceremonial hat is based on the imagination of artists working 1,500 to 2,000 years after his death.

During the 17th and 18th centuries kettledrumming developed into an elaborate and ostentatious ceremonial art that used complicated drum patterns based on the multiple tonguing technique of trumpeters.

We each have within us the resources based on our own unique life experiences to create an eloquent ceremonial order to our own existence.

All the same, a steady momentum is growing for change and against Mr Mugabe.Moreover, though recent reports of the 86-year-old leader's impending demise were based on his occasional sleepiness at official functions and a stumble or two on ceremonial steps, plainly he could drop dead tomorrow.

The Republic of Ireland is a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminister model with a written constitution and a popularly elected president who has mostly ceremonial powers.