Sentence examples for bringing a ritual from inspiring English sources

Then finally, a bit after midnight, the Green Man effigy is set ablaze, bringing a ritual end to a magical weekend.

It's a story about the rituals involved in bringing a body back from war, and I remember tearing up the first time I read it.

"Sky Burial" brings a wealth of rituals and lore from various strains of Buddhism, as well as Mesoamerican and other spiritual traditions, all explained in ample, helpful notes that distinguish yamas from thangkas, and so on.

At summer paradises up and down the Northeast coast, the weeks before Memorial Day bring a host of rituals that are as ingrained as marching in parades, or tossing lilac boughs into the outgoing tide.

So in the Italian-American community, winter brings "a whole fig-tree ritual," Ms. Evangelista said.

Israel's Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that women cannot bring a Torah or pray with ritual garments at the Western Wall, saying that doing so disrupts the public order.

In Bordeaux, daily shopping, the commute to work by tram--the whole ritual literally brings a smile to my face as I write this".

Liam Gavin's A Dark Song, which had its debut at Fantastic Fest (along with more mainstream titles like Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and the surprise showing of M Night Shyamalan's Split) is an emotional, smart horror picture in which satanic rituals help bring a woman closure after the death of her son.

To Rabbi Mintz, that paucity betrayed a Jewish reluctance to bring an abstruse matter of ritual observance into the realm of public policy — in the form of municipal zoning or planning boards, or city councils.

In the midst of that, of course, Shirley wrote "The Lottery," in 1948, bringing ancient ritual shockingly into the modern day.

These ethical and social principles, though fundamentally the same as those promulgated in the classical dharma works, breathe a spirit of liberality: much value is set upon family life and respect for women (the image of the Goddess); no ban is placed on traveling (conventionally regarded as bringing about ritual pollution) or on the remarriage of widows.