Personally, I am mystified by the rites of spring shopping.
The young Pugin, intoxicated by the Rites of Old Sarum, by Latin and crockets, rich colours, bells and smells, wanted Roman Catholicism to inspire English architecture and to purge the age of its secular miseries.
In the temple the god was worshipped by the rites of puja or archana (reverencing a sacred being or object) as though the worshipers were serving a great king.
It hung straight to her waist like a tent, giving her pale face and gaunt figure a curiously desolate, rapt air, like a priestess emptied out by the rites of her cult.
Like statues, they are consecrated by the rite of "initiation of breath," pranapratishtha (see also prayer).
Had we seen too many Brian de Palma movies to be shocked by "The Rite of Spring"?
Among the Masai of eastern Africa, youths pass from childhood to adulthood by the rite of circumcision.
Salonen opened, however, with Fanfare for Three Trumpets, Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Agon, followed by The Rite of Spring.
Unlike Malipiero, Pizzetti was baffled by the "Rite of Spring" and in 1932 signed a manifesto against modernism.
Orthodox Christian priests generally sport beards in humble imitation of Jesus Christ; the most conservative say a priest's hair and beard should not be cut because his whole body has been sanctified by the rite of ordination.
