Sentence examples for ceremonial pattern from inspiring English sources

In its original form it was probably introduced from China by Chan (Zen) priests, but at the court of the shogun Yoshimasa (1435 90), in Kyōto, it developed into a fixed ceremonial pattern.

In its original form it was probably introduced from China by Zen priests, but at the court of the shogun (military governor) Yoshimasa (1435 90), in Kyōto, it developed into a fixed ceremonial pattern.

Kula, exchange system among the people of the Trobriand Islands of southeast Melanesia, in which permanent contractual partners trade traditional valuables following an established ceremonial pattern and trade route.

In "Other Stories," four women (Jennifer Chin, Kuan Hui Chew, Chiharu Ishii and Kayoko Sakoh) move through ceremonial patterns in dance brimming with unarticulated intense emotions.

"Our ceremonial patterns would collapse," said Victor Douville, who teaches Lakota history and culture at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D. Mr. Douville said that there had been annual pilgrimages at Pe' Sla for 3,000 years, and that if they were halted, "we might come to an end as a people".

The world champions were accused by Australian Aboriginal elders last month of "cultural theft" in a routine where they wore dark body suits with white swirling patterns and performed ceremonial steps.

As a prelude to future archaeological research, this paper presents a detailed synthesis of early ethnohistorical and ethnographic information on settlement patterns, secular and ceremonial site types, and social interactions of the Kulkalgal people who continue to inhabit the small, drought-prone reef islands of central Torres Strait, northeast Australia.

Nothing in the constitution prohibits it.Which is not to say that all public prayer is acceptable, Justice Kennedy is quick to add If circumstances arise in which the pattern and practice of ceremonial, legislative prayer is alleged to be a means to coerce or intimidate others, the objection can be addressed in the regular course.

The pattern of storms and ceremonials, of private emotion and public ritual, was established at the outset.

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.

Among the most impressive are Maori woodworks covered by sumptuous, intricate geometric patterns, and a perforated ceremonial board made by New Guinean Sawos people that has sinuous, viny forms carved in smooth, low relief on both sides and a big, flat human face presiding at the top.