Sentence examples for ceremony designed from inspiring English sources
In a Paralympics closing ceremony designed to act as a coda to a remarkable six weeks of sporting action, director Kim Gavin attempted to mix a surreal celebration of all that had been achieved with the melancholia of time passing.
President Bush, in a Rose Garden ceremony designed to show his concern over high drug prices as the midterm elections approach, said the Food and Drug Administration would soon propose a new rule to close the loopholes.
In October 2001, the museum invited a Tibetan lama to perform a ceremony designed to protect the site from "misfortune and promote positive healing energies," said a museum spokesman, Tim Hallman.
The China Daily: "Kaleidoscopic pageant sets London Games rolling: Britain's Queen Elizabeth declared the London Olympics open after playing a cameo role in a dazzling ceremony designed to highlight the grandeur and eccentricities of the nation that invented modern sport".
The Queen's Speech is a ceremony designed to give the petty, compromised manoeuvres of Parliament a transcendental gloss.
Together with masked dancers representing clouds, rain spirits, stars, earth mother, sky god, and others, the shaman takes part in elaborate ceremonies designed to ensure crop fertility.
Why disguise the failure of earlier marriages by getting wed in discreet suits, in ceremonies designed not to call attention to themselves?
Judy Mansfield is a professional celebrant and the owner of Cherish Ceremonies, designing and delivering bespoke wedding and vow renewal ceremonies for couples in the UK and internationally.
Oak, a fashion boutique that started in Brooklyn, opened a Manhattan location on Bond Street a month ago with the Opening Ceremony designs in the front of the store.
Atopia's accusations follow claims last year by Hull artist Lee Merrill Sendall that Boyle's opening ceremony design was copied from a project he had submitted in 2009 to Locog's Artists Taking the Lead competition.
Carol Lim, the Kenzo designer and Opening Ceremony co-founder, designed a limited-edition bottle inspired by an Opening Ceremony design called Girl Talk.
