Sentence examples for common ritual from inspiring English sources

We are just placing this common ritual into an unfamiliar context".

A number of common ritual elements were used alone or combined in various ways.

On Saturday, though, the group met for an increasingly common ritual, an election post-mortem on why someone else won.

It is a common ritual for pious pilgrims to climb its 99 front stairs on their knees.

The veneration of the Buddha or Buddha figure is a common ritual often practiced independently of other rituals.

All over the country right now, there will be festivals celebrating the harvest but, unlike most feste, there is no common "ritual" food.

There's not much in common, ritual-wise, between Gustave Flaubert – who woke at 10am daily and then hammered on his ceiling to summon his mother to come and sit on his bed for a chat – and Le Corbusier, up at 6am for his 45 minutes of daily calisthenics.

There's not much in common, ritual-wise, between Gustave Flaubert – who woke at 10am daily and then hammered on his ceiling to summon his mother to come and sit on his bed for a chat – and Le Corbusier, up at 6am for his 45 minutes of daily calisthenics.

Dr. Sosis, co-editor of a new journal, Religion, Brain and Behavior, said there could be parallels with more common rituals, like weddings, baptisms or bar mitzvahs.

The deeper flaw in Mr. Yerushalmi's argument, Mr. March said, is that he characterizes the majority of Muslims who practice some version of Shariah — whether through prayer, charitable giving or other common rituals — as automatic adherents to Islam's medieval rules of war and political domination.

Ultimately, while football can be seen as ritualistic, there are some key distinctions that differentiate the game from common rituals.