Sentence examples for devoid of ceremony from inspiring English sources

The whale hunter is a symbolic figure in Greenland but the flurry the Spaniards are observing is humdrum, devoid of ceremony.

The art train left Barstow completely devoid of ceremony.

He found their experiences clinical, devoid of the elaborate and personal ceremonies that celebrated his own rite to manhood in the village.

This did not deprive clergy of the various faiths of the right to celebrate religious marriage ceremonies, but these were devoid of any legal effect and had to take place after the secular ceremony in order to avoid any risk of confusion.

But unlike any wedding ceremony I'd been to, this one was devoid of music, dance, even joy.

The controversy around the niqab, and whether women should be able to wear a face-covering veil at a citizenship ceremony, was an empty bonbon, so irresistibly delicious to some yet devoid of much substance.

Devoid of social value.

Devoid of all dismay.

Devoid of any empathy.

Oddly devoid of people.

Teenagers seem devoid of wonder.