Sentence examples for empty ritual from inspiring English sources

And then there is the genre of the thoroughly insincere pronouncement that is all empty ritual.

Since Jack's father died, the other funerals have been empty ritual.

The pre-planned phoney theatrics are an empty ritual that do not befit the wild abandon of a rock show.

Though it wasn't the heated affair that Moscow had witnessed, neither was it the empty ritual of past Soviet elections.

Diageo's critics say that it is all an empty ritual aimed at promoting the company's brands, and that there is nothing to celebrate in binge drinking.

We are not among those who complain that the tradition of measuring the first hundred days of a presidency has turned into an empty ritual.

We are all addictive creatures, stumbling through the empty rituals of life without ever knowing why.

But those votes have become empty rituals, with China's trading rights invariably renewed.

He has a devastating eye for the absurdity of empty rituals.

"How are you going to hear your old self through that?" This savagely funny book satirises the empty rituals and political theatre that determine so much of our response to returned veterans.

With its desperate attempt to cling to the increasingly empty rituals of normality, with its extraordinary sequences of ghost-dancing to big band tunes, Mitchell 's production is a reverberating howl for sleek lives suddenly interrupted by catastrophe.