Sentence examples for exercise of ritual from inspiring English sources

That yen for quality is shared by "sportsmen" patronizing private ranches that feature canned hunting of captive animals in an exercise of ritual slaughter.

In other words, if we succeed in finding a certain type of purpose, ritual with and non-ritual without, then we can continue the usage of ritual to analysis; if we fail, we must abandon the usage of ritual.

If there are no such measurable standards then the claimed objectivity is a mere cloak for subjectivity, and is no more than the exercise of a shallow ritual of verification.

Kick the session off with a creative exercise or ritual that triggers a flexible state of mind.

Medieval pilgrims had not yet lost the art of participating in the "play" of ritual, which required them to behave as if something were the case, an imaginative exercise that propelled them into new vision.

Religious doctrines are a product of ritual and ethical observance, and make no sense unless they are accompanied by such spiritual exercises as yoga, prayer, liturgy and a consistently compassionate lifestyle.

These are places of ritual.

The ritual itself, therefore, determines the positive or negative characteristic of ritual behaviour.

Being a product of ritual training.

The name refers to "the body of ritual," where "bu" means "ritual" and "gumi" means "body".

Similarly, Victor Turner suggested to discussing the "semantics" of ritual symbols.