Sentence examples for extraordinary ritual from inspiring English sources

They also produced asymmetrical hand-built pieces like the two extraordinary ritual vessels here.

Then there was an extraordinary ritual, involving an employee at Johnny's Shoe Shine.

The ancient liturgy of morning service at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo was the setting for an even more extraordinary ritual.

The effect of this extraordinary, extemporaneous ritual was tremendous — primitive, barbaric, cathartic.

Males compete for females with an extraordinary mating ritual in which they raise the front part of the body and face each other for long periods of time.

And the singer, Attila Csihar, appearing halfway through the 90-minute set and staying through the end, did his extraordinary part in this ritual, singing in deep overtones, murmuring indistinctly and whispering like a dying man.

This museum's origins lie in two different institutions: a traditional Jewish Museum, founded in 1932, which contained an extraordinary collection of Jewish ritual objects, and the London Museum of Jewish Life, which opened in 1983 to recount the social history of the East End of London (comparable to the Lower East Side of New York).

Extraordinary scenes of sacred rituals in Arnhem Land and a beautiful cast make this a breakthrough.

When it's done, the screen lifts to reveal a gallery holding several ponderous bronze ritual objects and an extraordinary suit of Qin tomb armor made from tiny wire-linked limestone plaques.

In many cultures this is taken to extraordinary lengths, and there are elaborate rituals of gift giving.

For the uninformed, the ritual was another of the extraordinary spectacles offered by a city where hundreds of languages, ethnicities and cultures converge.