Sentence examples for habitual ritual from inspiring English sources

Did I find it meaningful, or was it just a habitual ritual I couldn't relinquish?

PORT CHESTER Clay Art Center "Lorna Meaden: Habitual Rituals," pottery.

Their habitual "ceremony", that ritual re-enacted murder of Madame, is more powerful for being plausible; not an expression but a symptom – and one so shocking it demands explanation.

Priests are not sanctimonious guardians of tradition but mercenaries who extort bribes at funerals; the funerals themselves are perfunctory, possessing none of the habitual ceremony and maudlin ritual so common in literature about India.

2. Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual Actually the second Jane's Addiction album art to be "banned" following their debut major label release, Nothing's Shocking, which similar to Ritual, featured orignal sculpture art by band leader Perry Farrell.

And while she must have held Jenny's hand countless times over the 24 years of her daughter's life, all those moments of habitual intimacy have culminated in this ritual.

So habitual, so inconspicuous, are these daily rituals that we perform them automatically.

I suppose that every family has its own habitual toast, a phrase that as all rituals do—sacralizes the ordinary and raises it to a mythic grandeur.

I was undergoing a kind of ritual stripping away of the habitual.

The Nazi party never experienced the ritual purges that were a habitual feature of Soviet Communist Party life under Stalin.

Ryness never misses a habitual fidget or gesture, like David Wright's ritual of wedging his bat in his armpit while adjusting his batting gloves.