Sentence examples for invoke ritual from inspiring English sources

The Jamaican performance artist and storyteller will invoke ritual drama, song chants and traditional Jamaican folklore, tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea.

It therefore makes sense that you'd need to invoke rituals to spur you into this secret place--and that those rituals would involve donning certain clothing.

When the heads of organizations are unsure of the bases for the exercise of power and become defensive, the easy solution is to play for time by invoking rituals which may temporarily relieve anxiety.

Bryant invoked the ritual need for "closure" and swore that the process of looking would take just "two to four hours".

The worship begins with the pranapratishtha, a ritual to invoke life in the idols, followed by shhodashopachara, or the 16 ways of paying tribute.

Surveying these rooms, I find myself wishing I had a ritual to invoke, for the study I'm about to disrupt is a private, beloved retreat — an inner sanctum for reading, reflection and writing.

Interviews with masked members of the movement, who speak of their cause with quiet fury and perform rituals to invoke the protection of guardian spirits during battle, form the bulk of the Mr. Boulos's African video.

It's truthful, too, about the little games and rituals we invoke at bedtime to ward off our fear of the dark; about that extraordinary moment when your body folds into sleep and you enter a new world.

As well as black magic rituals to invoke the four princes of evil, Crowley and his devil-worshipping followers used the estate to make talismans and offered animal sacrifices to Satan.

Rarer and more costly instruments like the marovany wooden box zither and the valiha bamboo tube zither are used for certain sacred rituals that invoke the ancestors.

These rituals may invoke supernatural protection or entail ceremonial gifting, or provisioning of special foods and other treatments.