Sentence examples for lost rite from inspiring English sources

The piece is clearly the child of Nijinsky's lost "Rite of Spring" — thundering, "primitive," austere, even abstract — but I'll wager that it's more refined, more artistic.

One hundred years on, the original dance material may be lost, but Rite has become one of the most choreo-graphed scores in existence.

Queen and Country is an entertaining and sympathetic guide to a lost world: a rite of passage that Britain was to find it could do without.

Jack is the shaman of a Celtic bull-cult, losing its rites in the face of Chapel fervour.

He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning.

The beauty of the harmony of nature that is for ever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim.

Rite Aid lost 24 cents a share in the last quarter on declining sales.

News of the sale softens the bad news that Rite Aid lost $1.1 billion for fiscal 2000, and is restating 1997 and 1998 earnings downward by $1.1 billion.

In the nine months to Dec. 31, 2001, Rite Aid lost $570 million on sales of $11.1 billion; it also posted its first quarterly decline in operating income since Miller took over two years ago.

NB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Because the short stories in this volume are linked by the same characters, ambitious Rose and her small-town cynical stepmother Flo, Claire Tomalin won her determined argument for the book to be considered for the 1980 Booker prize (shortlisted, it lost to William Golding's Rites of Passage).

Rite Aid said it lost $83.9 million, or 10 cents a share, in the period, down from a loss of $243.1 million, or 30 cents a share, in the comparable quarter last year.