Sentence examples for meaningless ritual from inspiring English sources

The point of a seder is to engage people; it's just a meaningless ritual if it doesn't engage people.

I said the word 'massacre.' Surely Mary will understand that you are needed more at the site of innocent deaths than at a vapid ritual confirming a redundant ritual that is only preparing for yet another meaningless ritual".

All this, in its reminiscence of Ivan the Terrible, is pure Eisenstein; and what it tells us, before a word has been spoken, is that Lear occupies a kingdom steeped in elaborate, meaningless ritual.

It is disturbing how the value of an intelligent and thoughtful human being is deprecated because of non-compliance with meaningless ritual we have been duped into believing is essential.

This was after Ovechkin, who once said of himself, "Russian machine never breaks," injured his shoulder in a shoving match with a player from the Columbus Blue Jackets — the kind of meaningless ritual combat that on most teams the designated bully takes care of — and missed six games.

In addition, an Indian scholar, who happens to be an atheist, was killed after he criticized idol worship as a "meaningless ritual".

The brotherhood is sinking into decay, and they keep observing these meaningless rituals that no longer have any real function".

It is, after all, a comedy that deals in death and meaningless rituals: what has happened to the British and German gentlemen who are no longer with James and Miss Sophie?

Shot in 35 millimeter in the filmmaker's preferred brackish tones, "The Sun" traces Hirohito as he wanders about his compound engaged in meaningless rituals and surrounded by minders who are as much his guards as his servants.

Presumably there is something soothingly anonymous about this new life: It's a way to numb the shock of what he witnessed that terrible day in the towers, a way to escape into the meaningless rituals of shuffled cards and stacks of brightly colored chips.

The opposition to this school at its incipience came from two distinct groups – local secularists, and local Muslims complaining that the school wasn't Muslim enough: "It will teach a secularised form of Islam, stripped of all rules and values, and reduced to a crude universal ethos and a few meaningless rituals," said Kamran Raja, a spokesperson for those opponents at the time.