Sentence examples for much ritual from inspiring English sources

And the service was characterized by too much ritual servility for my liking.

2) There's as much ritual and passion involved in the making of wine as there is in the drinking of it.

And since there is no proper ceremony for observing the Fourth — not much ritual besides a parade and some looking skyward after dusk — it's left to each of us to decide just what to do about it.

In the South, there's as much ritual in turning down an invitation as there is in issuing one.

Herodotus, the 5th Century historian, was shocked by how much ritual goat screwing went on in Egypt, writing, "a monstrous thing happened in this province, a woman having open intercourse with a he-goat".

"History" is as much a ritual as a process of events; as a ritual, its protagonists are royal and divine.

What matters is how much the ritual of publicly declaring love means to the participants.

It is not just a performance group, and the piece is as much a ritual ceremony as a theater presentation.

I've learned that the art of avoiding the woodpile is as much a ritual as actually splitting the wood.

News cycles about faltering front-runners are as much a ritual of early primary seasons as eating pork on a stick at the Iowa State Fair.

Brunch — in New York, as much a ritual as it is a meal — first entered dining vocabulary when the English writer Guy Beringer published "Brunch: A Plea" in an 1895 edition of Hunter's Weekly.