Sentence examples for mysterious practices from inspiring English sources

He said, by way of example, that for years a fable had persisted about the mosque, which bears no sign except for the single word "Him" in Arabic calligraphy on its white-clapboard siding: that it is not a mosque at all, but a cult house where mysterious practices occur.

The mix of various forms of compensation makes Ms. Mayer's pay state of the art in employee compensation and a good lesson in this sometime mysterious practice.

But over the course of seven years, he began to learn more about the mysterious practice of affinage, and he gradually determined that Murray's needed to join the monastic fold.

Her empty chair is an emblem of the Supreme Court's sometimes rigorous, sometimes idiosyncratic and often quite mysterious recusal practices.

Though Dr. Nuland's warnings of a tendency to turn to magical thinking seem like that of a worried mother, the fact that many patients today put their faith in unproven and often mysterious alternative practices does support his contention and his concern.

In this magical realm of undulating creatures and twinkling lights, Ponyo's father, a wizard named Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), practices his mysterious art.

In his hands, it is a sweeping story, encompassing global weather patterns, the mysterious histories and farming practices of the native people whose settlements rose and vanished in the desert, and the firefighters, biologists, anthropologists, water administrators and others who deal with increasing dryness today and seek to plan for an even drier tomorrow.

For example, Sheth is going to be taking a larger role in managing Vista's key best practices, the mysterious playbook of some 100 operating procedures that Vista's consulting firm uses to improve performance at its companies.

It's an original and mysterious record; it takes practice to sound this spontaneous.

The Tiffany artisans may have executed the mysterious piece as freelancers, practicing their skills when metalworkers' unions went on strike.

So there is a simmering sense of resentment in the ranks, at all levels, over the cuts and the mysterious leaks about bad practice – the cop who answered a phone call and got four hours' overtime – that appear routinely in the rabid media, alongside similar yarns about town-hall pay and "gold-plated" civil service pensions.