Sentence examples for offer a ritual from inspiring English sources

Biblical sacrifices do not represent human attempts to purchase forgiveness; instead, they offer a ritual means of acknowledging the costliness of sin and alienation from God.

You can offer a ritual for ocean healing, even if it's something simple like casting a circle in the sand and offering some thoughtful words.

These men might offer a ritual in the form of a charm or amulet.

To be sure, there were others, in many places, who offered a ritual defense of him, and a loathing of the rebels.

His occasional games of bridge eventually dwindled to nothing, and when he was inveigled into a private foursome at Honors Club nine days ago, he offered a ritual disclaimer: "I don't know what I'm doing here.

You offer food, a ritual party with a goat or a cow.

Which is all to say that, if for the rest of the world the Olympic Games represent glorious achievement through sports, for many urban, educated, middle-class Indians, they offer only a ritual wallowing in a feeling of failure.

Devotees offer abhishek, a ritual of pouring water on to the murti of Neelkanth Varni, and express their reverence and prayers for spiritual upliftment and fulfilment of wishes.

It's where my local bakers opened at dawn just hours after the last sirens ceased wailing, not for fear of losing business but because they wanted to offer a comforting ritual that also consoled them.

Many covens keep quiet out of fear of persecution which is still a very real threat to people of a Pagan faith, if you are lucky enough to be offered to observe a ritual, go for it.

Is it part of the director general's job description, from Thompson to Entwistle to Hall, to offer yourself for a ritual flaying on the Today programme?