Sentence examples for only a ritual from inspiring English sources

Even if this were only a ritual expression of obeisance, it would stand in contrast to his customarily belligerent behavior.

By making only a ritual offering, he will be hoping to avoid international criticism ahead of visits to Indonesia and the US.

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.

In Adès, liberation from the mansion is achieved not only by a ritual of repetition but also through a visionary aria for Leticia — a harshly radiant setting of a twelfth-century text by the Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Yehuda Halevi, expressing a longing for a lost homeland.

0.71 We involve new members only after a ritual that is well known and practiced in our guild.

Historians say that the photographic grin not only a recent ritual, but also a somewhat artificial one: abetted by the camera industry, and entwined with the rise of cheerfulness as an American cultural norm.

"Narendra was married to Jashodaben Chiman Modi at a very young age by our parents, but it was only a formal ritual... ........ Mr Modi's older brother Som said in a statement issued by the party's Gujarat wing on Thursday.

(In some cases, such as particular valor in combat, he might receive the honor sooner, much as battlefield promotions are accorded today, and with only a brief ritual dubbing).

Almost all scholars nowadays think Smith was telling the truth about the incident, but many think that he misunderstood what he experienced and that the threat of death was symbolic only, part of a ritual of adoption.

He chose only to send a ritual offering to the shrine, via an aide.Campaigning for his party's leadership in 2012, Mr Abe pledged to visit Yasukuni, and he has expressed regret for not having visited during his first turn as prime minister, which he took from 2006 to 2007.

Traditionally, among the Otoro there were no political offices, only a special hereditary ritual office that of "chief of the Path," who acted as intermediary in peace negotiations between conflicting parties.