One army officer says that his role has been very much hands-on rather than ceremonial.
Although dance steps occasionally surface, the overall result is not dancing but rather highly ceremonial.
But through the icy mist and the smoke of camp fires a different sort of crowd, wearing anoraks and woolly hats rather than ceremonial capes, also emerged to celebrate the winter solstice at Stonehenge.
We want to make collaborations concrete, rather than ceremonial.
Many of the most dynamic and prosperous urban centres in the world have elected mayors, with significant rather than ceremonial power.
Here, he can cook at a homeless shelter every Saturday and spend time antiquing, rather than attending ceremonial events.
As prime minister, Jayewardene amended the constitution to give Sri Lanka an executive (rather than a ceremonial) presidency, and he took office as the first elected president in 1978.
Ah Pah will be a ceremonial rather than a residential gathering place — "a college of knowledge," Mr. Carlson said on a foggy, chilly morning, sipping tea made from wild coastal vines.
Kharkiv was intended to be a real rather than a ceremonial capital, but unlike Kiev, the rival Ukrainian People's Republic's capital and the historic capital of Kievan Rus, it lacked big, declarative public buildings.
Gergiev's interpretation of Rite, measured and ceremonial rather than frenzied, is familiar in the UK, though he has also performed it with considerably more power on previous occasions.
