Sentence examples for rigid ritual from inspiring English sources

The skill and courage of the athletes, with their blend of nobility and violence, of devastating energy confined in rigid ritual, emerges in its full artistry (the biggest surprise is Frazier's own speed), even as the fight itself, with its tuxedoed — and almost all white — grandees shouting for the blood of others, comes off as a grotesque gladiatorial setup, a primal theatre of death.

Rather than rigid ritual observance, they tend to support the notion that religion should lead one to live a better more moral life.

They put more money into more officers following the same rigid rituals.

There's a middle ground between rigid rituals filled with overly written banter … and factory-manufactured, legitimately buzzworthy skits.

Here, the rigid rituals of duty and honor form an inextricable bond of pleasure and degradation, of sex and death — and render sin all the more exciting.

As I watched the film, I wondered how much in common there was, in fact, between the rigid rituals and arranged marriages of Georgian England and the Arab society of Nazareth.

In humans, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD) is characterized by repetitive behavior, performed through rigid rituals.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder featuring obsessions (intrusive ideas) and compulsions which are repetitive behaviors performed through rigid rituals.

Well-known compulsions are excessive hand washing, counting and detailed and rigid rituals or habits, such as excessive checking or specific morning or eating routines.

Italians may seem easygoing, but many of their habits are actually stone-rigid rituals, not to be casually flaunted.

But messy life keeps breaking up the rigid mental rituals.