Sentence examples for ritual capacity from inspiring English sources

Stone and jade gui, probably used in a ritual capacity, were found at Yinxu.

It is true that Athenian women had cults of their own, such as that of Artemis at Brauron, where young Athenian girls served the goddess in a ritual capacity as "little bears".

— Josep Maria Palà, 65, one of the original singers of El Cant del Barça Bayern Munich vs. Marseille SONG Stephan Lehmann's Post-Goal Ritual WHERE Allianz Arena, Munich CAPACITY 69,901 (sung in German) Announcer: In the ___ minute of play, GOOOOAAAALLLL for FC Bayern Munich / from our player with the number ___, [first name of player]!

Behaviors such as birds' mating rituals, bees' wiggle dance, and humans' capacity to learn language also have genetic components and are subject to natural selection.

Just perhaps, the "good news" may not be about a god or God, but about the human capacity to create other rituals and imagery suited to the complexity of what we are in the midst of.

This will have cheered another capacity crowd, revelling in the ritual torment of the England tourists.

Throughout history, music has been an important adjunct to ritual and drama and has been credited with the capacity to reflect and influence human emotion.

Nevertheless, the reliance on feasting as ritual practices, and the small scale of these events, suggests a limited power capacity and a weakly formalized authority, which needed to be constantly reinforced through the inferred ritual practices.

When we evolved symbolic capacity, it allowed us to create "external memory stores" such as art, ritual, and eventually the written word.

JON CARAMANICA WHITE LIES "Ritual" (Geffen/Fiction) White Lies, a three-piece band from the suburbs of London, still doesn't have much capacity for understatement.

One admires Japan's apparently limitless capacity for turning everyday activities — from making tea to killing oneself — into complex, hieratic rituals.