Sentence examples for ritual contrasts from inspiring English sources

Tolstoy's rejection of religious ritual contrasts markedly with his attitude in Anna Karenina, where religion is viewed as a matter not of dogma but of traditional forms of daily life.

Colorful ritual is contrasted with seedy reality.

One is composed of horizontal stripes in hot red and saturated yellow, the colors of Indian ritual powders, with contrasting patterns of wavy blue lines like ripples in water.

Their immersion in family, in history and ritual, makes a sharp contrast with the drifting, yearning Jeanne.

The parade of the walls and the modern ritual of movie-watching contrast with the home-made celebration and its ersatz echoes of picturesque village greens.

Similarly, the sacred texts of Buddhism stress the unimportance of specific avoidances and rituals (in implicit contrast to the multiple and detailed purity regulations of Hinduism) and the necessity for cultivating one's spiritual and moral development instead.

You should also introduce new rituals that, in contrast, allow your child to connect to the new environment.

The contrast of ancient ritual with feverish modernisation is the story of modern Macau: the story of development transforming a once-sheltered nook.Macau's stunning economic boom 2004 saw its GDP grow by 28%—has been powered by gambling, tourism and the construction necessary to support such endeavours.

The contrast between their ritual experiences and the daily lives of these impoverished workers, in turn, reinforces the religious convictions of these devotees of the music of the Magi.

The authors contrast this idea of ritual with sincerity.

In contrast, the religious or ritual system is highly centralized; ritual officials sanction the authority of the political elders.