Sentence examples for ritual over from inspiring English sources

We repeated the ritual, over and over.

"Ritual over," Mr. Sugimoto said, after the shutter snapped closed.

In truth, this was merely his father's pre-bedtime ritual: over this nightly bowl of popcorn he would often melt an entire stick of butter.

Every June, as part of a national ritual, over half a million school-leavers sit down to take the first bac exams.

The Confucian insistence on family over state, morality over materialism and ritual over reward had let the country down in the face of Western threats.

"What my father would really have wanted was for me to stay on and take the exams, and I felt bullied into elevating ritual over reality".

(Surreally, everyone would go home for dinner at one o'clock - no one called it lunch in Northern Ireland - and regroup at two, to start the ritual all over again).

As a teenager and a young adult, I entered a phase where beach courtship rituals took over from the pursuit of natural history.

Once the rituals were over, Maximian assumed control of the government of the West and was dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels known as Bagaudae while Diocletian returned to the East.

We customarily call this process a catharsis, a working out or purging of trauma and the sense of profound loss in a series of small rituals that over time enable us to heal and to move forward with our lives.

The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism.