Sentence examples for ritual performed from inspiring English sources

It is a basic, unannounced ritual, performed 52,657 times last year and enacted at 9 14 one recent morning.

But even more Mexicans make their own from scratch in a tamalada, a daylong ritual performed each year by an army of female relatives and friends.

The priest has neither their ecstasy nor their grandiosity; if he risks inauthenticity from ritual performed without emotion, they risk it with the simulation of emotion.

The ritual, performed to music like a masque for the edification of a king, said things that cannot quite be put into words.

But nothing about this Maha Yaghya ritual performed in the once-abandoned Vichar Nag shrine here on a recent Saturday night was simple.

He was the subject of what was known as the Abydos passion play, a yearly ritual performed from the period of the Old Kingdom until about 400 ce.

Naipaul talks of rituals performed using human body parts.

ONE of the annual rituals performed at the United Nations General Assembly in New York is off the programme this year.

In Vietnam, Anne was moved and enchanted by the significance of family altars and the rituals performed there.

Without them and what they make, crops could not be cultivated, wars waged, homes protected, rituals performed.

Essentially, "stolen" was a series of small, private rituals, performed by five women, that may have looked better on paper than on the stage.