Sentence examples for ritual playing from inspiring English sources
It's nearly another twenty years since I installed Dennis' litho in my home, and I still enjoy running my eyes over the video stills of the filial ritual playing out.
Like the other arts in Australia, music there has two distinct traditions: those of the European colonists and those of the indigenous peoples, whose singing and ritual playing of the didjeridu (a drone instrument) reenact the ancient traditions related to a mythological time called the Dreaming, the Aboriginal conception of creation.
Instead, a dreary ritual plays out.
A certain ritual plays out whenever the director of the Congressional Budget Office testifies before a House or Senate committee.
In a malevolent ritual, played out across the cotton South, Mr. Edd would open his ledger book to prove that the annual debt for supplies bought on credit almost exactly matched the value of George's annual crop.
On a cold, drizzly Saturday in Washington, the nation's most reassuring public ritual played out once again, as George W. Bush embraced the presidency with an alliterative promise to lead the nation with "civility, courage, compassion and character".
His latest band, the much more low-profile Superjoint Ritual, played at the Brooklyn metal club L'Amour on Tuesday night, a place where a singer is positioned only three feet higher than and one foot away from the crowd.
As Analects 2.3 (quoted above) suggests, ritual plays an important role in Confucius's social and ethical philosophy.
In his book, The Symbolic Species, Terrance Deacon claims that ritual played a special role in human evolution, in particular, at the transition point where we began to acquire the building blocks of language.
As he watched the aggressive ritual dancing of the Tsembaga warriors of New Guinea, anthropologist Roy Rappaport concluded that ritual played a critical role in making us human.
In his work, Sosis compared religious and secular kibbutzim and found that religious ritual played an important role in building trust within the kibbutz community.
