Sentence examples for ritual procession from inspiring English sources

The music unfolds like a ritual procession, discontinuous yet mesmerizing, with lightly dancing arias abutting quasi-minimalist repetitions.

Progressing from earth to sky, physical to ethereal, the story is fundamentally religious in nature, a ritual procession in the temple of art.

A real, ear-splitting steamwhistle signals deaths, which are also marked by blinding house lights and a ritual procession to the coffin.

Triumph, Latin triumphus, a ritual procession that was the highest honour bestowed upon a victorious general in the ancient Roman Republic; it was the summit of a Roman aristocrat's career.

In the 16th century, the precursor of "Ta'ziyeh," a ritual procession of mourning for Hussein, was patronized by the Safavid Dynasty; it was an expression of patriotic support for the Shiite regime, which was surrounded by two hostile Sunni Islamic states, the Ottoman Turks and the Uzbeks.

However, photographs taken by a friend who went with them show the priest blessing the couple, placing the crowns on their heads, slipping a ring onto one of their hands and leading them in a ritual procession in what appears to be an Orthodox wedding ceremony.

Interior walls were plastered and magnificently painted with ritual processions of gods and various mythological narratives.

And we remain enthralled by and in thrall to the rituals of television and media culture: the ritual processions of headlines, news reports and talk shows, the minipageantry of advertisements.

The history of the shrine, its construction arrangements, and ritual processions are recorded in picture scrolls (emakimono), and at the older shrines there are many votive pictures (ema)—small wooden picture plaques that have been dedicated over the years by worshipers.

In all three forms there is a relatively fixed form to the ritual: a procession that conveys the divine actors to the marriage celebration; an exchange of gifts; a purification of the pair; a wedding feast; a preparation of the wedding chamber and bed; and the secret, nocturnal act of intercourse.

Ritual and processions are less common collective features of our lives now.