Sentence examples for ritual question from inspiring English sources

"It hasn't sunk in yet," Adams said, the ritual response to the ritual question.

"When a man enters a monastery he has to stand before the community and formally respond to a ritual question: Quid petis?

In response, the speaker pro tempore (a Democrat to be determined) might ask: "For what purpose does the gentle lady from New York rise?" Or perhaps Ms. Slaughter will simply be recognized without that ritual question.

Then as now, a child's ritual question on the first night of Passover -- "Why is this night different from all other nights?" -- bound one generation to the next.

One should approach one's typewriter with certain ritual questions and body language.

Its account of ancient history begins only after the youngest participant poses four ritual questions.

We all asked the ritual questions: "What if the air hose breaks?" "What if I want to go back?" "What if there's a shark (ho ho ho)?" Greg started herding us into wetsuits, sizing up each victim with an expert eye.

Of course, chances are that even if you focus and ask all the ritual questions and nod and smile and everything, it still might turn out that what the typewriter really wants to talk about is batik or cold appetizers or the defects in the minimum-wage law, and that it just feels there's not much to say about Don Gabor - but, for God's sake, at least you tried.

He was contemplating the ritual autumnal question for a senator about to retire: How has Washington changed since you arrived as a freshman?

Yet, next month, Steinem and four other women are scheduled to discuss at the 92nd Street Y "Female Genital Mutilation: A Ritual in Question".

Sure there are fringe groups of Jews that have always been against brit milah, but 99% of Jews, religious and secular, follow this ancient ritual without question.