Sentence examples for ritual requires from inspiring English sources

Participation in ritual requires that the audience largely knows what to expect.

The scripted ritual requires them to maintain an attitude of concerned detachment when confronting the dead soldiers' grief-stricken relatives.

The Passover ritual requires that Jews eat matzos at least on the first night of the celebration.

Ritual requires that worshippers circle the mountain clockwise, but almost the only people in sight were a few German and Austrian trekkers, and a trickle of dark-faced pilgrims descending the other way.

Muslim ritual requires bodies to be buried quickly, and Nasser drove to a military hospital and frantically held up the picture to anyone who might help, until a doctor told him that Omar's body had been sent to the local mosque to be buried.

This last ritual requires an extended sequence of actions.

"Memoria" is a heartfelt communal ritual requiring a large cast.

The rules of ritual required that the altar for the second plea have the same shape but twice the volume of the first.

The Okipa was the most complex of these; a four-day ritual requiring lengthy preparation and self-sacrifice by participants, it was an elaboration of the Sun Dance common to many Plains tribes.

Each Lupercalia began with the sacrifice by the Luperci of goats and a dog, after which two of the Luperci were led to the altar, their foreheads were touched with a bloody knife, and the blood was wiped off with wool dipped in milk; the ritual required that the two young men laugh.

Purists argue that's because of the time-consuming ritual required.