Sentence examples for ritual show from inspiring English sources

Days before his ouster from the party in September, police officers in masks raided one of his banks in Moscow in a ritual show of force sometimes inflicted on Russian businesses that fall from favor, called a masky show.

When his new wife discovers that Kikutani has a slight chance of gaining release from his parole, he is furious when she pushes him to a ritual show of sorrow.

AFTER a football showdown between Verona and Hoboken high schools in New Jersey last month, there may or may not have been an issue of whether some students and coaches refused to shake hands in the ritual show of postgame sportsmanship.

That I called it a "ritual" shows that I instinctively knew the activity to be stabilizing, soothing and necessary.

But the commitment, the ritual, shows me again and again that a regular practice cannot help but produce something.

Other historians see Wulfhelm's role as less important, giving the main credit to Æthelstan himself, although the significance placed on the ordeal as an ecclesiastical ritual shows the increased influence of the church.

Conservative rituals show a like diversity, ranging from Orthodoxy to Reform.

Showing here is one of her absurdist ink-and-collage drawings, "Your Date is Here" (1995), a sarcastic reflection on male-female dating rituals showing a giant naked woman and a man without skin.

It is a ritual: We show up, they beat some of us up, and the next year we show up again — just to prove that we will keep showing up.

Benediction, party, pagan ritual, girlie show -- the concert on Monday night by the reunited Jane's Addiction was all of those at once.

That's the intriguing part of "Ancient China: Music and Ritual," a show of archaic Chinese bronze bells at J. J. Lally Oriental Art, 41 East 57th Street, through April 7.