Sentence examples for ritualized event from inspiring English sources

Since the mid-20th century the established performance situation has moved from the formal, ritualized event of the past to a more informal and spontaneous type of gathering.

By singing a spontaneous congregational song at the end of a sermon – the traditional emotional apex of the ritualized event – Obama performed a familiar trope that united his immediate audience – mostly black church-goers – with their history, that joined himself to that history, and that staged social solidarity among the musicians and the singing congregation.

For mortals, it was wine that was often used to fete the Gods within a highly ritualized event called the symposion--a word that comes from the Greek word sympinein ("to drink together").

In Bali and Lombok in Indonesia, processions like similar events in many other parts of the world are ritualized events breaking the normal flow of time.

While the country's response to these events has come to feel ritualized, the effect of all this death has accumulated.

But while the country's response to these events has come to feel ritualized, the effect of all this death has accumulated.

At weddings, the klezmorim played two kinds of pieces to accompany the ritualized series of events: those, like the plaintive doina or songlike zogekhts, for listening and reflection (and the occasion for weeping at weddings) and others for dancing.

There's a sense that news happens inside these spaces, an almost ritualized unfolding of events and disclosing of information: arrest, indictment, press conference, trial, conviction (or not).

It's become the sort of scripted, ritualized sequence of events that the anthropologist Victor Turner long ago termed a "social drama". As those old-time anthropologists never tired of repeating, ritual creates social solidarity.

The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions — ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.

Let us consider that as these events become formalized and ritualized, it becomes harder to parse one's feelings, harder to give mindful respect to each new iteration.