Sentence examples for shared ritual from inspiring English sources

The women banded together through shared ritual.

The punishment for American diversity is that we are denied the warmth of shared ritual.

There are also hundreds of shared ritual spaces, called dargahs (literally, "doorway" or "threshold"), for Hindus and Muslims.

So too, in the case of celebrities, the post-death excavation of secrets — for instance in the case of Michael Jackson — has become a gleeful shared ritual.

Lewis has an easy time showing that progress is dubious, that evil persists, that imagination has a crucial role to play in life, that life without a shared ritual and some kind of sacred myth is hardly worth living.

His space became a marriage of a few personal objects — a flea market blanket on the bed, fresh produce from his farmers' market gig, a kettle for the shared ritual of tea or coffee, his tools, camera, books (including a copy of Gaston Bachelard's "Poetics of Space") and a record player and LPs for music — with the architecture.

That is the idea of shared rituals.Psychologists distinguish two types of long-term memory.

Shared experiences, shared rituals, the same rites of passage into the squad, these are the bonds that have been broken.

Their shared rituals, of talk and tea and mutual complaint, give Maria a feeling of comfort and belonging.

But in the same speech, the prime minister took swipes at any new arrivals who were unwilling to integrate, bringing "discomfort and disjointedness" to communities knitted together by shared rituals such as school runs or "the chat down the pub".

For one thing, the extraordinary outpouring of mutual assistance during flood times was part of what defined river towns, which never had the shared rituals of planting and harvest that ruled life on the plains.