Sentence examples for unchanging ritual from inspiring English sources
Where the typical journalistic interview tailors questions to the particular qualities of a subject, the Proust questionnaire's unchanging ritual confers a special kind of prestige, granting the tastes, opinions, and preferences of celebrities a timeless, philosophical appeal.
And while a bar mitzvah may seem like an ancient and unchanging ritual, it's relatively new as things go in Judaism, dating to 14th-century Germany (13 candle ceremonies and swag bags emblazoned with the celebrant's name are of even more recent vintage).
In "Haggadah and History" (Jewish Publication Society, 1975), a survey of printed Haggadot from the collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi shows that despite the relatively unchanging ritual of the Seder, Haggadot were always interacting with changing environments.
Christ Episcopal was in the High Church tradition, a full-bore "bells and smells" Anglo-Catholic experience, with Sanctus bells and incense, and the unchanging comfort of ritual solemnity.
It was a natural ritual: unscheduled, unchanging, traditional.
COMMUNIST Party plenums are rituals of unchanging arcana.
Ritualistic behavior involves an unvarying pattern of daily activities, such as an unchanging menu or a dressing ritual.
For most people, religion has ceased to be a matter of belonging to a clerically led community, affirming unchanging dogma, participating in prescribed rituals, and holding conservative social attitudes.
Download: 'Distant Call'; 'Unchanging Window'.
It's orderly and unchanging.
