Sentence examples for without ritual from inspiring English sources

The majority of Protestant churches, while celebrating the day without ritual ceremonies, give palms increasing prominence.

Music as entertainment is mostly a vocal art played without ritual outside the court and still enjoyed by many people.

There have been lots of reports on air and in the papers about the effects of bodies going unburied or being buried without ritual.

When he died, he left specific instructions that he was to be cremated, "as expeditiously and inexpensively as may be, without ritual or ceremony of any kind".

The thing that shocked and frightened Ka was the way these girls had killed themselves: abruptly, without ritual or warning, in the midst of their everyday routines".

Among the Maori, ancestral heirlooms were not to be touched without ritual purification, and mistakes in ritual, especially in the building of meetinghouses, with their powerful ancestral associations, could be fatal.

Without rituals to follow (or to invite my friends to follow), I felt abandoned, adrift.

Unlike most US holidays, Labor Day is a strange celebration without rituals, except for shopping and barbecuing.

Ethnic groups performing universal circumcision almost always did it either at puberty with rituals, or in early childhood without rituals (Text S2; Dataset S1); in the first case, we assume parents would wait for puberty to circumcise the boy within the tribal rituals, even if he had phimosis; in the second case, a boy could have phimosis only during the first years of life.

Or just get through a reality TV series without some ritual humiliation?

"Passing," "Past" and "To Come" are successive scenes, and they show us lives with and without religious ritual.