How To Use Ritualistic In A Sentence

Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory.
Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct.
But the publisher I had at the time (the late Mr. George Bentley) assured me that if I wrote another 'spiritualistic' book, I should lose the public hearing I had just gained. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
It is customary, almost ritualistic, to conclude a paper like this with a call for more research, to broaden the sample, and so on.
It is ironic that in an issue devoted to the preservation of salmon you glorify the ritualistic hunting and consumption of them.

spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers 'stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable -- as they will probably be again some day. The Ancien Regime
The story has a tribal storyteller style to it and is almost ritualistic in places - what prompted this?
In response, the pointer allegedly moves in such a way as to spell out or point to a spiritualistic and telepathic answer on the board.
Today, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaption of p'ungmul nori, which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers. Latest News
The ritualistic killings were not solved for some months. Times, Sunday Times
This ritualistic preparation is not shown to titillate the viewer.
The carefully planned ritualistic murder was considered unique by detectives. Times, Sunday Times
One possibility is that some of the major centres of art production (such as Lascaux in south-west France, or Altamira in northern Spain) served as major ritualistic or ceremonial centres - perhaps the scene of important ceremonies during regular annual gatherings by the human groups. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
I was handed one ritualistic murder by French police and spent a year in total frustration as incompetence and unwillingness saw the investigation fold. The Sun
Our leaders go through a ritualistic exercise, vowing to unearth the culprits immediately and giving them exemplary punishment.
It met twice a year to discuss and vote the departmental budget, which it did, often after ritualistic grumbling and symbolic resistance. The Government and Politics of France
an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms.
Nevertheless, the instinctive part of me -- that part of us which refuses to fraternize with reason, and which we call the superstitious because we cannot explain it -- would not let go the spiritualistic theory, and during all my life has never quite surrendered it to the attacks of my brain. Sacred and Profane Love
They dragged up a young boy's body who was the victim of a ritualistic killing.
Of course, the term "mediumship," as above defined, lacks a clear meaning unless the term "spiritualistic," or "spiritualism" be defined. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
It mentions that holy sadhus in Borgampad carry ritualistic water vessels, called kamandals, made from a fruit resembling female butt-cheeks. The Fruit Hunters
Where in Hegel the castrated Cybele is the emptiness that distracts, in Schelling she is the fullness that excites an attack in the form of a ritualistic consumption of her body. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
Objects connected with the saint have assumed an almost ritualistic significance.
Sir Arthur actually expresses the opinion that Houdini would be ‘helped’ by being shown genuine spiritualistic phenomena, as if that were the greatest goal imaginable.
The poet's ritualistic performance, however, does not simply imitate a traditional daily Mass.
Alexandrian theology is generally Platonistic and spiritualistic and it sees the soul as the center of human existence.
A scene between her and a man plays out in a dumbshow in a doorway, like a ritualistic re-enactment of an everyday scene.
The ancient Maya were imagined as a prehistoric, mysterious, ritualistic cult, ineluctably estranged from European historical and philosophical systems.
Sculptures, a sarcophagus, jewellery, furniture, ritualistic objects and tableware from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East and the European Dark Ages will be available for sale.
I am no expert in "ologies" and other things dealing with so-called spiritualistic revelations. No Man's Land
Even if one has left his native place, he continues to perform ritualistic practices at his present living place.
He's built on one aspect, kind of a ritualistic and performative quality in Duncan's work.
Gestures were confined to flat-palmed, ritualistic salutes. Times, Sunday Times
In India, the great 12 th-century poet-mystic Basava, who rebelled against ritualistic and superstitious temple worship and caste system, was a critical insider.
But the terms he uses (haunting, poltergeist, medium, seance) come from a spiritualistic perspective.
Strokes of the script gain a rhythmic and ritualistic hue as Raju creates divine and sacred forms with them.
a feudal or ritualistic society
The action of the bakery is interpolated with scenes of domestic discord: the declining relationship between Di and her husband, conducted over ritualistically awkward meals.
In this wonderful Cuban-Jamaican take on the genre, you will hear reggae, salsa, Brazilian ritualistic music, Klezmer-style sax, big band brass and little bits of cumbia and son rhythms too.
Ukrainians are ritualistic and religious in their funeral rites as well.
England: "Survivals of agricultural magic-making abound in our folk song even today though as the old meaning becomes unclear what was once ritualistic is likely to change into broad comedy, as with the randy animal-guiser song of the 'Derby Ram', concerning a beast of gigantic, not to say cosmic, attributes, a song that is the lyrical equivalent of those phallophoric dances that survive in farming ceremonies in Europe, intended to celebrate and stimulate the powers of reproduction in plants, animals and men, a song that nowadays survives mainly as a bawdy anthem for beery students or soldiers coming home on leave". Dalby Ram
There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
When this basic right of fatherhood is violated via the routine or ritualistic destruction or discarding of these vestitures, fathers then have the exclusive right to purchase a high-end electronic device such as a High definition plasma TV.
There was a time when throwing one on before you left the house was almost ritualistic. Times, Sunday Times
Reeling from disastrous results in the local and European elections, some elements in the party have resorted to a ritualistic blaming of the Progressive Democrats for their woes.
The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
Granny made it imperative, however, that I attend certain all - night ritualistic prayer meetings.
In the ritualistic piece that preludes actual narration, the Chakyar depicts how he has come a long way down to earth from heaven.
During the heyday of spiritualism, many writers speculated about spiritualistic phenomena, offering concepts of bodily forces as explanations.
It met twice a year to discuss and vote the departmental budget, which it did, often after ritualistic grumbling and symbolic resistance. The Government and Politics of France
They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives.
By guarding against these effects with flax oil your skin has a much better chance of surviving its annual ritualistic bake. Fats, Nutrition and Health
Designed for specific, often ritualistic uses in a traditional culture, these objects are prized as fine works of art by Western collectors, galleries and museums.
Also, many tribes have devised special ritualistic forms of languages that use rare sounds such as ingressives or clicks; the purpose is to make the ritual language as different as possible from other forms of speech.
The larl had wanted to die, she'd swear it, and now the beasts came forward daintily, almost ritualistically, to taste the brains, the young first and then the old. Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
Two days before, the Vienna actionist Hermann Nitsch had staged a performance that befouled the venue, as tended to happen at his notorious ritualistic affairs. Experiments With the Solstice in a SoHo Loft
Every detail of life here is ritualistic, spiritual, and imbued with meaning, even the empty rooms of Marie's house.
In India, the great 12 th-century poet-mystic Basava, who rebelled against ritualistic and superstitious temple worship and caste system, was a critical insider.
Any discussion of his spiritualistic bent must begin with Mrs Piper.
It met twice a year to discuss and vote the departmental budget, which it did, often after ritualistic grumbling and symbolic resistance. The Government and Politics of France
We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades.
I am no expert in "ologies" and other things dealing with so-called spiritualistic revelations. No Man's Land
I was still banging about the room, then, and I said that I had finished with psychical research, that never again would I make the least inquiry with regard to a possible future life, or any kind of spiritualistic phenomenon. The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
In short, I tend to think the modern empire is fueled by greed and power and fear and other vestigial ape-politics, rather than some dark forces of ritualistic evil.
On November 26, Noreum-Machi will stage a captivating virtuosic percussion performance known as Samulnori, a modernized stage adaptation of p'ungmul nori, which is a ritualistic celebration which originated from shamanism and animism and which is performed by rice farmers and professional musicians at harvest festivals. Latest News
The presence of cedar wood and snake remains in association with the pits again points to a ritual use, since both have clear archaeological and ethnohistoric ritualistic associations.
I do not myself contend that the proof is as overwhelming as in the case of spiritualistic phenomena.
I have been asked, possibly a thousand times, whether I looked upon that little book as in any sense the result of inspiration, whether what is called spiritualistic, or of any other sort. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
The friars seemed long since to have forgotten those noble aims that had meant so much to the founders and early workers of their orders, if indeed the great majority of those of the later day had ever realized the meaning of their office, for the Spanish writers of the time delight in characterizing them as the meanest of the Spanish peasantry, when not something worse, who had been "lassoed," taught a few ritualistic prayers, and shipped to the Philippines to be placed in isolated towns as lords and masters of the native population, with all the power and prestige over a docile people that the sacredness of their holy office gave them. The Social Cancer
On every hand we hear proclaimed a form of the doctrine of God's omnipresence (usually called the divine "immanence") which not only denies all distinction between the original Creation and the present perpetuation of the world, but a form which practically denies all second causes, and which cannot well be distinguished from pantheism, though it would be a spiritualistic or "idealistic" form of pantheism, or "monism," to use the favorite modern term. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
With their origins in guerrilla street performance and ritualistic collective improvisations staged at various Tokyo-area temples, the band's formative years seemed destined to remain in the shadows.
The dance, despite being ‘new age,’ was just vaguely traditional and almost ritualistic.
the ritualistic killing of a sheep
There are tears in his eyes, as though this is some sort of ritualistic experience for him.
The painstaking, even ritualistic nature of making big things in a small-bore way is not new to Webster, who once shaped 6 cubic yards of compost into a perfect cone with a paintbrush.
Burhan Ssebayigga of Makerere University’s department of religious studies said traditional beliefs, which are strong in Buganda, could be behind the current wave of ritualistic child murders. Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice
Some people commented about ritualistically writing, not printing their names up in the right corner of their paper.
The strength of practice nurses, says the writer, is that the care they offer patients is based on research rather than the ritualistic undertaking of tasks allocated by general practitioners.
But there have been concerns that the excessive consumption, ritualistic or not, of hallucinogenics like peyote might have some long-term health implications.
The City was enmeshed in ritualistic and religious concepts.
Immediately after urging me to write, he would begin talking rapidly on some spiritualistic subject.
I read a large amount of news online, but I still practice an almost ritualistic reading of the physical paper; so much so that I get antsy when some else reads my virginal paper before I get to it.
I also note, incidentally, that certain nomadic hunter-gatherers had ritualistic ways of handling serious conflicts between male members, meant to prevent them from going lethal and triggering a series of retaliatory killings between family members. Countersignalling in the Forest
The taurobolium, a disgusting shower-bath of lukewarm blood, had become a means of obtaining a new and eternal life; the ritualistic ablutions were no longer external and material acts, but were supposed to cleanse the soul of its impurities and to restore its original innocence; the sacred repasts The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
In traditional Aboriginal society, goods were shared, but in a highly structured and ritualistic way.
Part of the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), its nonritualistic, low-church worship resembles the UCC's. Where Will the Obamas Worship?
But we now arrive at a higher division of masonic symbolism, which, passing beyond these tangible symbols, brings us to those which are of a more abstruse nature, and which, as being developed in a ceremonial form, controlled and directed by the ritual of the order, may be designated as the _ritualistic symbolism_ of Freemasonry. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
I rather agree with Houdini who had done spiritualistic stunts during his early career.
Besides these formal organizations, Filipinos gather with others from their province for ritualistic and religious ceremonies and festivals.
The terms he uses (haunting, poltergeist, medium, seance) come from a spiritualistic perspective.
The inbreak of self-consciousness brought OUT the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
So, naturally, humanist funerals tend to be simple and unadorned, stripped of any ritualistic trappings.
The carefully planned ritualistic murder was considered unique by detectives. Times, Sunday Times
They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship.
The poems always are spoken of as 'sacerdotal', ritualistic, without the slightest attempt to see whether this be true of all or of some alone. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms.
The paper also dealt with certain so-called spiritualistic phenomena, which at the time Prof. Barrett was disposed to attribute to hallucination and “thought-transference.” Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
Former party official Matthew Taylor feels that conference has become ‘ritualistic and pointless’.
We would have a fire prepared of twigs, to represent the couple letting go of their pain and upset in a ritualistic way. Times, Sunday Times
We are still, therefore, exposed to the humiliation of hearing that spiritualistic quackery is freely practised in England. London: Saturday, September 16, 1865
Onset is insidious and course is slowly progressive. Psychiatric manifestations occur early and include social inappropriateness, disinhibition, delusions, ritualistic behavior, and mood disorders.
The Mass is very ritualistic, filled with scriptural and what we would call 'patristic' allusions. Westword | Complete Issue
They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship.
All these so-called spiritualistic manifestations were the result of over-taxed imagination. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel
It previously would take place with beautiful traditional ceremonies and secret ritualistic sacrifices to the ancestors.
When I was younger, despite I lacked all the ritualistic, religious stuff, I had still devoutly loved God.
This central ritualistic moment appealed to all the senses: bells were rung, incense burnt, and candles lit, so that the layperson would see the elevation of the body of Christ, would bow in reverence, and be appropriately prayerful.
Adding to the ritualistic atmosphere is the white gel that demonstrators daub on their cheeks and foreheads. Greek riots a ritual outlet for frustrated nation
spiritualistic" philosophy, which yields pure _Theism_. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
There were murmurs of the deaths being part of some ritualistic killing.
Refusing to believe in the interference, and even presence of the spirits, in the so-called spiritualistic phenomena, we nevertheless believe in the living spirit of man; we believe in the omnipotence of this spirit, and in its natural, though benumbed capacities. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
I had found most "spiritualistic" teaching to be purely Theistic. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
Catholicism is the most ritualistic of America's major religions.
It was only during the Gorbachev era that a pyramid of councils, or soviets, from the central authority to those at local village and neighborhood level, were given anything more than a symbolic or ritualistic role.
However I have a fresh entry just itching to be written about the Etruscan Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver created for the ritualistic practice called haruspicy in order to divine the future. Itching to crack the Piacenza Liver soon
I explained that I was on firm legal and moral ground by exercising my choice not to engage in coerced patriotism, that as a Quaker I didn't believe in ritualistic idol worship, and if the seniors in my homeroom hadn't already formulated an opinion that the morning pledge is a true affirmation of their patriotism or a mindless recitation of a ritual learned in kindergarten, seeing me participate in my own way wasn't going to irreparably harm them. June 2006
The carefully planned ritualistic murder was considered unique by detectives. Times, Sunday Times
Of the endless variety of ritualistic folk dances, many have magical significance and are connected with ancient cults.
A MAN was arrested yesterday over the ritualistic murder of a mother in her home eight years ago. The Sun
Another example is the ritualistic question asked at the end of job interviews, ‘Have you any questions?’
In his hands, pollen—painstakingly, ritualistically gathered bit by bit over months—becomes luminous art.
Each evening she bursts into her apartment with a ritualistic shout of "Honey I'm home!

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