Joseph Wood Krutch

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

American Environmentalist

Nancy Gibbs

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

American Journalist

Arca

Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.

Venezuelan Musician

Tony Harrison

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

English Poet

David Cameron

As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.

British Politician

Hayley Atwell

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

English Actress

Franz Boas

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

American Scientist

Dalai Lama

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

Tibetan Leader

J. L. Austin

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

English Philosopher

Carey Price

I think a letter is more ceremonial than anything. Personally, I think it's just a reason to go talk to the referee.

Used when an event or outfit holds significant cultural relevance, often linked to history.

Cultural Importance

Implies a higher level of formality and elegance, usually for important figures or occasions.

Distinct Elegance

Indicates that something is not for casual or daily purposes, but for special events.

Not Everyday Use

Stresses that the role or object has more symbolic value than practical functionality.

Symbolic Meaning

Highlights the continuity of traditions, even if they don't have a current practical purpose.

Maintaining Tradition

Refers to a particular sequence of actions that are followed during formal occasions.

Set of Actions

Describes the organized framework of an event, which gives it a formal and respectful ambiance.

Events Structure

Often involves practices that have been passed down through generations in a culture or family.

Traditional Practices

 the taste of the blood through his heart. We got there and after the hunt they cut the heart out and we all drank the, the blood from the heart and.. why did we do that? Well, it's a ceremonial, ceremonial thing. The buffalo represents strength and courage

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 with custom fittings, carved and gilded ornamentation, and seasonal fabrics, like silk and velvet. However, the majority of gondolas seen today are black because in 1562, Venetian authorities decreed that all but ceremonial gondolas be painted black

Corruption, wealth and...

 pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system

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 lighting heating cooking even entertainment they're all gone we might have an occasional symbolic or ceremonial or token flame but otherwise it's gone and yet this space continues it's always the

How fire shapes...

 inserted into the ceremonial gloves one by one each young man steps up to the sacred pole and submits his hands to the swarm their agony is unmistakable to help distract them the medicine man

Could You Pass the...

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 their indigenous homelands and around the world while they participate in modern global life they continue to follow agricultural and ceremonial practices of their ancestors

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 Every parent in this audience knows the joy and excitement of picking a new baby's name. And I was excited and thrilled to help my mom in that special ceremonial moment.

A smarter, more precise...

 The hunter pays tribute to his quarry's courage and strength with ceremonial gestures that ensure that its spirit returns to the desert sands from which it came.

The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...

 a long and successful life with darkness near it's time to dance beside the ceremonial fire - inna and the other

Ceremonial