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Example sentences for: rites

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But now they seem "bent upon repeating the cruel and monotonous rites of the religion of totalitarianism."
But some would say that, spurred by their own vanity and their clients' impressionability, they would have reached the pinnacles of pomposity without having to resort to these ancient rites.
At the New York performance, the Israeli singer Esti Kenan Ofri spent most of the time shrouded in drapery and darkness at the foot of the podium, slowly rising and writhing only for the keening solo that ends the piece, a recitative redolent of Middle Eastern rites.
Archaeologists, still unsure of what was involved, suggest that the gorgeously painted scenes of dancing satyrs, flagellation, and a woman kneeling before a sacred phallus indicate rites that the town preferred to keep at a decorous distance, in this splendid suburban villa, most likely the home of a priestess.
The Temple of Heaven (Tiantan), built under Ming Emperor Yongle in 1420 as a site for sacred rites, is located directly south of the Forbidden City.