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Ceremony in sentence

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There's really no ceremony, rituals, or rites.
It was like watching a graduation ceremony.
We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss.
It's raku, which is a kind of pottery that began in Japan centuries ago as a way of making bowls for the Japanese tea ceremony.
In our tradition, there is a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become women, and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.
I told my father, "I will only go through this ceremony if you let me go back to school."
The reason why, if I ran away, my father will have a stigma, people will be calling him the father of that girl who didn't go through the ceremony.
"Well," he said, "okay, you'll go to school after the ceremony."
The ceremony happened.
It's a ceremony.
And the day before the actual ceremony happens, we were dancing, having excitement, and through all the night we did not sleep.
I learned that that ceremony that I went through when I was 13 years old, it was called female genital mutilation.
So I traveled to Boston, to Cambridge, and I went to this wonderful Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held at Harvard University, and this ceremony is a very nice experience.
And I was in a village where there was an initiation ceremony for the young men, a rite of passage.
And as I sat in this temple square under this gigantic beringin banyan tree, in the dark, there was no electricity, just the full moon, down in this empty square, and I heard the most beautiful sounds, like a Charles Ives concert as I listened to the gamelan music from all the different villagers that came for this once-every-five-years ceremony.
In fact, a member of society is only truly dead when the extended family can agree upon and marshal the resources necessary to hold a funeral ceremony that is considered appropriate in terms of resources for the status of the deceased.
And this ceremony has to take place in front of the eyes of the whole community with everyone's participation.
Until the funeral ceremony, which can be held years after a person's physical death, the deceased is referred to as "to makala," a sick person, or "to mama," a person who is asleep, and they continue to be a member of the household.
And here you can see these wooden effigies of the ancestors, so these are people who have already been buried, already had a funeral ceremony.
So the funeral ceremony itself embodies this relational perspective on death.
And when she dies, they have a ceremony where they break this stack called the zalanga and her soul goes off to eternity.
On the human side, Walter Starck, an oceanographer, has been painting his wetsuit since the 1970s, and anthropologically, Pacific island tribes painted themselves in bands in a sea snake ceremony to ward off the shark god.
One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, called me and said that I had been selected to be one of the flag-bearers.
Well, I'm now a trustee of the university, and at my installation ceremony I said, "I'm the guy who came from the neighborhood who got into the place on probation.
And like a fool, I didn't go to the ceremony because I didn't think we were going to win.
In 1991, I, together with bunch of other people, started the Ig Nobel prize ceremony.
In fact, the winners have to pay their own way to come to the Ig Nobel ceremony, which most of them do.
The other thing you win is an invitation to come to the ceremony, which happens at Harvard University.
That's the heart of the ceremony.
Dr. Barss came to the ceremony and explained that as a young doctor, he wanted to see the world.
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