Word: ritualization
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...from trying to make Christie Whitman look bad, these ritual undercuttings - on CO2 emissions in March and now ANWR - are part of an exquisitely orchestrated plot to make Whitman, whose environmental record as New Jersey governor was far from mint green, into the Sierra Club's Woman of the Year...
Here's another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...
...heritage before realizing the juxtaposition between subject matter and color. In the “Memories and Dreams” catalogue, Weil constantly asserts his “atheistic philosophy,” where he distinctly separates culture from religion and states that he has no interest in religious ritual or faith...
...students, this is a victory tour,” McGrath-Lewis said. “It’s now sort of a ritual event and an important confirmation for students because most people who come to the program do in fact enroll...
...discipline to rise in the morning and write for several hours before the sun crept toward the yardarm and it was time to drink again. The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, a talented fanatic, would attend dinner parties until midnight, then go home and write until dawn. He died by ritual suicide in the midst of leading his private militia in a notably screwball coup attempt at a Japanese army headquarters...