Word: ritualization
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...Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose rising popularity was based in part on his hard line on immigration and tough stand against troublesome youths from...
...regardless the performance of the matrimonial act had certainly come to an end—but their mutual admissions had trapped the Viscount and Viscountess in a sort of agonizing stasis. Under such circumstances, there could be few hours in life more painful than those dedicated to the dark ritual of afternoon tea.They only wanted for something—someone, perhaps—to tip the balance.“What will there be to see on the north side?” Frederick replied. “Just a square of tilled soil in which nothing can grow...
...India by British growers, who quickly undercut their Chinese competitors on price. Like cricket (which the English introduced to India) and polo (though its origins are Persian, the modern game began in northeast India and was later encoded and spread by the British), drinking tea is a joyous ritual that binds Delhi and Doncaster. (Polo is a rich man's sport, of course, but class and caste have long mattered in both countries...
...Election Day. But they also exist for the patronage and other help that ward leaders and committee persons can offer their people. Like all dreamers, Grandpop was a walker of the neighborhood. He took us on evening walks through Hunting Park, his Phillies cigar a regular part of the ritual. On the way home, he'd stop at the corner next to the subway stop, get the bulldog edition of the Inquirer and chat with the guy selling the papers. That corner, one of my brothers recalled, was Grandpop's office...
...Every encounter between black and white was a ritual in subordination,” Ganz, who is now a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, said of the 1960s. “That’s gone. Now, of course, the political inequality is a whole lot different than...