Word: ritualization
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...Chemistry,” I dejectedly replied, knowing that, with one fell swoop, I had brought that flirting ritual to a halt...
...groups of boys and girls carrying Iranian flags, marched between the buses and chanted slogans against American power. Yet many of them seemed less interested in vehement denunciation of the U.S. than in taking a rare opportunity to glance furtively at the opposite sex. Nor was the annual political ritual's turnout any more "epic" than attendance at most state functions. (See pictures of the protests on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover...
According to Abraham C. Verghese, a Stanford professor of medicine who has authored books that stress the importance of bedside exams, the doctor-patient relationship is like a ritual: “one individual comes to another and bares their soul and their body,” he says...
Even with the advances in technology and imaging, Verghese, who was featured on one of Samuels’ radio shows, says he believes that the ritual still needs to be taught...
...marathon reading of your book - eight nights, seven venues, over the next two months. Is it even worth it these days for authors to do readings unless they're going to be unique or kooky in some way? Readings are usually ... deadly. It can be kind of a strange ritual. I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm permanently in a kind of moderately bad faith as a giver of readings, because I'm not a great fan of them. I don't think of that as a hot night out. So I usually try to make it something...