Word: ritualizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CHARGED. CHRISTINE NEAL, 49, and MARCY SPIWAK, 49, parents of students at Illinois' Glenbrook North High, the school attended by senior girls who earlier this month hazed juniors in an ugly ritual in which students were splattered with feces, pig intestines and mud; with delivering beer to a minor and allowing underage drinking at her home, respectively; following misdemeanor battery charges against 15 students; in Skokie, Ill. Neal, who has not commented, and Spiwak, who denied knowing about drinking in her home, face a maximum of a year in jail...
...tells of an 11-year-old girl whose mother sends her out with a short haircut and long robes to find work as a "boy" and support the family. It's a reckless ruse, one with potentially fatal consequences. The girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, and attends instruction by a mullah in the proper washing of the male genitals. Everyone notices that this "boy" is different?"like a nymph," the mullah says. Her deceit is uncovered by her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...
...jumping up and down on an abandoned trailer in Morocco is what it takes for Blur front man Damon Albarn to find the right sound - so be it. One man's ranting antic is another's creative ritual, and this one turns up as the rhythmic squeaking on the track Gene by Gene from the band's just-released seventh album, Think Tank. But it's also understandable that after 14 years, guitarist Graham Coxon finally decided he'd had enough of Albarn's calisthenics, and left the band in September last year, soon after work on the record began...
Dartboard thinks that interhouse dining restrictions are unjust. And from the nightly ritual of students clamoring to eat in Adams House Country Club, it’s clear that the rest of the barbarians agree...
...other hand, the use of human sacrifice as a mask for the arguably ritual murders of Richard doesn’t translate as smoothly as the play would have us believe. The religious ceremonies that were historically performed on prisoners of war don’t make much sense when used as a tool against nobility, no matter how striking they appear as a spectacle...