Word: ritualizes
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...Washington last week I attended another priestly ritual: the annual conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
Anyone who has seen a Merchant Ivory film knows that the British follow any flash of emotion with a long spasm of ritual. So it was that around Christmas, Prince Charles got down on one knee and proposed to Camilla Parker Bowles. She accepted. Then the Prince asked his mother Queen Elizabeth for official consent. The Queen, in accordance with the centuries-old Royal Marriages Act, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair for the government's approval. The PM consulted with the attorney general. Meanwhile, the Church of England chewed over the religious significance of a middle-aged, divorced prince trading...
...Israeli prime minister is more than happy to trade calm in exchange for calm, while always maintaining Washington?s backing for his security demands and ensuring that he is not pushed onto any political track that leads to a destination with which he?d not be comfortable. While making ritual deference to the ?roadmap? - a document with which Sharon has never fully supported - the Israeli leader emphasizes that its first phase requires Abbas to begin disarming and dismantling the operational structures of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigade. The Palestinians will seek to delay any such actions...
...highlights A clan of Mongolian nomads uses a musical ritual to get a mother camel to nurse the newborn she had previously rejected, a rare white calf. The DVD extras are skimpy, but you'll learn lots about the life nomadic...
...group’s favorite annual events is the Hunt, a fall fete where members take off their clothes, paint themselves blue and chase down a (consenting) freshman—known as the “stag”—in a parody of a Celtic hunting ritual...