Word: ritualizes
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...Investing in a ritual of traveling together each year is a major phenomenon with young people today," says Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (Bloomsbury; 272 pages). "These vacations create a kind of group lore and help define what those friendships are about." Watters believes that friend trips strengthen bonds, particularly when members are at different stages in their personal lives. Watters, who is 39 and recently married with a newborn, takes two annual trips with friends in their 30s and early 40s. "The group is shifting right now from single to married...
...third day of a trip that was supposed to last two days, the Somalis feel the vehicle slowing down, and then see smoke pouring from under the hood. The Sudanese smugglers stop and splash water onto the engine and the truck coughs back to life. The frightening ritual bath is repeated over the next few days. But when the truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means...
...most of his movie sets, however, Tsang is already the headman. During filming for Crazy Girls Infernal Affairs, a parody of the hit trilogy, Tsang stands in front of a Buddhist temple, shouting out an elaborate initiation ritual to a line of young extras. After the first take, he orders the extras to remove their shirts, telling them to flex their fake tattoos for the camera. The movie's director, Jing Wong (God of Gamblers, Royal Tramp), doesn't seem to mind Tsang taking control?in fact, it's part of the reason Wong cast him. "Eric's very creative...
Similarly, the importance of ceremonial pipe-smoking as a major diplomatic ritual is clearly discernible from the prominent, central placement of a large pipe crested with feathers and red cloth...
Whereas she originally thought Yeats’ preoccupation with ritual and superstition a bit “weird,” Foster convinced her that his behavior was a reaction to the void that the Anglo-Irish felt in the face of the superstitions and beliefs held by the Catholic majority...