Word: ritually
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...book covers one liturgical year. What preoccupies the author is the role of ritual -- the dailiness of religion -- in a world that has largely lost faith. The Kreers are not strong enough characters to sustain that ambitious theme, but there are compensations. Wilson has a lethal grasp of parish politics. He watches gleefully at the plotting of the low-church Spittles, who had poisoned Kreer's mother's mind against him. Seizing the moment, his ecclesiastical superiors finish Kreer...
Patients' stories have led "clinics to buy theidea that America is threatened by widespread,ritual abuse of children," Mitchell said...
...marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending on them a worldly and eccentric woman -- Auntie Mame with a foreign accent -- eager to disrupt the ritual politesse of English suburban life...
Perry and Gerrard decided to call their duo Dead Can Dance when they saw a ritual mask from New Guinea. Says Perry: "The mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...
...annual ritual has nothing to do with grading students on their performance during the semester--there's already time enough for that. Instead, this is the week at the end of each semester when students trudge from class to class, filling out those pink bubble sheets full of questions about courses, professors and teaching fellows. The resulting CUE Guide is used by unsuspecting first-years and by even more experienced upperclass students in the pursuit of the "right" classes to make a great semester...