Word: ritually
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Which makes the listener wonder why they have included the relatively flimsy "Girl Afraid" in the second album. The song's stock theme of boy-girl misunderstandings detracts from the mood of raw bleakness induced by songs like "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." Furthermore, the song shifts the album's focus sharply away from the peculiarities of Morissey's self absorbed first person to random generality in a disconcerting fashion...
...share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...exhibit seeks to generate positive feelings about sexuality and condoms by treating them almost as ritual objects. And Norberg says she hopes to change the cultural association of condoms by presenting them in a unusual and provocative way, through...
Norberg's first pieces were composed of beads and feather, a reflection of her association of condoms with ritual and religious tradition...
...soul has been crushed. He will hide it behind his patrician grace in his season of defeat. Rejected by the American people, a life's ambition cut short, a political finale cast in defeat -- a heavy burden even for a man of Bush's discipline. Yet this cruel ritual is the heart of democracy...