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    ritual


    1. Travis may have been the best tattoo artist in Ireland, if not all of Western Europe, but he didn't come close to the skill of this man, at least not when it came to ritual Sak Yant; sacred skin art, Thai style


    2. Ajarn was one of the best there was and while he handled his mai sak and khem sak, the bamboo and metal ritual tattoo sticks, as though he were about to commit murder with them, the designs were as perfect and fine as medieval calligraphy


    3. Only that Travis was his close friend and colleague, because his need was so great and out of respect for Travis’ skill as an artist would he perform this ritual


    4. Her mother had performed the same ritual when


    5. Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party


    6. I hoarded my daily ration of cigarettes, denying myself the luxury of nicotine relief for hours on end, until, like a binge drinker I felt compelled to indulge in some weird chain-smoking ritual, gorging on tar and smoke until I was physically sick


    7. I nodded but then realised that it was just a ritual response


    8. Her mother had performed the same ritual when coming of age, although for her it seemed the bitter pleasure of awakening touched her mind


    9. It’s a ritual, the milk and the war paint and the job


    10. with the ritual inhabitants

    11. There is a ritual that each dragon must follow


    12. The crew had weighed anchor, made the customary ritual sacrifice having prayed to the gods for help and guidance


    13. I can call upon her with tried and tested ritual


    14. Then we turned out of the narrow alleyway into the square where, to my complete amazement, I saw it absolutely crammed with hundreds of pilgrims who had flocked there for the next part of the festival, all craning and straining to see what they could of the annual procession and the ritual on the plateia


    15. What makes your ritual chamber? Know that the quickest


    16. If the ritual embarrasses it's owner, or is not carefully planned and


    17. The Emotion Ritual


    18. will be sound-proofed! The benefit is seen of the ritual when full release


    19. Atums as They Relate to Ritual:


    20. He tells a story about an ancient Egyptian ritual, and he stirs the water with his bare hand

    21. stop and perform a strange ritual


    22. Tom could see that Bram was interested in this ritual as well,


    23. After twenty years of evolution in club land white stilettos and plastic handbags may have given way to belly button piercings and porthole dresses, but the ritual stand-off between groups of rhythmic girls and leery boys is alive and well


    24. They had all stood awkwardly for several moments after the body had been laid in the shallow grave, an atmosphere of expectancy in the air … shouldn’t someone be saying something ritual or meaningful?


    25. He probably thought scientific procedure was all just ritual


    26. So he didn’t bother with a few, like the ritual of sterilization of equipment


    27. The ritual was completed in the time it took most women just to do their


    28. and white newspaper that accompanied him daily to his morning ritual


    29. weather into a ritual of semi-daily rain showers and a constant climb in


    30. witchcraft in Scripture because witchcraft is ritual without a

    31. For another two days, this evening ritual was repeated


    32. In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms


    33. The process had become a ritual


    34. He went thru the ritual


    35. How anyone could believe that having intercourse could be a religious act was beyond him, but at least it was fun; a ritual he hardly ever missed


    36. This practice places emphasis on both metaphysical knowledge and ritual


    37. Zen (Zen in Japan, Ch’an in China) is another branch of Buddhism that eschews theory and ritual, and holds to the original teaching of the Buddha


    38. This ritual had


    39. I have no remorse to be a lesser part in this Pagan ritual


    40. And well, it had been nearly a week since I had made it a daily therapeutic ritual of hiking up to Grandma and Grandpa’s to walk the playground of my youth and visit with those ornery old people

    41. The ritual had the feel of an ancient death ceremony done by a priest to send her spirit off to some hypothetical afterworld


    42. Supposed accidents and sicknesses could be proven ritual murders of


    43. Mistaken to be the effect of Crowleys ritual incantation, the banishment of the horrid creature came


    44. Collecting what remained of the ketchup and milk from his bowl with a slice of cake, Uncle Hobart completed his breakfast ritual by swirling his false teeth in his tea to clean them


    45. They had been there many times before gathered for the same ritual


    46. The men of the tribe chanted and gave the high priest the rhythm he needed to perform the ritual


    47. “And in the beginning the old man of the mountain said, ‘let there be beer,’” he declaimed majestically, and poured a small libation upon the waters, a small but important ritual he hadn’t enacted in far too many moons


    48. The place was perhaps a tad more deserted than usual this morning, a few bleary-eyed coffee-drinkers in the food court and several other ritual strollers attested to the normality of the day


    49. So it came to pass, the birth of an enduring ritual


    50. He felt a knot in his stomach at the thought of her giving up, burying him in that little ritual they buried their dead kinsfolk with no body to say her farewells too














































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    Synonyms for "ritual"

    ritual rite formal

    "ritual" definitions

    any customary observance or practice


    the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies


    stereotyped behavior


    of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals


    of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals