Its scenic austerity, symbolic gestures and ritualized drama captivated artists.
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Many greats made a habit of conversing in large, ritualized groups.
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It wasn't as ritualized and formalized as sometimes Seders can be.
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Cable news panels are ritualized cage matches — the WWE in loafers.
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The exhibition has been a revelation for Russians accustomed to ritualized anniversaries.
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Despite its obvious perversity, the play has been ritualized to the point of normalcy.
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Personally, I have missed this sort of formal, ritualized communication from our top leader.
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Every summer, ritualized marches and bonfires inflame tensions, setting off riots and sectarian violence.
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The event begins, like so many ritualized psychedelic experiences do, with a check in.
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If you really think about it, NASA is just a large, ritualized failure-analysis organization.
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As the months went on, eating became an even more ritualized and often grotesque affair.
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COMMENTARY The strikes on Syria "were little more than highly ritualized theater," writes Peter Apps.
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It felt ritualized, this act of behaving in public as if something had never happened.
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In hindsight, it was a practice I would now compare with a ritualized, sexualized violence.
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It's not that this behavior is being normalized as much as it is becoming ritualized.
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However, pre-Columbian Mexicans also celebrated aspects of ritualized violence and were known to sacrifice animals.
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I'm exasperated, even exhausted with what has become a kind of ritualized response to these killings.
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As horrifying as they are, mass shootings in America have become commonplace enough to be ritualized.
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It's only in the past decade, Thorne believes, that we've seen holiday porn regularized and ritualized.
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"It might have been more ritualized actions than really chaotic shows of dominance," said Dr. Klinkhamer.
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Kandi bracelets are exchanged between people who have developed a mutual connection, following a ritualized handshake.
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The main themes of The Handmaid's Tale are disturbing: forced servitude, ritualized sexual assault, and indiscriminate murder.
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The recent session — the group sings most Tuesdays all year long — was a vibrant, highly ritualized affair.
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Our redemption can never be found among those crowds who chant in ritualized and visceral political chorus.
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"It's a way of creating an armature for ritualized activity, where we overcome our differences," he said.
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The tradition held sway on these shores for generations, a ritualized affair that underscored hierarchies and borders.
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Axelrod reports that soldiers would engage in ritualized gunfire, shooting every day at exactly the same targets.
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Standard fangs go for $150, a price that includes a pendant, a book and a ritualized renaming ceremony.
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According to Chaudhry, followers of non-Abrahamic traditions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, participate in forms of ritualized fasting.
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Instead, he acts like she is a sentient sex doll he can force into his nearly ritualized bedroom play.
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Political disagreement, instead of being ritualized and weaponized, could become the basis for more authentic engagement with fellow Americans.
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Painting pictures wasn't enough, either: Sacks needed to invent a ritualized form of art-making—creating, burying, burning, uncovering.
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Although the drinking vessels exemplify a long tradition of ritualized drinking, they also reveal its role in religious ritual.
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Stefano GhirlandaProfessor, Psychology, Brooklyn CollegeCompetition is a ritualized form of aggression, and both aggression and ritualization are common among animals.
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There's a "swoosh" every time a business card comes out because there is this element of classic masculine ritualized aggression.
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This gesture was, among other things, a ritualized way of letting others into his life while empowering them to create.
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To this point, the menu had faithfully followed kaiseki's ritualized sequence of courses and its stopwatch-precise attention to seasonality.
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Also from Chicago is new media performance artist Wanbli Gamache, whose ritualized performances deal with authorship, intimacy, and erotic imagery.
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But what happens at Jezebels is a form of ritualized rape that's just as harrowing as what the handmaids experience.
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I remember thousands of men and women together in collective, ritualized mourning in the courtyard of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's shrine.
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The farcical "Fifty Shades of Grey" depended on the ritualized stupidity of soft-core porn, crossed with romance-fiction fantasy.
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As a result, the blue-footed bird lives a proud and public life, on display in its highly ritualized courtship.
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" Several of the young men Flood interviewed in depth for the study had engaged in what Flood calls "ritualized sexual humiliation.
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He wanted his readers (young and old) to embrace their imaginations, whether it took them to sky kangas or ritualized spankings.
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Furtney was also convicted of one count each of sexual child abuse of a child, ritualized abuse, and felony domestic violence.
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NOAH ROTHMAN, COMMENTARY: Yes, they have become so common at this point, so tragically common, that our response is almost ritualized.
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"It has become less ritualized," Linda Jacobs, a Manhattan psychoanalyst and professor, told me from her summer home in Wellfleet, Mass.
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The procession was of course an expression of culture and community, but it was also a ritualized form of showing off.
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Music has been central to the ritualized sexuality of fertility, circumcision, puberty and wedding ceremonies cross-culturally and from time immemorial.
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Mostly ranchers and farmers, the Wayuu conduct trade and manage potential conflict through a system based on ritualized exchange and communication.
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In the hundreds of years since Rumi's death in 1273, the sema has been refined and ritualized by his family and followers.
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Back in town, he staged sumptuous multiday tournaments, jousting with local noblemen and foreign champions in ritualized, but still dangerous, mock combat.
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Here's a snippet of the highly ritualized events that will occur after Queen Elizabeth, who is 91 years old now, passes on.
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Its defeat, then, gave double the satisfaction: the triumph of the underdog combined with the rubber-necking spectacle of a ritualized humiliation.
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By the reign of Marie Antoinette and her husband Louis XVI, fashion was amongst the most ritualized aspects of life at court.
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I eat, with the ritualized looking and touching, trying to not think about how my soup kind of looks like throw-up.
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In Ireland, St. Stephen's Day brings the appearance of the Wren Boys — costumed revelers engaged in a ritualized hunting of a wren.
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The ritualized humiliation and torture session of Kavanaugh on national television was unfortunate to Democrats only in that it ultimately was unsuccessful.
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Cameron Jamie's three short films currently on view at Gladstone Gallery blur the boundary between documentation of ritualized performances and something more sinister.
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With his private ways and ritualized habits, one summer obsessed with a leather wallet some boyfriend of his mother's must have given him.
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Shareholder meetings may seem like highly ritualized events that only pretend to offer meaningful interactions between companies and the investors who own them.
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The entire film feels like a slow descent into frenzied, ritualized madness — you don't realize what's happening until it's too late to stop it.
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Her ritualized breathing and cries of anguish are almost synchronized with the score, an interplay that's genuinely unsettling leading up to a dramatic finish.
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As Japanese nuptials for a royal family member are highly ritualized, the couple will likely take some time before their wedding, the AP reported.
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But what also keeps us watching is that these are ritualized occasions for citizens of left and right to righteously reinforce previously held beliefs.
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American capital punishment is ritualized, with a carefully orchestrated set of appeals that often culminates in a last-minute denial from the Supreme Court.
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Not for you, all this feasting in the wake of Lent, this ritualized eating of animals, this painting of eggs, this celebration of candy?
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He called his fang company Sabretooth and treated each new customer as a member of his own vampire clan with ritualized, if kitschy, ceremonies.
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In many European towns and cities, including this one, Armistice Day will bring concerts and parades, but here in Ypres, remembrance is ritualized, steadfast.
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At the congressional luncheon, Mr. Trump basked in the ritualized speeches and formalized bonhomie of the city he had pilloried in his inaugural address.
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In Yom Kippur, for example, there is a ritualized approach that's designed to create a structure designed to make reconciliation more likely than not.
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They don't turn quixotic and mix themselves up with their various avatars, or confuse the ritualized drama of social media with mortal conflicts on battlefields.
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The highly ritualized killings have galvanized international opposition to ISIS, but may also have helped attract a wave of foreign recruits to the group's cause.
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She is most emphatic and prescriptive in her examination of "hook-up culture," the ritualized patterns of casual sex that are common among young people.
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But while beautifully made, I don't think of the "The Handmaid's Tale" as deeply pleasurable -- a show about ritualized rape is often tortuous to watch.
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For decades, lynching took the form of ritualized killings performed by white supremacists to uphold their racial purity and ensure their continued political and economic domination.
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And if you can find balance in this strange cocktail of Stockholm syndrome and ritualized purposefulness, you'll probably be OK. "I love it here," says Sara.
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What sparked my own interest in the case was that a familiar phenomenon—the objectification of young women—was, at St. Paul's, said to be ritualized.
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Those rules (and the ritualized gravity that comes with them) trickle all the way down to Jake Browne's role as the newspaper's first professional marijuana critic.
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I refer to those ritualized entertainments that air and arrange our nastiest fears, while scrupulously honoring quaint and orderly narrative traditions, soothing even as they frighten.
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It opens with a dark, spotlit gallery featuring exquisite lacquered masks, of the sort used in Japan's highly ritualized Noh theater, attached to charred tree trunks.
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Because the fighting is so ritualized, predictable and low-profile, civilian life is returning near the front lines, where war and peace coexist bizarrely and uneasily.
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The protocol itself draws heavily from Japanese Zen Buddhist philosophy and the structure of Japanese tea ceremonies, placing special emphasis on spatial emptiness and ritualized behavior.
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Is life in a world where death is accepted, welcomed, even ritualized better than in our own, where it is nasty and brutish and unnaturally extended?
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He hates being touched, is bewildered by the common clichés of small talk and is sent into cataclysmic tantrums by any violation of his rigidly ritualized world.
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Absent any principled or consistent U.S. approach, individual countries can be assured that there will be limited and short-term impacts of any ritualized public hand-wringing.
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Concerns about cost and the environment, as well as consumers' preference for "less ritualized" funeral practices, are all factors in the increase in cremations, the association found.
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Place 32 In this small city in Belgium, the remembrance of World War I — and all the soldiers who lost their lives there — is ritualized and steadfast.
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"Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony," an installation of clunky constructions relating to the ancient Japanese tradition of chanoyu, the ritualized preparation and serving of tea, is the first.
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In "Massage the History," Jamie uses as his source material videos he found online of African American teenagers performing a ritualized sex-dance performance in their living rooms.
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We do, however, know that Kavanaugh and his classmates were part of a culture in which male identity and ritualized exertions of sexual power went hand in hand.
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And as they had children, they expanded their rites to include ritualized bedtimes, whispered parental praise, an after-dinner ceremony of walking through the house with closed eyes.
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What really broadcast his power were public spectacles of chivalric glory, in which he jousted with local noblemen and foreign champions in ritualized, but still dangerous, mock combat.
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But her acknowledgment, in the essay, of a "taste for ritualized, abstract interpersonal aggression" provides a better insight into her habits of mind than any I could manufacture.
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"Pink Flamingos" has not been tamed by time; if anything, it might be even more shocking now, removed from its immediate post-60s context of ritualized taboo breaking.
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In a country where apologies are highly ritualized, even his bow — briefer and shallower than those of most executives seeking the public's forgiveness — became a target of criticism.
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These celebrated, beloved residents of the archipelago perform a highly ritualized courtship display, complete with an elaborate dance that shows off the relative blue-ness of their feet.
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And, of course, forgiveness and repentance often have quite specific, ritualized forms within theological contexts: confession in a Catholic Church, say, or Yom Kippur in the Jewish tradition.
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As newlyweds, Jacob and Julia created a "religion for two": ritualized kisses and sunset walks, a policy of radical and complete honesty, Shabbat readings of love letters and poetry.
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From the ritualized dignity of the State of the Union address to the weird drama of Devin Nunes's secret memo, we had a lot of intimations of great things.
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I now take acid or psilocybin every month, or five to six weeks, in a ritualized manner, or whenever I feel my psyche slipping back into that negative mindset.
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Things that take us multiple taps and keyboard inputs even today might be reduced to a single ritualized gesture, or to miming what we want before an intelligent camera.
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But the World Cup is unique in having so many participants from so many countries all appearing in the same forum, with the same ritualized regularity, match after match.
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Drinking in Japan is a crucial social and professional lubricant in a country where ritualized courtesies can easily harden into walls, and Bob, a teetotaler in college, had successfully adapted.
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She drank tequila the first time she had a threesome with two guys and since then it's become a sort of ritualized, perhaps Pavlovian prelude to varsity-level envelope pushing.
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He said the mutilations indicated a society of "furious ritualized warriors", while the silos were stored within a defence wall that pointed towards "a troubled time, a period of insecurity".
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The production is punctuated by wordless interludes in which the four performers go through ritualized movements that suggest a classic nuclear family working together and breaking apart, comforting and confronting.
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Juul gave her everything she enjoyed about cigarettes — the nicotine jolt as well as something ritualized to do with her hands — but without the stink, the stigma and the carcinogens.
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But where Cena bounces off the ropes and flows right into his various ritualized limb-wavings before dropping, 2 Hotty stops dead after doing the actual worm portion of the worm.
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To an extent, the weekend Syria strikes were little more than highly ritualized theater, a largely bloodless exercise in the United States enforcing red lines and standing up to Russian intimidation.
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As long as your intention is clear, that's what matters: "Ritualized self-care is like a secret little tool we always have, even when everything else feels stripped away," she explains.
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According to Mr. Wicker and Mr. Leitsch, their battle to be served was a subset of a larger issue: the ritualized police entrapment of gay men for intent to have sex.
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The movie, as we know, spawned an audience-participation phenomenon — people shouting ritualized lines in anticipation of the actors' dialogue, covering up with newspaper during the rainstorm scene and so on.
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Until now, that is: "Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony," an installation of clunky constructions relating to the ancient Japanese tradition of chanoyu, the ritualized preparation and serving of tea, is the first.
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Paris - Archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered the remains of victims from a 6,000-year-old massacre in Alsace in eastern France that was likely carried out by "furious ritualized warriors".
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I love Julia Moskin's recipe for Texas-style chili, indeed all chilis, a dish that is as delicious an accompaniment to prose and music as it is to ritualized television violence.
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But only in The Feral Detective is there a ritualized hand-to-hand combat to the death in a desert arena, followed by a dinner party at a hipper-than-thou resort.
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It's a nexus of my queerness; at a nexus of my art practice; at a nexus of all of these things that intersect with each other into this structured and ritualized space.
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"Harmony is very important, and there's this idea of collective action over individual action, so anything that allows people to confront things in a ritualized way softens that confrontation," Professor Osterhoudt said.
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Everywhere, dozens of times a day, the large, handsome seabirds are making their highly ritualized courtship display — one reason the boobies are among the most celebrated and beloved residents of this archipelago.
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He would seem to have adopted a secular understanding of art, that is, a capacity to assign value to paintings independent of their referential claims […] or their contribution to ritualized communications with divinity.
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As the curators explained the ritualized ways knights would suit up in armor, Mr. Brathwaite said he saw a parallel in the way that break dancers prepare dance battles, practice sessions called labbing.
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"One detaches oneself," Offred intones in a calm voice-over, but the way Emily flinches and winces and snaps her eyes shut reveals that such detachment from one's own ritualized rape is impossible.
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A General Assembly resolution condemning the embargo, proposed every year since 1991, had become something of a ritualized event at the United Nations, used by Cuba and many others to castigate the United States.
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The streets of Washington, D.C., where "The Purge: Election Year" takes place, are stages for infernal scenes of ritualized chaos, as tourists and teenagers dress to kill in patriotic costumes and rave-appropriate garb.
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People sometimes turn to rituals—including cleaning—to reduce stress stemming from other parts of their lives, says Martin Lang, an evolutionary anthropologist at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic who studies ritualized behavior.
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But the abstention is followed by a ritualized and often communal meal — there is an end to hunger and it is shared — which creates a deeper bond with the experience, and the bigger picture.
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By looking at the development of Chinese television dating shows, we can see how love and marriage changed from a ritualized system mired in the past to the liberated, Western-style version we see today.
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The McMartin pre-school building was razed in 1990, but by then Satanic Panic was in full swing across the US. It even spread to Britain, where even more allegations of ritualized sex abuse occurred.
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A small group of Palestinian women sat chanting outside the ancient Damascus Gate and youths who in other cities might be described as feral baited police, in an almost ritualized ebb and flow of bravado.
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After years of watching her mother submit to supervised, ritualized rape by a fellow slave — it's her job to breed boys for future sale — 15-year-old Naomi skewers her master with a fire poker.
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Tom is gay, and his simmering affair with the groundskeeper, Liam, conducted in excruciating secrecy away from the macho banter and ritualized bonding of his teammates, edges him even further from a sense of belonging.
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Prop styling by Victoria Petro-Conroy IN 1906, THE YOKOHAMA-BORN scholar Okakura Kakuzo published "The Book of Tea," a brief tract for Western readers on chanoyu, the centuries-old, highly ritualized Japanese tea ceremony.
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In the most famous example, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of deceased kin.
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They're about as good as you'd expect from a pair—or group—of grown men who are paid fantastical amounts of money and reverence to engage in ritualized low (or no) contact play for a living.
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Rituals reorganize, affirm, and codify the emotional detritus that accumulates in adult life: so much of self-help and self-care is ritual, and so much of our own undoing of the self is also ritualized.
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We're doing it again now, along with another near-ritualized display: Every time a mass shooting occurs, conservatives go on TV to offer thoughts and prayers and to suggest—politely—that you just can't fix crazy.
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Mixing that with the ritualized nature of funerals, which is less prominent now than it was, say, 50 years ago, it's understandable why technology has been so slow to revamp the business and process of death.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's top court on Tuesday said halal slaughter is only allowed in licensed slaughterhouses, ruling that a Belgian ban on the ritualized religious slaughter by Muslims elsewhere did not infringe on freedom of religion.
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While the movie includes fun excursions to Oakland and Busan, it returns again and again to Wakanda — depicted here as an Afrofuturist landscape where science fiction gadgetry mingles seamlessly with a heavily ritualized (and vividly colorful) culture.
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The wearer has eschewed the ritualized violence of American football and the nostalgia of baseball, in favor of the grace and invention of the very simplest of sports, one that needs no razzmatazz injected into halftime shows.
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Magic mushrooms have been a part of human culture for thousands of years: Long before Alice fell down the rabbit hole, ancient civilizations from the Egyptians to the Aztecs were having ritualized encounters with the psychedelic growths.
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Wives, dressed in blue, oversee the home; Marthas, in green, cook and clean; Handmaids, in long red cloaks, with white bonnets that hide their faces, have intercourse once a month, in a ritualized threesome, a state-sanctioned rape.
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One of them talked about the process of dressing for space travel — referred to as "donning" and "doffing" — as being like a choreography, which gave Mr. Stiefel the idea of integrating this highly ritualized process into his ballet.
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The ritualized experience of the movies has been stripped of one of its most crucial components, and audience members are left to sit there, lost in their own thoughts, listening and trying to find their way through the darkness.
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But the revelations of his alleged high school and collegiate acts of ritualized degradation of women speak to a much wider and more insidious societal issue: the way homosocial male bonding is so often predicated on a woman's humiliation.
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After Wednesday's latest episode, "The Last Ceremony," I am thankful those women, who were already deeply upset by the constant ritualized rape, which Gilead attempts to sanitize with Bible passages and protocol, left the Handmaid's world when they did.
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The Seder (which means "order" in Hebrew) is held on the first two nights of the holiday; the ceremonial meal involves the recitation of the Exodus story, a standard set of songs, and plenty of ritualized eating and drinking.
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More than 100 dancers from organizations including the Ailey School, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Juilliard School and Steps on Broadway take part in this ritualized tribute, which ends at 8:46 a.m.
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Like a shaman animating natural or artificial landscapes through ritualized actions, Yürükoğlu reminds us that attempts at self-positioning are comforting acts of faith — not obligatory, but encouraged for a peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world.
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Or it could be that the technique has always been practiced against unrealistically overcommitted lunges—but that is largely a phenomenon in Japanese ritualized martial arts and this same wrist attack can be found in Chinese manuals on chin na.
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In addition to ritualized sexual abuse, this exploitation allegedly involved the singer's successful attempts to distance the children from their parents, bedroom marriage ceremonies, and other truly disturbing acts that make you wonder how they've held it together at all.
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Reidentifying this woman helps us to ponder anew the distinctive emphases of early Christians in Syria, who in this baptistery celebrated salvation through images of marriage, pregnancy and birth — as much or more than through participation in a ritualized death.
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Every pilot has a "call sign" or nickname as part of their ritualized initiation into the squadron, and when we visit the Wallbangers, it's "Zipples" who happens to be on duty, brewing coffee and playing Old Dominion on the stereo.
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Each artist had crafted a distinct sound: Baker, a recovered opioid addict from Memphis, whose musical upbringing was in the Christian church, makes spare and swelling music that draws from the melodies and the ritualized melancholy of the emo world.
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Reaganism made "ritualized denunciation" of the government routine, encouraging cynicism among conservatives; among liberals, a focus on marginalized groups has led to the competitive articulation of suffering, creating a culture of "majority victimhood," in which every group trumpets its grievances.
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Making a film of "The Soft Centre," he uses the small offices of his producer, Jean Almereyda (Jean-Pierre Mocky, an actor and director who was a contemporary of Mr. Godard's), to conduct elaborately ritualized auditions, creating assembly lines of emoting.
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In Gilead, the main occupation for "handmaids" is to submit to "The Ceremony" — in essence, ritualized rape — and bear a child, who will then be taken from her and given to the Commander (a high-ranking man) and his wife.
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The four-day presidential visit to Japan comes at a time when sumo, with its ritualized spectacle of oversize men grappling in carefully coifed topknots and loincloths, has come under intense scrutiny for discriminatory practices, hidebound traditions and bullying scandals.
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Molière took much from the Italian commedia dell'arte tradition, and Fritsch's production highlights this influence in its exaggerated and ritualized gestures — but with the sped-up energy of a silent comedy by Chaplin or Keaton and a dose of schlocky overacting.
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Most fitting for a Genet-like takedown is Trump's messy empire, expertly tailored by its maker to showcase late capitalism's ritualized sadism — from its pencil tower buildings and power neckties to his beauty contest carnivals and reality TV puppet shows.
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"It's almost like as long as humans have a memory of themselves, we have a memory of avoiding specific things in a ritualized way," said Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry, an associate professor of Islamic and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia.
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Clark presents "Another Room" (Monday and Tuesday), in which she considers time passing emotional memory, while Barnoy creates a ritualized version of daily prayer through movement in a work that is titled not by words but with a symbol (Monday and Wednesday).
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I am sorry that I can't report from the "Jam-filled" night — July 25 — because a Phish concert, finally, even with all its variations, is so ritualized that it is thrilling to not quite know where you are in the course of one.
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What The Discourse chose as its specific object was less important than the fact that there was now some fixed object that users could rally around, and that object existed only insofar as there was a process that ritualized its mass reception.
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A number of Hawaiian wrestlers have in the past risen to the highest ranks in this ancient and highly ritualized sport, although there are no Americans presently in the top levels of the sport and in with a chance of lifting the trophy.
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Upon the abolition of legal, interpersonal slavery, the exploitation and degradation of blacks continued in the neoslavery system of Jim Crow, a domestic terrorist regime fully sanctioned by the state and courts of the nation, and including Nazi-like instruments of ritualized human slaughter.
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For Westerners, one of the oddest features of Kathakali is how the ritualized artifice of the drama, with its scene changes hidden by a small curtain held up by two men, is informally surrounded by musicians who walk on and offstage during the action.
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True, the positions Mr. Buckley outlined over the years were supple enough, but their advocates were not: Their unthinking and increasingly ritualized loyalty to that phase of conservatism led the Republican establishment into political irrelevance, as Mr. Trump's takeover of the party so brutally revealed.
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Numerous scientists have questioned Berger's assertion that the fossils he found in the Rising Star cave system, in South Africa, displayed "ritualized behaviors directed toward the dead"—a claim that, if true, would mean Homo sapiens is not the only species with funerary practices.
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It's not just bleak — plenty of shows are bleak — but also determined to impress upon its viewers that its imagined dystopian future of fertile women being kept as breeding sows and ritualized rape reimagined as patriotic duty isn't too far off from our reality.
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Just as classicists have reminded us that the foundational institution of western civilization—the Greek symposium—was to all intents and purposes a ritualized drinking bout, so archaeologists tell us that psychoactive substances have been prepared and taken from the very earliest times of Homo existence.
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But in their regularity and quasi-formal structure (a far-right rally met by a far-left counterprotest), these fights have a surreal, ritualized quality that has turned them into media spectacles, which in turn allows them to be consumed nationally as skirmishes in a playacted civil war.
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Too many white Americans remain in the thrall of white supremacy and anti-black racism that is the direct byproduct of racial slavery and a still potent caste system that marks black bodies -- by virtue of their skin color -- as objects of systemic exploitation, ritualized violence and cultural derision.
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" In her deliberate refusal to valorize Confucian traditions of filial piety, Mizumura, who was educated in the United States but now resides in Tokyo, queries the dark contradictions in a modern Japan, where obligatory caretaking can manifest as ritualized misery, culminating in guilt-ridden, resentment-soaked "meshes of woe.
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" While Verkaik's accounts of sexual humiliation center on male-on-male hazing, his understanding of the way ritualized, eroticized degradation is vital to "male bonding," and to the formation, in turn, of a class of self-protective, privileged male elite, could just as easily apply to the so-called "Renate Alumni.
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It wasn't too much of a stretch to imagine a future society that ritualized warfare, turning the killing of teenagers (who are, after all, the majority of combatants in most modern wars) into must-see TV. That setup soon became a cliché, the premise that launched a thousand post-apocalyptic dystopias.
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Described as "a collective meditation on a well-kept secret," this 100-minute show about the runaway housing market in Berlin uses a ritualized call-and-response between the actors and the audience to reflect on the place of the individual, especially non-property-owners, in a deeply unequal society.
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Upon facing the electoral judgment of her persona for the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton began what has gradually evolved into a precarious shadow game with the American public — a ritualized series of reveals, retreats and resets, each iteration seemingly more freighted with recrimination and self-doubt than the one preceding it.
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The emergence of difference from sameness is one of the central preoccupations of Bouchra Ouizguen's "Corbeaux" ("Crows"), which combines the qualities of moving sculpture and sound installation as black-robed women utter piercing cries and abruptly jerk their heads backward as they move through a site-specific space with ritualized, repetitive intent.
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He brings performative gestures — professional wrestling, ritualized dress-up, dry humping of furniture — into spaces that are imbued with artifice, and in the moment of collision they produce the same feeling as when Jeffrey, the main character of David Lynch's Blue Velvet, finds a severed ear in the woods of his white-picket-fence suburban town.
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The country has suffered through so many similar incidents—at schools and concerts and nightclubs—in recent years that the response is almost ritualized: Photos are distributed of victims' families huddling in grief, biographies are assembled of the suddenly famous murderer, thoughts and prayers are offered in person and online, and many, many Americans call desperately for gun control.
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At times, you've been asked by the show's maestro and star, the drag queen and performance artist Taylor Mac, to dash across the room to re-enact the Oklahoma Land Rush, or in a ritualized recompense for white flight, to "move to the suburbs" by surrendering your coveted orchestra seat to someone who was stuck in the back.
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At least, I'm thinking of two cultural types of cannibalism recorded in the anthropological literature: One where you kind of take in the soul of your enemy [a wartime custom practiced by various peoples], and the other where you actually eat your relatives as part of a religious obligation and it would be rather ritualized [such as the Wari' from Brazil].
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And that leads me back to my therapist: crying on her couch, pulling Kleenex after Kleenex out of the box and trying to explain, through Borg Seven of Nine, how it feels to have to re-define friendship free from the ritualized insanity and mind-bending influence of the cult; free from the voices in my head that had controlled me for so long.
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To a dismaying extent, outlined brilliantly by Shelby Steele as early as 1990 and even truer today, the relationship between black people and educated America is after all a ritualized dance of ready reaction that pretends it is political activism: White people show their guilt; thoughtful black people excoriate those that don't as moral reprobates; white fellow travelers earnestly support them in this, hoping that they won't be next in the line of fire.
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In this unsentimental, deeply poignant book, Sujatha Gidla gives us stories of her family and friends in India — stories she had thought of as "just life," until she moved to America at the age of 26 and realized that the "terrible reality of caste" did not determine one's identity in other countries, that being born "an untouchable" did not entail the sort of ritualized restrictions and indignities she took for granted at home.
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" In a statement on behalf of Timothy's parents, Jim and Evelyn Piazza, attorney Thomas Kline said,"While pleased to see the charges of hazing and furnishing alcohol to minors move forward against some defendants, Jim and Evelyn Piazza are dismayed by the dismissal today of the tampering charges against one defendant, as well as dismissal of reckless endangerment charges against another who was involved in the same ritualized hazing as others who were held for trial in the prior preliminary hearing.
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In the interests of heightening the depravity of the Gilead regime, the TV writers have told an increasingly grisly story, which dwells, at gruesome length, on sadistic tortures inflicted upon the Handmaids: In addition to the ritualized rapes described in the novel, there are finger amputations, Taser assaults, an excised eyeball, hands scorched on hot stoves, muzzles and metal rings used to keep the women's mouths clamped shut — the sort of abominations more likely to be found in the misogynistic horror porn that Offred's activist mother wanted to burn, than in a feminist allegory.
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