His dad pulls a cigar from his pocket, clipping it and lighting up in the careful ritual he’s done for years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The platoon was preparing to move out, checking weapons, going through all the rituals that preceded a day’s march. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police and attendants moved calmly, surely as if they were performing a ritual and had forgotten the meaning of it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scientists attribute the significantly larger population in the Americas to a relatively disease-free society whose use of herbal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and hygienic and ritual bathing kept disease at bay. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On a typical night, Bertram kept his thoughts close until his third drink, when the whiskey unstoppered him and he rambled animatedly about Massachusetts blizzards, medical-school hazing rituals, or the relative intelligence of Virginia opossum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And for some reason, seeing all these little domestic signs of familiarity, our daily ritual, made me swoon inside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family without ritual and order was a rootless tribe subject to boredom and anarchy, lowered heads, pouting mouths, and sorrowing memories of friends left behind. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She misses their evening ritual, lying next to her daughter in bed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When he was told no, the prisoner seemed disappointed, as though he thought the protocol surrounding this ritual of vengeance was not being properly observed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, hereditary propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, which place our survival in some question. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically ritual feasts that included much smashing of pottery interrupted the hubbub of construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the next morning, Fina has decided that the figure we saw was not a vampire but was, in fact, a cult leader about to perform a satanic ritual, possibly involving human sacrifice. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then would come the glass of tea, the Afternoon Service, the ritual of the contest—Danny didn’t once miss finding his father’s deliberate errors—the Evening Service, and the Havdalah. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father loves ritual and ceremony but has very few things to be ritualistic or ceremonial about. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cheetahs usually refuse to carry out that elaborate courtship ritual inside a cage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she completed the ritual, she asked Iras and Charmion to prepare her bath and arrange for a meal to be brought to her. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds—pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the lawyer had performed all the right rituals and pronounced all the necessary spells and oaths, millions of upright French citizens behaved as if the Peugeot company really existed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ainu people of Japan made the experiment by routinely rearing grizzly cubs as part of a ritual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she admired the ritual, envying the Levys the pleasure they took in one another’s company, wishing her cousins lived nearby so she could have an orchestra of her own. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine, being a Muslim minister, a leader in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam, and not knowing the prayer ritual. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Academy she had learned about the appropriate rituals for a funeral, but only from books. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was excitement in the crowd, and I shuddered slightly knowing that the ritual was about to begin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have brought this week’s Zamani goat for the temple’s ritual sacrifice.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was drained from the protection ritual and from the day itself. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sheepishly, he said, “I admit. I have looked into the ancient rituals. Not for myself,” he added quickly. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

People have settled into their New Year’s Day rituals. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A new land of ritual initiation; I found myself curiously proud despite the fix being in. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had no words and I'd never been to a Brotherhood funeral and had no idea of a ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women in her circle comported themselves in a foreign ritual, undecipherable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was in total shock that Maddie’s arm was around my shoulder and that she’d said “we” about her and me and that she still remembered our popcorn ritual from our sleepovers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Colonel Meecham appreciated the eminence of ritual in relationship to the morale of troops in peace and war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fights between bears were common, and the subject of much ritual. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is understood between us by now that it is never too late, but I go through the ritual politeness of asking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held both palms up to face the sky, one gloved, one sleeved in bees, like a shaman performing some ancient ritual. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father’s wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to focus the conversation on rituals, my nemesis, I said, after a thoughtful pause, “Is that why Papa insists that we do rituals?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through mv awful, achingly familiar ritual of trying to remember exactly what I did. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence a “dead” image lost its potency after the killing ritual had been performed and could be disregarded when the spell had to be renewed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They clambered out of the City of Seattle, onto the floating dock, and reenacted a universal ritual of winning crews: the dunking of the coxswain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He felt glum; his offering, possessing the quality of an authentic old pre-war ritual, had not been accepted. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, as we went through the obscene ritual of shopping for the right box in which to bury our dad, Craig and I managed to have our first and only fight as adult siblings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There is ambiguity, and some symbolism, in the elaborate ritual observed by each returning expedition of astronauts from the moon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular ritual of my parents’ was actually a thing I loved; I’d spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, moved to tears by a particularly powerful line of verse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could remember, it had been a yearly ritual. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Papa had driven us past the crowds at Ezi Icheke once, some years ago, and he muttered about ignorant people participating in the ritual of pagan masquerades. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But religion is more than rite and ritual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In some way, maintaining some rituals helps them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They became horsemen, caballeros, men whose daily life was wrapped up in the ritual of horsemanship. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As our illustration suggests, it must have served a sun-worshiping ritual. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drüskelle around the ash left off their rituals and began shouting orders, and a wave of guards descended from the towers to spread out over the island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“All this ritual—it’s like something you’d see in a tone cult,” she said when Faraday returned to his seat, hands still damp. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying I know everything. But I have never heard of blood as an element in healing rituals.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She reached out for Taisin’s hand, but she had already turned away to finish the ritual. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn’t seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual, a quest for chess wisdom. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One ritual the men looked forward to was hearing a recipe from a small paperback cookbook that Marston had. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to understand this ritual but me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ritual had been going on for a week now and it would continue until the cue was heard no more. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students at the To Keung School of Midwifery were new women, scientists who changed the rituals. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There can be little doubt that they were produced as part of a magic ritual, perhaps to ensure a successful hunt. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholas had stopped by, too, on his weekly ritual, to eat Sunday rice. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A ritual took place in the dormitory after each beating. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had performed smaller protection rituals before, but never one this major, or as important. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is not just a surgical procedure, but a lengthy and elaborate ritual in preparation for manhood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want to be able to prove their belief and their belonging, through rituals and devotion. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The town awoke in ritual, ten thousand different ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is also part of our birthday ritual: She lights a single candle in the center of the cake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Research shows that these religions differed from Christianity in many ways, including the power that women could hold in rituals. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was washing myself at the camp water pump, part of my daily ritual, when I saw two SS officers lure a deer to the fence of their enclosure in the zoo. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His runs were a morning ritual, heavy or not. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This ritual has been done in secret since the first slaves worked the sugarcane fields on this island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One of my royal inventors made these for me. Remember when you first came to my toilette ritual—on my birthday—and I handed out jewelry?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The leprechaun is bound by certain rituals. Very specific rituals, I might add. We can use them to track one down.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The next day the Husky crews performed a time-honored Poughkeepsie ritual and visited each of their rivals’ shell houses to pay grudging respect to their competitors before taking to the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He advised me to eat heartily, as the Hajj rituals require plenty of strength. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every few years, with a regularity and rapture that approached ritual, they traded up for a new car. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just after reading time ended, either on weekends or when we got word of trouble, Mother and Grandma would begin the ritual I watched for my entire childhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I watch this yearly ritual in our backyard; my nightmares per­sist long after the bloodstains on the grass have faded. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She did not change her schedule or modify her ritual. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was moving fast—fast like a dancer in a temple ritual, fast like a snake in the Red Desert, fast like water down the side of a mountain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From then on, I knew that there was a ritual to a street fight, bylaws and codes that, in their very need, attested to all the vulnerability of the black teenage bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The instructor handed out garbage bags for us to place our uniforms in and offered us the rationale for this ritual of suffering. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Japanese warfare had previously involved single combats between samurai swordsmen, who stood in the open, made ritual speeches, and then took pride in fighting gracefully. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They raced through their morning rituals, and left the apartment by seven-thirty. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a less ambitious ritual for Ruth, but a way, nevertheless, for her to display her family. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole ritual takes barely takes two minutes, and it gives her peace of mind. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Just getting to the island itself was difficult, and added to that were the harsh rituals of the prison, the undoubted indignities of the warders, and the impersonality of the contact. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the one ritual they do have to celebrate womanhood is so bloody and painful, I forbid Olivia to even think about it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma pulled the mac and cheese out of the oven, and we sat at the table for dinner—our Saturday-night ritual. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual that was all too rare for him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dummies built to flare up bright and sudden, a ritual to celebrate the end of the year, something that was supposed to keep demons away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know, but it seemed like a holy ritual I shouldn’t interrupt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protection ritual would reshape portions of that field, reweaving the net into a barrier around their camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It seared a sharp homesickness in Obinze, this ritual of hospitality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had played it for so long it had become a bedtime ritual, like brushing teeth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a formula, a ritual faithfully followed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their deadly ritual for the autumn solstice would have been completed by him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, there is. If I had done the protection ritual, Tali would still be here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was a ritual all the local Japanese mothers performed the day before they sent their daughters off to school for the first time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers shook slightly as she took out the herbs that she would need for the ritual. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People in across countless cultures have chanted or sung poetry for all types of human rituals, ceremonies and for entertainment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My mom got the calm that came with the ritual, so I’m not going to tell her about this. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Vincenzio was something of a freethinker, by the standards of the day, and had no great love of the forms and rituals of the Church. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

After this ritual viewing we continue on our way, heading as usual for some open space we can cross, so we can talk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think about what could go wrong if she performed this ritual incorrectly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ritual played itself out with absurd regularity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the scene now from far back in my despair, seeing the platform and its actors as through a reversed telescope; small doll-like figures moving through some meaningless ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 260-day ritual calendar may have been linked to the orbit of Venus; the 365-day calendar, of course, tracked the earth’s orbit around the sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

These rides that the family took on Sunday afternoons had become rituals and much too important for Macon to enjoy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had typed up an explanation of Bengali wedding rituals on the computer and mailed it to all the Americans on the guest list. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I knew I did not fit into their world, which was governed by ritual and prayer. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The things he did seemed right, as he imagined with his heart the rituals the cloud priests performed during a drought. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their rituals are not to be taken seriously. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dinka boys of fifteen or sixteen must go through an intense ritual of initiation. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This must be some sort of attic ritual I didn’t know about. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One night, as he’s performing this same ritual, a show he’s never seen catches his eye. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the colleges of Oxford, after a brief and turbulent interlude, were settling back into the calm of scholarship and ritual. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If this ritual of ornamentation didn’t occur, Mollie feared Anna’s spirit might be lost. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Underland was no secret to the Native Americans, who had made periodic trips below the earth for ritual purposes for hundreds of years. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not religious but I get the feeling that it’s the simplest rituals, the ones that are integrated with the earth and its seasons, that are the most profound. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been the solemnity of the pre-game ritual, when all the players lay on the floor as if they were soldiers in the hull of a ship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tasted their food, observed their rituals, and admired their clothing. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was rushing around in her usual morning ritual, making breakfast and lunch, putting on her eye makeup while looking at her reflection in the toaster oven. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There was but one method for obtaining this life-energy: ritual human sacrifice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I will leave you here, Camellia, to get acquainted and witness the toilette ritual that only befits a princess and future queen. I'll see you later this evening for the royal games and banquet." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For me, giving commencement speeches was an important, almost sacred springtime ritual. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lillian had already gotten up and was putting on her robe and house shoes in preparation for the impending predawn ritual at the tree. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ritual that seeks to feed my mind and would starve my somewhat metaphorical soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd performed the ceremonies and rituals perfectly, according to Big Harm. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some things, I guess, we do out of tradition, out of ritual, out of need. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hear and see everything, and that first afternoon he somehow managed to talk the girl Egyptians into doing all their ceremonies and rituals over for him to watch. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath her breath, she muttered a blessing ritual meant to keep a body in its grave. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll pick you up at noon on Saturday. Don’t be late. Good luck with the ritual sacrifice.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Brown divulged what he was learning at the weekly Klan meetings: the identities of the Klan’s local and regional leaders; their upcoming plans; the Klan’s current rituals, passwords, and language. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to have to learn the rituals and customs of a new high school. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everything followed in the same sequence, as it always did, the ritual sounds of getting dressed that now seemed so automatic, so reflexive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounds annoyed with the endless pray­ing, the ritual of making the meat halal. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were Gaines’s words, but they could have come from any high school coach renewing the ritual of sport, the ritual of high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Her toilette ritual is set to begin in just a moment. You're right on time." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Regina established a Sunday night ritual of running a bath for him, practically carrying him to the tub. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also went with Grandfather to have his first ritual Jewish bath in preparation for the Sabbath. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I learned what I needed to know through the rituals of storytelling. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of ritual may have centered on this figure we can only guess. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, the forest was so dangerous that hunters observed a sacred ritual before their outings. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And now it was time to commence the dreaded ritual of emerging from the warmth of my goose-down cocoon into the withering cold of 21,300 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In spring, along with the daffodils, crowds on the ferry, and workers raking the beaches, comes the ritual of real estate gossip. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was eager for the three cups of chai she and Laila would share in the yard, a nighdy ritual now. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He did that for years, so that even the children learned to accept that ritual. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Indians used sugar in rituals, they also enjoyed eating chunks of sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was not an unreasonable argument, but the prevailing view, with which I agreed, was that circumcision was a cultural ritual that had not only a salutary health benefit but an important psychological effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clarence Monteith had a heart attack right in the middle of the closing ritual and before supper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was not entirely sure what she herself believed, but she knew that her mother would want them to do these rituals for her, and that was enough. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Taisin, why did your teacher warn you about the protection ritual?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was intensely worried about her daughter bringing a son into America, because she could not save him, she could not secure his body from the ritual violence that had claimed her son. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Stravinsky reported that the idea for a piece based on an ancient pagan dance of ritual human sacrifice came to him in a dream and that the scenario suggested such a deliberately layered sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While Hinduism retained its popular rituals and devotion to its pantheon, at its core Hinduism became monotheistic and introspective. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My life, and that of most Xhosas at the time, was shaped by custom, ritual, and taboo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dog Breath had a ritual of his own to perform, but then, suddenly, the ball was coming her way. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You can do this,” he said, just louder than a whisper, and he ran through the ritual that his therapist had taught him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You have disturbed our sacred rituals. You cannot look upon our mysteries and live.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams, Jonas didn’t contribute much. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

On top of this, school rituals reinforced an intimate atmosphere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Music was still used for great occasions of state and it was still central to religious ritual - but now it was also addressing people’s intimate emotional exchanges. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Here the only official ritual is pledging allegiance first thing in the morning to the American flag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to those of Megan's family, our family rituals were either less rigid or nonexistent. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

People performed all kinds of small rituals before they walked through that steel door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, he first washed in a ritual cleansing called wuduu, required of worshipers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nor did he wish to endure the rituals of a hanging: being bound and blindfolded, parading past his own coffin and open grave, climbing the steps of the scaffold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood back, breathless from our exertions, compelled as always to wait and watch the dreadful Carleton while he performed the ritual of inspection. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was again faced with the dilemma of Valentine’s Day, confronting another strange ritual I did not understand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The fact that he willingly, without question or protest, submitted to the witch doctor’s rituals made him a stranger to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed almost rhetorical, a ritual before the masters discussed the applicant’s tuition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rituals, conceived by Mary Anne, were being thickened, lengthened, and enriched. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual he could perform in his sleep, one for which his father had trained him from childhood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The details of a proper toilette ritual for a queen and princess took weeks and weeks of studying and endless days of exams from Du Barry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It felt comforting this time, a memory of a ritual that gestured safety. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was one of the rituals, the evening telling of feelings. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And in the late nineteenth century the Congress made its reading a mandatory ritual on Washington’s birthday. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For three days all the normal rituals of our life were suspended, while half-forgotten rituals, like praying, were renewed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her black hair, which was normally coiled in two careful braids tucked against the nape of her neck, was coming loose as though she had rushed through her morning rituals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I said my prayers, trying to push it away with ritual, but it kept oozing back round the worn edges of the words. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shook her to know that this ritual that should protect them all was also doing the one thing she wanted to avoid. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee tells me that Lewis and Clark came with gifts and that it was a ritual to have a meeting ceremony. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s in a little shopping village and follows the small-restaurant ritual of being dimly lit. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It is not known whether Bobby, on or near his thirteenth birthday of March 9, 1956, participated in the formal Jewish ritual of Bar Mitzvah, reading Hebrew from the Torah at a synagogue. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My computer woke me up just before sundown, and I began my daily ritual. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He walked to the space at the front of the stage and began the ritual that always opened the ceremony. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the people, even the Catholics who went to mass every Sunday, followed the ritual of the deer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual fight, one gang against another, him against Head Buster. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one had ever witnessed my mud ritual, and I prided myself on being aware of my surroundings so that I wasn’t taken by surprise as I just had been. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh no,” said Moss, the words spilling out of him like a ritual. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex had thought the ritual of the Mass, which he knew so well, would provide him with comfort, but his mind was reeling from all Father Franco had said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck around and claimed I wanted to get my head in the space, claimed I had some preseason ritual, which they all bought, filtering out one by one. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with ritual significance, he looked mournfully into the clay mug that sat in front of him and carefully turned it upside down on the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But for a long time the little arms and legs and voices were part of my nightly ritual before sleep. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little ritual the Richardson kids had developed over the past few years, one of the few times they agreed on anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Death of the Fruit Tree Blossoms, a ritual that took place every spring, had been known to drive some people more than a little ding-y. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the pitcher to me, and I repeated the ritual, but I remained seated. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that things work differently in the Great Wood. That people get lost, even if they have a map. That magic goes awry there; rituals go bad. That sort of thing.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently, this was one ritual she'd started in the early days of their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That day at lunch, she’d attempted to create a bit of a family moment by reading aloud from the local paper, something of a Saturday ritual in the Hunter household. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The doctor diagnosed various problems, some lethal, all apparently debilitating, and left me taking various medications and endless rituals of check-ins and checkouts and tests and retests.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every February my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Every day Pitezel joined three dozen other men in the daily ritual of “passing through the line” to receive his injections. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Store-bought ice cream is cheap, but for Felicia, making ice cream from scratch is part of the ritual that began after her husband left in 1966. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for all the attention paid to such rituals, Buddhism as practiced by the Sherpas was a refreshingly supple and non- dogmatic religion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ritual of building his mother’s breasts and insulting them simply had no meaning. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was none of the discussion that had been part of the family ritual. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was something almost prim about the way she sat there, and yet she had just made a modest proposal that I join her in a very revolting ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had finished her ritual, Blanca climbed into bed and turned out the light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rafik lit a stick of incense and wandered back and forth in the hall as if conducting a ritual. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there had been the effusion of the post-game ritual, screams and catcalls followed by eager plans for the glorious remainder of Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual as serious as the morning prayers of a missionary, and one which I took pains to finish well before Caroline could be expected to wake up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the spectrum, the Refined tended toward the more formalized ritual, setting up black churches within traditionally white denominations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even on the road, living out of motel rooms, Enrique maintains one ritual. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Religion was a ritual that I indulged in for my mother’s sake and to which I attached no meaning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first Inka Yupanki presented the captives to his father, so that Wiraqocha Inka could perform the victory ritual of wiping his feet on their bodies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But we are largely at a loss in trying to comprehend the beliefs and rituals of ancient hunter-gatherers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward-facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With hands over hearts, the class performed the ritual that ushered in another day at school. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The SS surrounding us, machine guns aimed at us: the usual ritual. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember, too, the talks of visiting speakers, all eager to inform us of how fortunate we were to be a part of the "vast" and formal ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an important ritual and called for detailed instructions by Mama. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second major thing about the Greeks and music is that they treated it as an essential part of all their significant rituals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But their rituals were so similar, the way they walked and gave dap, it was all familiar to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The heavy charms on Sydelle Pulaski's bracelet clinked and clunked as she raised a full fork and flourished it in a practiced ritual before aiming it at her open mouth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the small population, die old courting rituals had nearly ceased. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Because life is so hard. No food. No clothes. The police. What’s the use of living without food? And Papa is always beating me up and making me perform rituals.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt vaguely reassured seeing her perform the ritual. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You just don’t notice it because they do theirs differently. Even white people do rituals.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m doubtful I’ll ever make it through public school alive, so it’s kind of nice to get this ritual over with now. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As their ritual combat moved toward the second phase, the two bears began to prowl restlessly on the snow, edging forward, swinging their heads. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s days begin with the ritual of a Beny More song called “Rebel Heart.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were the sweating rituals, topped by “road work.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Menstruation was not something that Ophie looked forward to; she understood the monthly ritual of bleeding but was rather happy not to have one more hassle in her life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s safe to talk again, the Commander has finished the main ritual and they’re doing the rings, lifting the veils. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rituals of conclave were just as they had been before. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As a result, timekeeping was vital to the monks’ rituals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dinka patterns again—the kind that were given to the boys in Salva’s village as part of the ritual of becoming a man. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Altamira and Lascaux, then, the main purpose may no longer have been to “kill” but to “make” animals: to increase their supply, perhaps through seasonal rituals repeated year after year. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any obsessive ritual to keep your own heart beating. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the ritual: the circle of women coming together to celebrate being alive—and being a woman, which is a magic all its own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were times when such scenes terrified me, but I have seen the ritual performed so many times that I now feel nothing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of my clothes are ever particularly clean, but I cling to these rituals nevertheless. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was Jamie Lowry, staying with his mom that weekend and thereby forced to attend the picnic, who saw Ray do his little courtship ritual. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

With gushing admiration, they photograph indigenous clothes, pay money to watch traditional dances, marvel over everything about Quichua celebrations, crafts, folktales, rituals, gods and goddesses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to prove to the orishas that she was a true believer, serious and worthy of serving them, so she continued her rituals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could have—I should have done a protection ritual. Around the camp.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Princes and kings joined in the celebrations and rituals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Weaving a protection ritual around our camp would...rearrange the natural meridians. Those who are sensitive to the lines of energy would—if they are near enough or powerful enough, they would notice.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rest was of the Kukukuku, a hostile and murderous tribe with a homosexual ritual in which preadolescent boys were required to serve as courtesans for the male elders of the tribe. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As with Gothic churches, which had plazas for the outdoor performance of sacred mystery plays, the mounds had greens before them: ritual spaces for public use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s one of her superstitions—I mean rituals. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Adding to the intrigue of the illegal speakeasies were the rituals that were part of their way of operating. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Thyon, thirteen years old and sharp as the point of a viper’s fang, had looked around him at the cryptic rituals and philosophies and seen it all as obfuscation cooked up to excuse that failure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet he was as deliberate about setting up his motel room as a military ritual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Fascinating as your native rituals are, do you think we might proceed in silence? Given that the entire rat nation is on the lookout for us, it might be prudent,” said Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Because of them I can enjoy my afternoon, and return, smiling and refreshed, to face the little ritual of our tea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I understood it all—the cable wires, the extension cords, the ritual switch. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The rituals were very complicated and the correct order of processions, chants, prostrations, sprinklings with holy water and sacrificial offerings had to be carefully written down so that they wouldn’t be forgotten. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are in the presence of a strongly dominant male, a super-alpha male, and they must submit to his dominance rituals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our rituals healed her, made her believe again. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like something you see on TV, like a National Geographic special on funeral rituals. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Neat,” Melanie said, and, taking the flowers back, she repeated the ritual, adding another refinement by tapping her forehead to the floor three times. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You magical types and your rituals. You have no idea how liberating it is to be rid of all that mumbo jumbo.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Tea is their normal morning ritual, but having it in my bedroom is not. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When the ritual was completed, she stepped back and smiled up at him, tears glistening in her eyes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu enjoyed the Sunday ritual of those meals in the ornate hotel dining room, full of nicely dressed people, silver-haired couples with their grandchildren, middle-aged women with brooches pinned on their lapels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I began seeking ways of distancing myself from my father’s rituals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remembered the rituals my father had forced me to learn, and the many times he had said that he wanted me to grow up the way he did. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, exercising was a part of my daily ritual. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This ritual continued for months, until the shoes formed a huge pile surrounding the santo, and trickles of miniature footwear were spreading out underneath the pews. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to the cemetery, the family praying, a strange woman singing “Precious Lord,” were unfamiliar rituals. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I went there with him three times a week throughout my child­hood, a Monday, Wednesday, Friday early morning ritual with the clockwork regularity of a good front-crawl stroke. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Did they have ceremonies, moral codes, sports contests and religious rituals? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ritual seemed designed to send a message. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“An ancient ritual, Your Radiance. Three Graces shall be present to witness the examination and say the proper prayers.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Will our parents scream at the school board if she allows a religious ritual in her office? Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

There were so many girls in so many windows washing this way that it seemed a kind of hushed and expectant ritual. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weren’t they as full of strange rituals and food? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She spat on the doorknob twice, a ritual that, she once told me, protected the innocent and kept all evil spirits away, including the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief claimed to serve the people by interceding for them with the gods and reciting the ritual formulas required to obtain rain, good harvests, and success in fishing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even mind his coming back and shouting restrictions at me and making me perform rituals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The supper conversations became ritual, outgrowing the house and migrating to the meeting house, whereupon Gloria stopped serving food and drink and let them fend for themselves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As a little kid, one of the first things I ever learned to do with my hands was the ritual of rice—washing it, cooking it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Wes began his ritual search for change in her closet, but the jar was not in its usual place. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After the show, the two would engage in a New York City ritual. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would reconvene for the beginning of the Advance in Age and the rituals of growing older. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You think that by doing the protection ritual, you’ll draw them to us.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was there watching and wondering how this ritual went and I reminisced back to when I was a freshman pledging for this sorority. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even now it does not feel a wholly natural act so much as it feels like ritual. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if they were engaged in a secret ritual. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to find adequate space to run and stretch and even harder to find a quiet corner for my breathing and mantra ritual. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From the very first time she performed the ritual, she had known that the connection between the two of them was different than what she felt with the others. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was angry with myself for not having taken the time to leam more of the orthodox prayer rituals before leaving America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is its own kind of ritual, and Mom always wins. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I left the strip, prepared to give the ritual high-fives to rest of the team, I noticed Dagmara was hysterically crying. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a widespread belief that Jews poisoned wells and kidnapped children to use in ritual murders. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

But I know that I have always felt great distance from the grieving rituals of my people, and I must have felt it powerfully then. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Is there a courtship ritual that involves, perhaps, an exchange of doctors’ telephone numbers? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime early in her marriage, Helen began a ritual: Each time his mount left the paddock and set his first forehoof onto the track, she would pray that the horse would see him home safely. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are certain rituals every fairy must complete to renew his magic,” explained Artemis. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I kept all my stuffed animals on the bed, painstakingly tucking them around my head each night as a form of ritual comfort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Watching it is also part of our birthday ritual. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we talk, he is walking a circular route around the classroom, straightening and fluffing the upholstery on the couches and chairs, a ritual he performs numerous times a day, always in a clockwise direction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After interviewing numerous firefighters and other eyewitnesses, the inquiry found that there had been drinking following the Saturday night fire, a ritual that was common not only in Chicago, but in all cities back then. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think of this as I go through the rituals of a Sunday morning at church. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Along with the rituals, there were also tribal laws governing manners. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capping the brainstem is the R-complex, the seat of aggression, ritual, territoriality and social hierarchy, which evolved hundreds of millions of years ago in our reptilian ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With gestures, he indicated that he would demonstrate to me the proper prayer ritual postures. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with this solar calendar, there was a ritual calendar that had 20 weeks, each of 13 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Part of this ritual is mild derision, of other people’s jokes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took notes on our “ideation systems” and “rituals of kin bonding.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Baba smiles and mutes the volume, then begins the familiar ritual of tea making. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The cycle referenced in the title is a system for synchronizing the ritual and solar years by adding extra months to the calendar at intervals of two years, but not in the eighth year. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

And in the belly of this story the rituals and the ceremony are still growing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother also seemed calmed and relaxed by this timeless domestic ritual; knitting always seemed to soothe her headaches, and she didn’t need such frequent doses of Lydia Pinkham’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star; One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It had become our ritual, and for several weeks, before we grew more comfortable with one another, it was the only time he spoke to me directly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There, first, they dropped their cloaks on chairs; then came their ritual: putting great rams and fat goats to the knife— pigs and a cow, too. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, it was a hazing ritual: Despite the instructors’ claims, I could see no real connection be-tween repeatedly falling flat on your face and self-preservation in-side a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while Dad is doing his nightly murmuring-into-the-phone ritual with the door to his room closed, I slip upstairs to Mr, X’s apartment and wedge Safer’s balled-up gum wrapper between the door and the frame. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I found her dignified ritual riveting, but when the spell was broken I realized that I needed to get going myself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After the tolling of the names and the ritual washing, the entire morning was dedicated to a heated debate about whether or not fire should be banned as a method of gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It now sounds like a strange sporting ritual for teenage boys born under the astrological signs Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Remember, Hannahleh, we open our door to remind ourselves of the time Jews were forced to keep their doors open to show the Christians we were not practicing blood rituals. Hah!” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actors reenacted the same stories in grand pageants and ritual celebrations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everybody left me alone on meet days because they knew I had my rituals—hair, nails, begging for Flo Jo to give me some of her magic from heaven. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wes laced up his white Nikes, beelined to his mother’s room, and started to look through her drawers and closets for change, his daily ritual after she left for work. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This was part of the ritual of drowning fearful or unpleasant thoughts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he had almost buried the stake, he pulled it from the ground with his massive hands, and repeated the ritual until he felt he had punished his body enough. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows they get up to something secret. They have a ritual or something. And I just wanted to know what it was.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“People do rituals because they were born in the tribes. And in the tribes rituals are done every day. They are a way of life.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This painful ritual went on week after week, until “at last the frosts and storms of November came and threw a chilling barrier between the living and the dead, and we went there no more.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is thought that Palaeolithic cave- iwellers would sing here not only as part of communal ritual, but also to find their bearings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“These rituals are empty,” Hizdahr declared, “just the sort of thing we must sweep aside. Meereen has been steeped in these foolish old traditions for too long.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Opening the mail in the morning became a ritual. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, finally, our beloved springtime ritual was back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You understand that it is wrong to take joy in pagan rituals, because it breaks the first commandment. Pagan rituals are misinformed superstition, and they are the gateway to Hell. Do you understand that, then?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened herself to new friends, the stern but doting Methodist faculty, and the school’s routine and rituals. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We’d just returned from Good Friday services at St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church, and were about to perform my favorite Biles family ritual—tie-dying eggs for our annual Easter egg hunt. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lucky Strike organized scavenge parties to take care of the dead, burning them or burying them according to their rituals, and making the place safe from disease. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is an unquestioned ritual, a yearly migration to the town where Gerald’s parents live year-round. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At ten I knew the meaning of the many ritual gestures the priest makes during the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unfurling of an embryo; the reach of a plant toward sunlight; the ritual dance of bees—every biological activity required the decoding of coded instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ritual affirmed who we were despite the humiliating restrictions outside our door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was a ritual Joyce performed once a month, and she always looked forward to it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After that particular ritual was over, Oliver leaned down and pulled out the bag of cookies his mom had made for their family. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The villagers who still practiced the old Slavist rituals would decorate birch trees, string up flowers and branches, and leave extra offerings for the rusalki. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We had something to look forward to—a small ritual that brought relief to our gray days and dark nights. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What if she was out here doing some kind of ritual sacrifice? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But it is an English mass I attend, a ritual of words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adah chimed in: “A little ritual killing, a little infant mortality, just a few of the many healthy natural processes we don’t care to think about.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents, of course, were part of the ritual; they, too, told their feelings each evening. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Reverend forbade us to observe any ritual over which he was not asked to preside, but twice, at night, I slipped out to spy on the funerals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that, to me, is the terrible seduction of Dionysiac ritual. Hard for us to imagine. That fire of pure being.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Religious feelings and faith were channeled through ritual. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ritual enacted on Saturday nights between Jean Louise and her father was too old to be broken. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was their new ritual since the war started, the only reason he was grateful for the war. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Curled up under the sheets, she watched her mother complete her nightly ritual and climb into bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the same ritual at another hole in a far corner of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And rituals help too: door locking, tidying up, cleaning teeth, arranging hair, but they are preliminaries to the truly necessary things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning ritual went on, each worker accepting his portion from Ranofer and carrying it to the courtyard to begin his task, while the scribe kept strict account of every grain. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The message was irrefutable, for Ben was fluent in the rituals of disaster. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Jabir’s odd jobs at the Night Zoo was to deliver a Zamani goat to the temple every week for ritual sacrifice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We were escorted to the river to bathe in its cold waters, a ritual that signified our purification before the ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they know that the meeting ceremony ritual was not so innocent, that it wasn’t just an exchange of goods?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This oil was the only thing needed to perform the ritual, that and the holy authority resting in my father’s misshapen hands. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I guess if I’d been daring I could have countered Faith's story with one about my family’s religious rituals. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Of course she had seen others go through the rituals. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A belief in God and the rituals surrounding that belief— church every Sunday, grace before meals, prayers before bed— were an important part of the Deweys’ existence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find the rituals comforting—the tried-and-true hymns, sermons by the mild- mannered, slope-shouldered reverend that emphasize decency and good manners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There is what the rite and ritual stand for. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was part of the White House ritual: Two binders got delivered every evening, one for me and a much thicker, leather-bound one for Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No matter how tired Celia was—and sometimes she almost fell over with exhaustion—she never neglected this ritual. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Aisling’s father had ordered all the old rituals, even though he did not believe in them, just in case. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voting, for me, was a habit, a healthy ritual to be done conscientiously and at every opportunity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Also supporting the belief that Bobby had experienced the ritual was the fact that, many years later, he gave an old chess clock and chess set to his Hungarian friend Pal Benko, a grandmaster. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That had always been the one quality that hampered Kaede’s ability to work through the rituals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the Church fathers who initiated rituals that reflect a shared priesthood of laity and clergy should not be surprised by the independence of modern Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I imagined that Alaska would want a smoke, and so it seemed to me that the Colonel had begun an excellent ritual. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Making scrapple was Mr. Object’s Sunday morning ritual. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some of its members had hurled bottles and rocks during the recent demonstrations, but when the marches and rallies ended, the Klansmen contented themselves with their weekly doses of ritual and vitriol. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tell the servants a ritual feast will be prepared in hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nods, and returns to her puzzle ritual. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Heqet and the Ancient mechanically performed the usual ritual of dividing what food there was, but their attention was riveted on Ranofer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

For the most significant portion of my time at The Mecca, I followed a simple ritual. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She finally got out of the house again that night by performing an elaborate ritual about having to go to the library. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Such a strange ritual, to send the body into the ground. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bestowing a name was one of the most important Osage rituals; only then was someone considered a person by the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They repeated the ritual, and Thorn turned into an adorable old lady, resembling Grandma Lilou down to the shiny silvery hair. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When it gets too old, perhaps 20 or so years old, you can slaughter it in a special ritual in your boma, the corral that surrounds the cows at night. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its purification rituals and its imperial roots, sumo is sacrosanct in a way that American sports will never be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But I had no patience with rituals, and I continued hating them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ritual of it, the setting up and sitting down that seemed to her, from outside of it, the simple heart of culture. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ritual scar patterns on her forehead were familiar: They were Dinka patterns, which meant that she was from the same tribe as Salva. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the painting was finished, two new rituals, Morning Repentance and Evening Report, began. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening the lunchtime ritual was repeated. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weak observe the rituals—take their hats off, put them on again, raise their arms, lower their arms, moan, intone, press their palms together—but no one harbors unreasonable expectations. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As further punishment, he increased the number of rituals I had to participate in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell him that she suspected that Tali’s soul had departed long before any of their burial rituals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was part of a ritual our cooks followed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day passed, and Edward was aware of time passing only because every morning he could hear Ernest performing his dawn ritual, cackling and crowing about being king of the world. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the woman was a spirit person and had come here to perform rituals with her fellow ogbanje. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s always loved the ritual: starting off the day with a devotion to God. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I assume this is a 1st-day ritual and not something we have to go through each morning. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He followed no formulas, no regimens, no superstitious rituals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both places the public death was accompanied by the reading of ritual scripts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or was this a wifely game that she did not know about, a daily ritual, like soaking rice or making dough? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The same ritual was repeated for him as for all the others. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He instructs Felicia to perform a rubbing ritual to cleanse herself of negative influences. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Fantastic,” Emenike said, instantly sinking into one of the rituals of his new life: eyebrows furrowed, concentration sharp, sipping sparkling water and studying a restaurant menu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It hurt, but Nhamo accepted it as part of the strange rituals of the spirit world. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask the teacher what he thinks about Tolstoy's relationship to the church, which excommunicated him after he denounced their bureaucracy, rituals and avarice. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

Applying perfume often involves a certain choreographed ritual: “You spray it on your pulse points, then wait for the alcohol to evaporate and the notes to develop,” says the Iranian-born fashion designer Behnaz Sarafpour. The Refreshing Appeal of Water-Based Perfumes 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

It was a regular ritual; when here, they did little else. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z

Some parents calm their separation anxiety by focusing on what they intend to keep from the bubble life: family rituals, a sense of resilience, realigned priorities. Being stuck at home with the kids is hard. So is sending them back into the world. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Maqoma, who is of Xhosa descent, doesn’t deconstruct these rituals and codes. For This Choreographer, the Traditional Is Contemporary 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

A samurai even taught me how to commit the ritual suicide. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z

Rebuilding Ise’s shrine is a tradition relating to craftsmanship—it’s a training program and a Shinto ritual. See Why the Fashion and Architecture Worlds Are Leaping to the Defense of a Tokyo Hotel 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, when we’re no longer marking the winter solstice and full moons and what have you with communal rituals, live dance is a relatively unusual thing. Dance audiences are too caught up in the performance to be rude 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Round-Up” was filmed in slow motion — 300 frames a second — and the music doesn’t buck; it’s steady and meditative, treating the rodeo as a ritual. Sufjan Stevens Brings the Rodeo to BAM 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The noise, the spectacle, the people, the ritual of it. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

It becomes a long mantra of blissful pop hooks: practice becoming ritual, extended over a whole side of a tape. Inside the Trove of the Genre-Buster Arthur Russell 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

They all attend the group funeral at Washington National Cathedral, though no one complains that the housekeeper’s casket has been excluded from this ritzy ritual in one final act of redlining. Review | Christina McDowell’s satire ‘The Cave Dwellers’ belongs among the essential books about Washington 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Other prints in the series heap scorn on marriage and courtship rituals, Spanish social types and superstition. Goya’s ‘Los Caprichos’ Goes on View at National Arts Club 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Our predispositions, our rituals, our norms – in this case interruption and its frayed and fractious outcomes – are our habituated context. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

To see Doña Mari and Doña Lilia in the kitchen, frying eggs and checking the consomme, was a comfort offered not by bloodline but by the everyday peregrinations of habit and tiny, banal ritual. The enduring comfort of comida corrida 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The whole staff gathers on the delivery day to help, Anna Kahoe says, and there’s a fun, collaborative atmosphere in the store; the weekly ritual that has been the same for many years. 20 years later, still no knocks on GoodWood

Some of these rituals involve lighthearted and joyful traditions, such as lighting the menorah, attending midnight Mass, caroling or partying. Adele can’t fix everything: Neuroscience explains why we fight with Donald Trump-loving racist uncle 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Calling religion “an extraordinary act of imagination,” she likened the experience of working on a stage production to the rituals in a church. The Bay Citizen: Mixing Art and Religion With Anna Deavere Smith as Grace Cathedral?s Artist-in-Residence 2012-02-10T06:05:55Z

There were no rituals, no ceremonies, and very few blessings bestowed upon the end of life. Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Now in the autumn of his career, Acosta remains a dancer of nobility and consequence, even if one senses that his performance in this role has begun to shade into ritual. Giselle ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:54Z

Hers is a cinema of everyday rituals, personal histories and a knotty reckoning with the lingering effects of colonialist aggressions. Claire Denis Talks to Barry Jenkins About Director Anxiety and Expectations 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Such a look may be appropriate to an analysis of lives ironed by rules and ritual into crisp uniformity. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z

Faithful to the dramatic pacing of the dominating score, the choreography gives a strong impression of an inexorable ritual, a world without free will. Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Rites of Pina Bausch’s Past 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Horii also sees the masks as a form of control over contemporary anxieties, like some religious rituals and superstitions. Going to Burning Man? Don’t Forget to Pack a Mask 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Rabbi Kahn, 69, scanned the Haggadah, the text that guides Jews through the rituals of the Seder, into a PDF, and told everyone to email their favorite recipes for the group to share. Reinventing Easter, Passover and Other Holiday Meals in a Time of Limits 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

This whole ritual was plainly intended to be — as one of the foolishly aesthetic maidens in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera “Patience” remarks — “perceptively intense and consummately utter.” Dance Review: Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical,’ Ensembles Worshiping 2013-07-25T19:47:21Z

Dud is enchanted by the idea of the musty club, with its lingering air of secrets and rituals once kept by its members — throne rooms, inner sanctums, alchemy and pseudoscience. Review | ‘Lodge 49’ reminds us that sometimes TV shows — like life — can just be weird 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

It means guns as objects whose parts and processes can yield artworks, and a similar focus on the rituals surrounding both their safe use and their fetishization, namely the firing range. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Doyle said a central tenet of his “Exorcist” staging was to incorporate elements from the Roman Catholic Mass and other rituals of that faith. ‘The Exorcist’ on a Los Angeles Stage 2012-06-22T00:23:01Z

As one of Bobbie’s pals sings in the high-velocity “Getting Married Today”: “What’s a wedding? It’s a prehistoric ritual/ Where everybody promises fidelity forever/ Which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of.” Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a vital morning ritual and group practice: Dancing with others is a way to grow. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Line expands into shape, and the geometry turns into ritual with shades of Martha Graham. Review: Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser’s Meditation on 9/11 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Protestants, who were skeptical of many Catholic rituals, combated demonic possession with more informal practices such as impromptu prayer for the afflicted individual. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Soccer alone provided this continent-sized nation with a shared ritual and a common narrative. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

This annual ritual, generally received as a lighthearted break from presidential duties, is basically a chance for the Biden to make dad jokes. Biden pardons his first turkeys — but who will pardon his bad jokes? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

His manner of speaking acknowledges the slight comedy of his situation: a black man, holder of tragically tenuous rights, dressed to the nines and participating in the courtliest of rituals. Reviving the Memory of a Black Pioneer 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Their routines are dominated by prayer, ritual observance and obedience to Jewish law, but their world does not seem narrow and austere. Movie Review: ‘Fill the Void,’ Directed by Rama Burshtein 2013-05-23T21:43:35Z

The baccalaureate was especially striking, with readings and rituals from Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian sources. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z

Sometimes, when we were playing out our morning ritual together, she stuck out her tongue at me and giggled, grabbing every simple pleasure. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

In lieu of plot, the film accumulates rituals, traditions and memories, and charts a larger arc of familial change and rural emigration. ‘The Village House’ Review: A Family and the Walls That Enfold It 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

The process is intricate and involves modifying one’s behavior in absurd ways — the kind of ritual tailor-made for some artists. 10 Galleries to Visit in Brooklyn and Queens 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fares says that Experience Mecca was not designed as a substitute for the Hajj, but in a time of lockdown, it does offer an opportunity to connect to the ritual. For Shut-In Pilgrims, the World’s Holiest Sites Are a Click Away 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

The ritual involves transportation of souls and is accompanied by the glowing and throbbing of what looks like large-scale electronic circuitry embedded in the pyramid’s interiors. Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ a Sequel 5,000 Years in the Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Data shows that during the pandemic, more Americans began to cling to the ritual of sitting down for dinner as a household. What to cook and eat when you're in need of comfort 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

All the ritual has gone, the religious props, the collective gathering in, and grief is now banished to some remote and frosty interior Scapa Flow where we just have to tough it out alone. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

Coffee was served morning, noon and night at Frannie's house and the ritual of making it and of being with her imprinted on me a love for it that has remained throughout my life. Coffee fanatic? These simple iced coffee bars will become your new favorite breakfast or dessert 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

In “Blood & Beauty,” she creates a lush stage by providing period details of food, rituals and clothing, then uses dazzling prose to put larger-than-life characters into it. Sarah Dunant’s ‘Blood & Beauty’: tales of the Borgias 2013-07-11T21:33:10Z

Most of Ojikutu’s sculptures are at least a century old, created for performances or rituals. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Her character experiences a frightening form of dissociative identity disorder, and winds up sacrificing the family dog in a cultish ritual. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

"A completely artificial division has been made in the past between domestic and religious, recreation and ritual," Leary said. Was Marden Henge the builder's yard for Stonehenge? 2010-07-28T16:28:00Z

They hint at how both art and magic are brought to life by rituals and beliefs and that artists and occultists are not so very different. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

But Ms. Rosenblit seems equally concerned with domestic rituals inside of urban life. Review: A Choreographer Makes a Holistic Mess 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The French philosopher Michel Serres has compared ubiquitous pop-culture images of mass death, like the mushroom cloud and Sept. 11, to pagan ritual voyages to the underworld, surmising that they serve some primal human need. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In El Rocío, I found myself intoxicated by the pageantry and rituals, and by the idea that a pilgrimage can and should also be a source of revelry. Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

At the top of the mountain, the team found a “place of ritual violence,” a walled enclosure with the dressed stone facing inward. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

But the spellbinding sense of ritual that Hepfer's performance conveyed felt ultimately, if ineffably, Spanish. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

For the diaspora community, this commodity becomes a love letter, written in sun and air and earth, enveloped in history and ritual and resilience, traveling to us across great distances. Searching for Saboun Nabulsi, the olive oil soap that connects Palestinian-Americans like me to home 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

Filling Up on a Midday Bite of New York History The evening restaurant meal is an elaborate ritual in which exquisitely prepared foods are eaten in a particular order, using fine utensils in select company. Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z

"I've been part of a ritual that people around the world read about," he said. Poe fans call an end to 'Toaster' tradition 2012-01-19T12:58:10Z

Still others recall labyrinths or ziggurats, their angled embankments suggesting rituals that defy comprehension. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

I’m not sure if tourists would be so keen on seeking out Torajan death rituals if the surrounding landscape weren’t so enchanting and its architecture so impressive. In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Photos covering this era date from the 1900s to the 1930s and are grouped into chapters on monastic life and the Tsam ritual masked dances for which Erdene Zuu was famous. Photography: Bringing a Monastery Back to Life 2011-01-19T13:00:03Z

Sexual identities are ambiguous, and the atmosphere tense with obscure ritual. The Most Incredible Thing ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z

Among my friends, with all this newfound time together, fresh rituals emerged: silent breakfasts, afternoon walks capped off with chocolate macaroons, sneaking wildflowers into one another’s shoelaces while we set up for yoga. In Defense of the Three-Week Vacation 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

One day, my mother, siblings and I will be going through this ritual on our own, without my grandmother. What a Trip: Coming home to Bogota

Even as alcohol-intake declines, the social ritual of drinking, and of paying for drinks, appears here to stay. The Rise of Alcohol-Free Booze 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But the book, in its clinical presentation of objects and concepts, takes us deep into the objects of ritual brutality. Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

While the food taught me how to eat, the meal, with its customs and pocket rituals, assimilated me to the city. The enduring comfort of comida corrida 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Melding aspects of bodies, clothes and ritual objects, the D.C. artist’s site-specific installation is assembled from parts that are imprecise yet vivid. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

The Stones also played Desert Trip, the music festival and demographic ritual known as “Oldchella.” In Jazz, Listen to the Timeless Elders 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

This, too, drives my own interest in holidays and rituals, though I’m reluctant to say so aloud. My Family Celebrates All the Holidays 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

“I try to convince him to go to sleep, and part of that ritual is telling him who is asleep,” Dull told me. He’s a 6-foot-6 corrections-officer-turned-singer. And D.C.’s toddlers love him. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Thoughts of ritual arise, and also of play. Judith Scott’s Enigmatic Sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

One is a sort of mock ritual experienced in a darkened room and the other is a card game, best played in a group. Pablo Helguera: ‘Strange Oasis’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It also includes additional rituals outside of Mecca. Coronavirus fears put a halt to the Muslim pilgrimage of umrah — but not yet the hajj 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Bells were part of sacred ritual, and large bells were often rung to broadcast the Mass outside of the church. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

All of the people in this scene stop what they are doing — the minicab driver, the uniformed schoolgirls, the grandfather, even the narrator — to join in the ritual procession. Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

There are those dances, for one thing — freestyle choreographic interpretations of ancient rituals by Aztecs and Incas, as well as sambas, mambos, tangos and an Irish jig. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her makeovers are familiar rituals of transformation like those you might find in an evangelical revival. A farewell to daytime's No. 1 2011-05-25T01:09:00Z

“We are thinking of keeping it as a ritual every Sunday,” said Marion, a resident and mother. Nightly show in Swiss block helps beat lockdown blues 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

But then tasting counters came along; suddenly the rituals of captains standing at attention above white tablecloths seemed antiquated. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

SUN Celebrate the lives of mothers who have died with education, facilitated discussion, meditation and ritual, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-01T21:45:29Z

Sports fans know that halftime interviews are bizarre rituals where reporters, athletes and viewers all want it to end, yet still it happens. A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

After four decades of occupancy, and exhibitions including photos of California Jews in civil rights protests and ritual objects saved from abandoned North African synagogues, the museum is marketing its building for residential conversion. Antiques: Happy Sales: Christie?s Auctions Roy Rogers Items 2010-07-08T21:30:00Z

You need ritual times when the good talks happen.” 'Put your phone away and be in the moment': how to enjoy being a parent 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Performing the energetic “Sakakiba” Mr. Abe offered a purification ritual featuring two-footed jumps that elevated his body high into the air, as well as precise fluid turns. Dance Review: Kuromori Kagura at Japan Society 2012-10-28T21:21:54Z

It was about tapping back into rituals like this that defined his days at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, during which he saw about 80 shows. Jets and the Ritz-Carlton Replace the VW Bus for Grateful Dead Fans 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

There is more ritual at the Palio that can be easily comprehended. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a place with its own very special language, rules and rituals. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z

"Tango is a prayer, it's like a ritual," we heard. Radio review: Witness and World Routes 2010-10-11T05:45:00Z

The rescue workers are performing the same authorized rituals on behalf of industrialized death — the dominant characteristic of capitalism — that Walt, in his own hazmat suit, performs at great risk. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

An eighth-century mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath, within the complex of the future museum, offers another telling clue. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

It traces the congregation’s history, from the early black rabbis’ sermons and writings about their commitment to Jewish rituals to their followers’ persistence in the face of racism and anti-Semitism. Antiques 2012-03-29T22:27:47Z

A. I lived in a place called Arnavutkoy along the Bosporus, and I established this daily ritual where around 5 p.m., Q&A: Drinking in Istanbul and Bangkok 2013-08-27T19:16:30Z

Movement, “whether through stretching or through energy work,” creates “a sense of ritual for helping the body reset to a different time of day.” Improve Your Bedtime Routine With These Five Luxurious Tips 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Here are a few pictures of one of Europe's most beloved television rituals. Outlandish costumes, bizarre lyrics, political controversy and the occasional decent song can mean only one thing: the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest has begun 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The movie’s contempt for its Japanese characters reaches a peculiar culmination in a scene in which ritual suicide is played for laughs. Review: ‘Railroad Tigers’ Features a Resourceful Jackie Chan 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The history of Christianity is recounted variously as propaganda or “a blood sacrifice” along the lines—and I’m not making this up—of the Aztecs’ ritual practices. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The dishes chosen, how meals are organized, and the rituals of serving and eating mirror social hierarchy, and strengthen behaviors, beliefs and traditions as they are repeated. Perspective | What raising multicultural sons has taught me about food and appropriation 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

If the idea of ritual was the evening’s unspoken theme, nothing was as full of primal spirit as Mr. Morris’s “Grand Duo.” Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z

Ancient totems, inscribed in white on brown skin, signify heritage and ritual. In the galleries: A testament to Australia’s indigenous people, and to an artist 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

With roots in Central Asia, the plant is believed to have been first used medicinally — or for rituals — around 750 B.C., though there are other estimates too. What Are the Benefits of CBD? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Aida,” set in ancient Egypt, is an opera that changes registers of scale: an intimate exchange followed by a temple ritual or a triumphal march. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

And some cherished late-summer rituals will be falling by the wayside, as well. As the Toronto International Film Festival goes online, critical consensus might disappear. Good. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Talk” took a panel discussion as its form, inhabiting and deconstructing its rituals. Review: In Carl Hancock Rux’s ‘Vs.,’ the Jury Is Out 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

The rituals, the secrets, the symbolism of the church: That’s a very hard kind of nut to crack with words. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

There’s something ritual about these songs, as if Mr. Presley had been carrying them in his head, with all their details, for a long time. Playlist: CDs by People, Places & Things, and Anibal Velasquez 2010-04-30T19:54:00Z

And hence the fog, with its layers of associations — mystery, nature, ritual, disco! — belched out by assorted little black machines sourced in Germany. Welcome to Now, Courtesy of Rick Owens 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Here, ritual was at the forefront again, with a carefully choreographed opening in which the two percussionists, walking through the auditorium, dispensed resonant bell pings like scent. Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

The movie even has a brief fantasy sequence of a satanic ritual in which figures dressed in black dance around a fire. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z

Footage of 60s comedy shows, of performances and rituals punctuates the show, along with Lacey's mad robotic figures and the debris of a life lived to the full. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z

But declining to participate in an empty ritual that changes nothing is an entirely rational response, arguably more clear-eyed and realistic than investing it with meaning it does not possess. Yeah, the GOP is evil and will win — but the midterms are meaningless 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

The announcement on “The View” on Monday that Ms. Walters will leave ABC in 2014 was less a farewell than the kickoff of a drawn-out abdication ritual. The TV Watch: Barbara Walters’s Career Mirrors the Trajectory of TV 2013-05-14T01:27:11Z

Rhythm, music, formation and body language kept changing, and so did the sense of both ritual and charm. A Pan-American Dance Sampler at the Joyce 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

He regularly displayed a complete lack of patience for the phony rituals of talk show convention. David Letterman’s brilliant vulnerability: He has always been “naked and afraid” behind that trademark smirk 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

And my parents were distracted by inventing new traditions and rituals for us to embrace. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

It has become a primary-season ritual for Wallace, a fixture at Fox News for more than a decade, to challenge and goad the packed roster of Republican candidates. Chris Wallace, moderator of the first GOP debate, plans ‘some doozies’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Beacon’s Closet, the used-clothing emporium with several locations in New York City, is a site of ritual humiliation. The Marie Kondo Effect Reaches Beacon’s Closet 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

And the service was characterized by too much ritual servility for my liking. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z

For two seconds it looks like a pagan ritual. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z

But the power of ritual that is depicted on stage, and which sustains this raggle-taggle crowd of grail knights in dusty fatigues, is blissfully much less specific. Parsifal ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:26Z

The ritual began in 2005, when Starr was asked what he wanted for his 65th birthday. Ringo Starr to mark 75th birthday outside Capitol Records in Hollywood 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Part of the ritual of a Perlman concert is the way in which he enters the hall. Itzhak Perlman with the L.A. Phil: Emphasizing the classic in classical 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

First, we asked 20 people to tell us about their routines and rituals around the HBO show – all through self-recorded video. Game of Thrones Research: Can 18 Million Viewers Be Niche? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

There’s no getting around the fact that classical music is built on ritual and restraint and ceremony. Caroline Shaw piano concerto premiere turns classical tradition on its head 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In his recent book, “The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present,” the philosopher Byung-Chul Han writes that rituals “are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable.” Before They Closed, Restaurants Opened Doors for Us 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

She wanted a more normal relationship with her parents, freedom instead of ritual and constraints. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Common themes connect the other stories to these linked ones: absent fathers, infidelity, a trembling line between the hyper-sanity of daily ritual and the tilt into madness. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

There's something calming about the drying process, too — you quite literally have to slow down and be patient — and you can easily create your own drying tools to make this ritual even more special. Dry your own herbs and you'll never have to buy bottled ones again 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

I like the ritual: the clatter of cubes dropping into the glass; measuring the liquid and tipping it in. Perspective | I drank every day. What kind of effect was it having on my kids? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The ritual incorporates yams, pumpkin seeds and other elements that are symbolic of unifying couples. A Destination Wedding With Cultural Significance 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

All body noises and hygiene rituals get rushed discreetly into locked, soundproof bathrooms? Boyfriend more interested in thrill of pursuit 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

These changeover rituals for the last TV news celebrities are well-established, though rarely executed without slights. Norah O’Donnell named anchor as new CBS News president Susan Zirinsky announces shake-up 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The nightly ritual of sleep meant rounding everyone up, checking the room for rats and bugs, and blowing out a candle. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And at a half-dozen places like Brasserie Beaumarchais, Champagne brunches and other louche rituals from the French Riviera have crashed ashore. French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z

In it, the Asiatic god Dionysos announces that he has returned to his birthplace, Thebes, aiming “to make myself known:/ my rituals, my dances, my religion, my livewire self.” Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

At first, the ritual involved mere laughing and hooting. Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z

Maybe, if they're appropriate, we fold these songs into the funeral ritual. The music we choose at funerals reveals much about our loved ones 2013-06-18T13:22:53Z

The one limit on cameras at Elizabeth’s coronation was to deny them a view of the ritual anointment of the new queen. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Moriah Galleries, one of Manhattan’s oldest purveyors of Jewish ritual objects and art, has closed after six decades and sold its inventory to one of the newest Judaica stores in New York, Menorah Galleries. Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

One imaginative travel hack suggests you can trick your body into thinking it’s bedtime by performing the nightly ritual of going to the lavatory to brush your teeth or gargle. He was dreading his 13-hour flight. So he asked experts for some tips. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The ritual, he says, infuses calm into the day ahead. Architecture: Wang Shu of China Advocates Sustainable Architecture 2012-08-09T15:29:52Z

Walt’s ritual shaving is one of his highly deliberate decisions that, for better or worse, he sees through to the end. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z

Without them and what they make, crops could not be cultivated, wars waged, homes protected, rituals performed. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z

Some will be new to viewers; others are still being completed, and all have a background influenced by Jewish ritual objects. Inside Art: Kehinde Wiley?s ?Alios Itzhak? at Jewish Museum 2011-09-15T22:18:21Z

He began the match regaling us with a couple of tales, like the time he said O. J. Simpson popped by backstage before a jump, curious about Evel’s ritual before a feat. Matt Walsh: The First Time I Was Hustled (by Evel Knievel) 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The poem, which describes the chance encounter of four strangers in a New York bar one evening during the second world war, is held together by a compelling mixture of ritual and naturalistic detail. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z

I stopped eating meat at the age of eight, after seeing my grandmother killing a hen in the ritual Muslim way. Why being a vegetarian traveller is often so hard to swallow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Like a ritual sculpture from the Congo — an African nkisi nkondi, or traditional nail fetish — the assemblage is an ode to music as an inner life force, painful yet potent. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Rites of passage remain family occasions where food and ritual secure us within our culture. The Biggest Feasts Ever 2010-06-29T21:20:00Z

There was always this ritual of the family meal. Ana Sofia Peláez: “Food is a way of telling our history” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

I’m reminded of nature’s delightful courtship rituals, like that of the bird of paradise, who clears a little spot of forest floor, fluffs his bright-colored feathers and busts a jaunty little move for the ladies. D. J.s, Swim Briefs, $25 Coladas: In Vegas, the Party’s at the Pool 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Easy; it only sounds like a hazing ritual. 13 of Seattle's top entertainment picks for May 6-12, 2012 2012-05-04T03:18:09Z

For every 10 boys they used to take in, three would survive their initiation rituals. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Carter, who is 6-5, bearded and the sort of man who wears a denim shirt and a ball cap with his peach shorts, begins a four-hour grooming ritual. Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club, he played an electrifying solo on a trio of bata drums, the goblet-shaped instruments used in Santería rituals. Rumba artist Pedrito Martinez gets the party started at Kennedy Center Jazz Club

It's the distant future, mankind has disappeared and the robots have been charged with enacting "an ordained ritual" so as to learn more about the vanished beings that created them. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z

Afterward, she told me, examining the rituals surrounding death in Mexico became a form of therapy. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The supply of objects that met Western requirements of value — age, evidence of ritual use, beauty of a kind that fit modernist criteria — came to an end. Under Threat: The Shock of the Old 2011-04-15T02:50:03Z

In one story as the singer Nona Hendryx intoned words from Buddhist ritual, the percussionists suddenly produced a magical, shimmering tingle on triangles. Music Review: Phil Kline’s ‘dreamcitynine’ at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012-08-05T21:31:18Z

Eating together, for example, also creates a bond, which is one reason why “breaking bread” with a stranger is often considered an especially important ritual among many cultures. We’re wired to sing 2012-07-07T19:00:00Z

And only weeks prior, Lucky Air reportedly announced its intentions to press charges against a passenger who threw coins at a plane’s engine as part of a superstitious ritual. Another airline passenger tosses coins at plane for good luck, gets whole flight delayed 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Decanting these is not necessary, but it will not hurt if you enjoy the ritual. A French Bistro Favorite to Drink This Month 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Born in California, Ms. Woodley, 27, prefers her beauty products natural, meditates every single day and practices wellness rituals even in her hotel room. Why Shailene Woodley Is Taking Ice Baths in Her Hotel Room 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

The relentless rituals and conventions of the daily traffic through Heathrow have been subverted to other ends. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z

The other film that kept returning to me was Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, centred as it is on the absurd rituals of a group of middle-class people. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

His preoccupation with how male bodies “perform within certain rituals and coded activities” was inspired by female artists like Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper and Patty Chang, who questioned value systems around gender. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

In the opening chorus, the people voice their fears of the sea while singing rituals to chase away evil spirits. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

In Panama, for example, some people engage in annual rituals that turn the tables on the Spanish colonists' use of "evil" to suppress rebellion. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

It is manifested in a brutal ritual: Each night, Ndiaye sneaks away under darkness to kill a “blue-eyed enemy” soldier from the German line and brings back his severed hand. In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

She maintained material simplicity but channeled it into oversized, pointedly handmade objects that evoked people carrying out rituals or at play. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The notion that fitness is a religion – a place where people find community, ritual and ecstatic experience – has become a common refrain. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

It explores his fascination with the small rituals of domestic life, zooming in on the corner of his kitchen where scraps of food are collected each day. Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z

Thank goodness for the summer break, when the ritual back-slapping briefly stops. Olivier awards nominations: the ones that got away 2013-03-26T14:10:37Z

“I prefer the ritual of the theater to the ritual of the hedge fund,” he added. Plans for Volksbühne Theater Cause Worry About Berlin’s Artistic Direction 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

In the season finale of this sketch comedy series, the many characters portrayed by “Broad City” alum Arturo Castro tackle everything from diversity and identity to baseball batting rituals and niche Netflix shows. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Pose’ and ‘Alternatino with Arturo Castro’ 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

A video screen showed mysteriously costumed people doing mysterious things; the rhythms, decisively underlined by live drumming from Michael Italia, were dreamy processionals or allusions to kinetic trance rituals. Music Review: ‘Purity Ring’ at Webster Hall 2013-01-13T21:06:29Z

Following Bapela’s daily labor, uncovering her past trauma, and exploring her aspirations to be an actor herself, the film uses different lenses, including a fisheye, to reveal the rituals and rules that govern Bapela’s life. At the BlackStar Film Festival, a Revelatory Understanding of Cinema 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The tired truism that classical music is a universal language gets trotted out, like a dusty diplomatic ritual, for such occasions. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

His interest has always been in the ritual roots and mythical resonances of the theater, and the idea of acting he articulates in “The Tightrope” has a primal, even mystical tenor. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z

These patterns nest within a complex overall design that appears figurative or abstract but always expresses ceremonial ritual based in ancient tradition. Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

And of course it wasn’t just the setting and the freshness of the fish that made each meal special, but also the long-lived ritual that brought it to us. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Other pieces are even more generic, especially some dozen 19-inch red earth spheres that conjure viruses, soccer balls and ritual objects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Even dressing for the occasion was steeped in ritual. From bull ring to taxi rank: Spain's moonlighting matadors 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

For the six years I lived in Amsterdam I had a weekly ritual that revolved around herring. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z

“You can create something that’s about you and your family and the ritual of it saved me, in so many ways,” says Jane. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

But on this night he was deeply affecting as Wagner’s clueless youth, who chances upon the sanctuary of the desolate knights of the Holy Grail and is baffled by their sacred rituals. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

He avoids nearly all the rituals of literary celebrity, restricting his promotional efforts to the occasional interview and a single appearance per year at a literary festival. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

The title, “Spirit Movers,” is a nod to this idea that art works aren’t static but are dynamic entities connected to ritual, devotion and collective experience. Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

The show, which spans 1,200 years, is organized geographically, highlighting the dissemination and evolution of tea ritual and style. The Norton Museum Exhibits Exquisite Tea Services from Around the World 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Intrigue may lead a story, but for Wolitzer the daily rituals of family always carry it. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Themes of displacement, or ritual or spiritual search, play second fiddle to the force of the photography, around which swirl experimental jams, a folk tale told in voice-over and talismanic bits of dialogue. Movie Review : ‘Kuichisan’: Experimental Jams and Talismanic Dialogue 2013-06-20T22:47:36Z

But the band’s tracks build their bones through ritual real-time repetition. Trey Songz, OOIOO and Rubén Blades Release New Music 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

When Shia LaBeouf was caught plagiarizing another artist, he launched a performance art piece called #IAmSorry as a statement on the ritual of celebrity apologies. Not another weak celebrity apology: This hollow public ritual desperately needs an overhaul 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

It is, as I say, an existential ritual. Why voter ID is wrong 2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

The program notes suggest that "Compos Mentis" seeks to address "mysteries of the mind and the universe" through the use of rituals and routines that range from "the benign to the extreme." Manifold Motion's 'Compos Mentis': a little too spacey 2012-03-20T18:45:04Z

What have you gleaned of other countries’ dating rituals? The Art of the ‘Vacationship’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

After suffering through a few hazing rituals, he is inducted into the upper level of the gang. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Britten’s stage directions intend “Curlew” to be a medieval Christian ritual. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z

Performing in Washington has also been an ongoing ritual for Lewis; Blues Alley has booked him every six months for many years. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Local police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the goings-on, and while precise details aren’t yet known, sources told NJ.com the investigations are related to a hazing ritual that “went too far.” New Jersey High School Cancels Football Season Amid Hazing and Bullying Investigation 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The ritual maintains its shape, even if it sounds a little different. Beatlemaniacs, Beliebers, Directioners — why do they scream?

Their rituals draw primarily from pre-Christian Europe but often are aimed at supporting the activism of indigenous landholders. The Ultimate Guide to This Fabulous Summer 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

This unique ritual, mixing Catholic and local culture, hits a sweet spot with many pilgrims from around the country and abroad. Thousands of Bolivian Catholics break rocks to change fortunes 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

But you also gain a kind of ecstatic anthropological insight into rituals that are both banal and outlandish, and an initiation into the mysteries of human psychology. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

A critic attends the Academy Awards ceremony for the first time and finds a ritual meant to sustain the romance that the business of movies isn’t exclusively about product. The Oscars 2010-12-31T20:00:30Z

This ritual is ultimately what led me to “The White Tiger.” Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Week: Fireside Chats and ‘Bridgerton’ Episodes 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

But the hapless warrior hero of a new Japanese samurai comedy film must succeed with his humor or pay the ultimate price -- by committing ritual suicide. Laughter or ritual suicide in Japan samurai comedy 2011-06-08T17:55:35Z

Within that first year, Ferguson was weaning himself from the joke-driven monologue, a ritual of late-night talk shows that occupies a great amount of time and effort on the part of the show’s writers. A last ‘Late Late Show’ from fearlessly funny Craig Ferguson 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

One of the highlights of the group is a li, or ritual tripod vessel, used for cooking grains or meat. Inside Art : Los Angeles Museum Buys Andreas Gursky Works 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

This was a ritual celebration of these brave women. Dance Review: Nimbaya! Drummers From Guinea, at Symphony Space 2012-03-27T22:43:36Z

Until now, eating in groups has been a universal human ritual. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Sam, the bloodthirsty tribe zeros in on her apple-cheeked purity, choosing her as the vessel for their infernal ritual. ‘Satanic Panic’ Review: A Pizza Party for the Prince of Darkness 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The runners practice a hodgepodge of Indigenous rituals along the way. Running Thousands of Miles in Search of Yourself 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

The ritual of placing an LP on a turntable and cranking up a hi-fi home stereo disappeared — when? Arts & Leisure: The Cloud That Ate Your Music 2011-06-22T12:20:18Z

The ritual is practiced by communities across a swathe of African countries and pockets of the Middle East and Asia. Popular British TV drama to feature female genital mutilation plotline 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

But the story kept dwindling into ritual and then into routine. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival and Battery Dance Company 2012-08-12T22:01:26Z

With needles, you don’t only become addicted to the drug but to the whole ritual of shooting up. When I became a junkie 2012-11-14T21:48:00Z

As the moon brightened above, the sense rose that we were taking part in a terrifying pagan ritual. In Between Time – review 2013-02-19T18:00:55Z

The infamous tabletop role-playing game became a household name when “satanic panic” — a general fear of satanic ritual abuse that caught fire nationwide in the 1980s — began to take root in the suburbs. Who’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons These Days? The Usual Fans, and Then Some. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

Others have sought relief through nonclinical means: by creating new rituals and immersing themselves in new social settings, where conversation and connection can lead to new realizations. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Various commentators are acting like a surprise -- at this point, it's more like a ritual. Winners and losers of today's Oscar noms 2011-01-25T17:20:00Z

The origin stories where Marvel heroes discover their powers often resemble initiation rituals found around the world. "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Unlike those who see the ritual attachment to groups of athletes in matching uniforms as a sign of mental deficit, Zirin insists that within every sports fan there exists a rational kernel. How owners are ruining the games we love 2012-07-23T19:22:00Z

Brandishing his medal of St. Jude -- the patron saint of lost causes -- Ethan somehow channels an exorcism ritual in Latin. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Vanessa in throes of demonic possession 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Part of a sturdy genre of web-based horror, the movie turns the familiar rituals and hacks of online life into a source of dread. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

I’d always found it hard not to tear up when participating in ritual, from weddings and funeral processions to the singing of anthems and old songs. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Scriptures historically were infused with contradiction and mystery, intertwined with ritual and music, to offer glimpses of deep truths and often to promote ethical behavior. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Riding it is a ritual that feels like stepping back in time, which is at least half the point of visiting a theme park as an adult. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

Yet “A Song of Songs” possesses a surprising ritual power. Review: ‘A Song of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

The surrealist and anthropologist in Buñuel was fascinated by the ritual of the dinner party: without a host, this social event resembles humanity frantically inventing intricate rules for itself in the absence of God. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – review 2012-06-28T21:50:01Z

Sometimes this offering takes shape as a dance, or what Emory calls a “bathing ritual”: a series of swiping, folding, reaching gestures performed over the mannequin’s supine body. A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“It is this simple ritual that works nearly every time,” he says. Want to minimize jet lag? Here’s what the doctors order. 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a secular world, thoroughly present-minded, yet with versions of earlier thinking and even rituals still intact. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But this playful homage to Washington might be seen as something more serious: a protest or sacred ritual in which unilateral power is equalized, quietly, via a simple artistic gesture art. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Some cynics will regard these rituals as proof of the frequently alleged tendency of theatrical people towards excessive sentimentality. The final curtain: how best to bid farewell to much-loved actors? 2013-04-08T14:07:11Z

What is the equivalent ritual for a young man who now towers over me? Motherlode Blog: Saying Goodbye to a New College Student 2011-08-22T19:53:04Z

Some stations have more recently pushed back against lengthy, on-air pledge drives, but the ritual remains stubbornly popular, bringing in new subscribers while selling out DVDs of “Aging Backward 3.” ‘Elmo Knows Where You Live’: A History of the PBS Pledge Drive 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

His Sunday morning ritual was cutting them into little pieces and frying them crisp and then folding them into an omelette. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z

The adjacent video finds Ms. Chang performing another ritual cleansing, this time scrubbing the rusted hull of a big commercial ship. A Bold Explorer Surfaces in ‘Wandering Lake’ 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

And this is the year when the kids don't complete their ritual "slaying" of the Ripper. 'My Soul to Take': Has Wes Craven finally lost his mind? 2010-10-08T21:59:00Z

“Small things, I mean. The rituals of a day. The hours.” With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Then it set to work on its performance ritual, its relationship with audiences. Music Review: McCoy Tyner Helps Claim a Corner of a Harlem Park for Jazz 2010-08-29T22:37:00Z

In response to the spareness of the medieval architecture at the Cloisters she developed a pared-down palette of steps suggesting ritual, but no specific spiritual tradition. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ceremony, custom, tradition, and ritual no longer count for what they once did, which is, perhaps, one reason that finding a passionate demonstration of them is so moving. A Dance for the Dead 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Earlier, she had gone through the ritual of the photoshoot with quiet good humour. Portishead 2011-07-16T23:04:05Z

Music plays an enormous role in British royal ceremonies, particularly funerals, like Queen Elizabeth II’s on Sept. 19, which function as both state and religious rituals. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Dark Is Rising is a Christmas ritual for me. Darkness in literature: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper 2012-12-25T00:30:01Z

To get rid of this hatred in my heart, I’ve journaled, exercised, performed rituals, even tried to meditate and picture her as a small child. I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Every day, she is at the barre, going through the rituals,” said Angela Sham, director and owner of the ballet school. At 78, this ballerina is still going strong: ‘It’s never too late to do something you love’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

O’Neil gives the example of Hopi “shame clowns,” who poke fun at transgressors in a ritual that offers “ridicule and then redemption.” The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

That may mean mummifying an old car Egyptian style using plastic bags instead of fabric, which Jay Critchley has done as a quasi-magical ritual in the Freight + Volume gallery. Art in Review: CHAD PERSON: ?A Hero Never Fails? 2011-08-18T20:45:26Z

Pruitt paints each piece in the morning, devoting 40 odd minutes to the practice, which he likens to a yoga ritual. Rob Pruitt Has Painted Portraits of Barack Obama Every Day Since 2009 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Still, since Scanlan isn’t Muslim, the filmmaker had to ensure she was equipped to respectfully portray a woman of faith whose existence centers on ritual. Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the sequence, danced on point with an acrobatic performance by Young Gyu Choi, is an interpretation of a mesmerizing Indonesian ritual as seen through Western eyes. The Mysterious Mata Hari, in Dance 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

With spells for everything from establishing boundaries to making peace with your body, the practical mantras and rituals in “Basic Witches” help banish toxic vibes and summon the sorcery to lead an empowered life. 13 new Halloween reads to chill, amuse, inform and terrify 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

“But qatayef are this ritual that brings everyone in the community together.” The Dessert That Tastes Best One Month Out of Every Year 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

O. Scott, a film critic for The Times, in an essay noting that Oscar season shares this time of the year with a “less-heralded seasonal ritual: the spectacle of great actors appearing in bad movies.” ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Good Actors in Bad Movies, 'The Book of Mormon' and More 2011-02-18T20:57:58Z

In it she explores her Polish roots; it is a somber, mysterious work that hints at ritual. Dance Review: Works by David Parsons and Katarzyna Skarpetowska 2013-01-16T18:51:10Z

And given that those pre-game rituals often involve music, the product being sold — Beats by Dre — makes as much sense as Neymar striking a beautiful ball through the heart of an impenetrable defense. World Cup 2014: Spike Lee, Fernando Meirelles get their game on 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But a sense of ritual comes from consistency and expectation, not magazine-worthy perfection. Perspective | Taking back the family dinner: How we created a mealtime renaissance 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

By now we’re accustomed to the notion, or should be, that art created for ritual use, as much Balinese art is, loses a vital part of its meaning in an institutional setting. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z

I revealed my nightly ritual to no one until the day my excellent Grandpa Sal asked, “Have you seen this guy Letterman? He’s great.” Jimmy Kimmel: Watching David Letterman "Was More Important Than Sleep" 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Nightlifers center their existence around that ritual communion, and for the past 10 days, musicians have been hustling to re-create it in digital space. Perspective | This is what our nightlife sounds like in a pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

There are show rituals — notably line dancing during "Treat People with Kindness" and conga lines — and elevated banter. How Harry Styles became an even bigger star – and the one we needed the most – in 2022 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

In the first of two performances on Saturday, Mr. de Leeuw played the piece, a half-hour long, with suitably inscrutable expression as Ms. Hannigan mimed a sort of funereal ritual around it. Review: Barbara Hannigan’s Legend Grows in an Intimate Setting 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

The “director in me” decided he needed a ritual way to bring closure to his time at the theater. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

In no other post-slavery society did lynching emerge as a festive public ritual. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Haroseth, the fruit paste that evokes the bricks and mortar used by Jewish slaves in the Passover narrative of the Old Testament, is part of every Seder ritual. A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Eager for attention and perfectly made up after her hourlong beauty ritual, she would giggle bashfully when truckers looked her way. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z

The work plays on the popular “kandi” bead exchange culture of modern raves, in which attendees perform ritual hand gestures and trade beaded bracelets and necklaces as symbols of good will. A Selection of Summer Music Festivals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The mother and daughter, their differences, similarities, tenderness and love are the story, which Hogg fills in with chatter, reminiscences, precise details, private rituals and lingering looks. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

He fashions it beyond recognition, building it up into elaborate icons, altars, and ritual objects reminiscent of the church of his youth. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

When things are downright poisonous, you can’t help but seek some kind of humanity, the ordinary charm of a group of voters—amateurs unprepared for their TV cameos—trying to get through their rituals. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Summer TV is nothing but a slew of lowered expectations, evidenced in the sudden breakout of game shows and talent competitions and the annual ritual of digging into “The Bachelorette.” Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Second, no prayers or other religious rituals were offered. This Life: Mourning in the Age of Facebook 2012-01-13T20:33:15Z

For others, the slaughter is an act made in honor of a birth in the family or a ritual marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Sustainable halal meat is making inroads in Muslim communities 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

I was very young but understood the rituals of the church, food, domesticity, and behavior in my family. Why I'm sheltering my kids for as long as I can 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Since Ms. McNamara’s death, Mr. Oswalt has made it a ritual to sit with his daughter every night and write down three things they remember about her. Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

It benefits from a more mysterious topic — Brazilian divination rituals — but fails to elucidate it. Review: DanceBrazil Offers a Middle Passage Lesson at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

For Poussin, it is humanised through ritual: the dying person is not alone but supported by a community.• Turner prize: too respectable? 2012-09-28T12:23:05Z

A conjuring magician, he performs a brief variety of self-lacerating rituals in slow motion, such as injecting a vein with soda pop as if it were an addictive narcotic. Alex Da Corte set Pop aflame at Art + Practice 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

So already it had a sacred feel — theater as a sacred ritual, which was really cool, instead of being like, this has to be entertaining and funny all the time. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z

“I no longer made any pretense of drinking to bond with the men, or to blunt the cares of the day, or to participate in male rituals,” Moehringer writes. ‘The Tender Bar’: A Tale of Drinking That Ducks Alcoholism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

He became a mendicant and began wandering India, and was “driven mad with mental agonies” over what he encountered: ritual, poverty, disease. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Hattie is moved by ballet’s ritual intensity, by its mastered modes of movement, all those birdlike bones and the hydraulic lifting. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, one of the ritual functions of restaurants is to make a common place for commonplace civilization to proceed. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

I thought the Holy Ghost was telling me these rituals with some sort of positive result on the other end of them. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

This woman was in the homestretch of a 10-day juice fast that sounded a lot like ritual starvation. The Age of Purification 2011-05-20T22:30:36Z

He brilliantly brings Beckett's broken poetry to life – and death – conveying the anxiety of age, its ritual deliberations, its stricken incompetence. Krapp's Last Tape: Duchess, London 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Stroman has a ritual to ensure her ongoing connection to this life force. In ‘Little Dancer,’ Susan Stroman shows the art of perseverance

It’s odd that we’ve codified this behavior, turned it into a part of the ritual just like football and trampling strangers to death before dawn the next day for a cheap DVD player. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that a company founded on these rituals would go on to mistreat women employees and runners. Reading All the Books on Nike, Déjà Vu Sets In 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

It seemed like a really cozy ritual, one I was thinking about recently after I stumbled upon a few 3.5-inch Lodge cast iron skillets at a resale store. Skillet cookies: An ode to the star of the '90s chain restaurant menu 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

He also noted that, unlike the funeral rituals we had seen earlier, only a small percentage of Torajans still bury babies this way. In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Then again, the festival of Hanukkah demands the performance of fewer religious rituals than most other Jewish observances. What Hanukkah’s portrayal in pop culture means to American Jews 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

It became a weekly ritual for her and her daughter, who are both lactose intolerant. Think tofu is tasteless? You probably haven't tried the small-batch stuff 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Don Magnifico celebrates his appointment as Royal Butler by a ritual tasting of the Prince's wines. Glyndebourne 2012 - La Cenerentola synopsis 2012-06-18T13:49:33Z

Hahn, a 20-something from Bern in Switzerland now living in Canada, turns everything he touches into a sacred ritual. New band of the day – Cyril Hahn (No 1,470) 2013-03-13T16:02:06Z

Yet somehow this works as a group ritual. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z

Mukasonga recounts these rituals — of sisterhood and maternity — because she yearns for them, but also because Tutsi women were targeted in the massacre — and explicitly for their life-giving powers. ‘The Barefoot Woman’ Keeps a Mother’s Memory Alive 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The communal, festive ritual at the end of the working day is a male tradition stretching back years. Poem of the week: Legacies by Peter Sirr 2012-07-16T10:02:27Z

The two spend their days subsistence farming, or engaged in deep prayer and sacred rituals. ‘Luzifer’ Review: Finding the Devil in Everything 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Much like any other state, Yugoslavia trained its citizens by way of public rituals to be patriots, taught them to be enthusiastically obedient. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

A trusty New York ritual now in its 27th year, this free festival attracts overflow crowds to public parks throughout Harlem and the East Village. Afropunk and 8 Other Outdoor Concerts to Put on the Calendar 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

In fact, one of the implicit themes of this book is how death rituals are altered by our highly mobile, global existences. 'Making an Exit': how the living bury the dead 2011-11-09T22:25:03Z

That evening’s offerings included a sound bath, a guided meditation, a candle-lighting ritual and an invitation to interact with an art installation in the center of the dance floor. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

And there are enigmatic ancient writings and rituals that speak to the nature of God and existence itself. Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

There will be no recitation of the Torah, no hunting expedition, no ritual tattooing, no weeklong sweat with hallucinogenic beverages. Motherlode Blog: Creating a Coming-of-Age Ritual 2012-07-18T13:55:46Z

But the show does, he says, “translate American pragmatism into a murky universe, full of bureaucratic rituals, secular and smoky habits that dominate in the Vatican.” Puffing pontiff: The Young Pope's Oscar-winning director on Jude Law, sex and cigarettes 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the real value in “Sharknado” is to become an annual cleansing ritual of our tackiest impulses? Syfy’s ‘Sharknado 3’ tears through D.C., smelling too strongly of dead fish 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

In his 2010 staging of the “Matthew Passion” here, Mr. Sellars showed a keen understanding of the status of these works as rituals rather than operas. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z

Or take Uninvited Guests' Make Better Please, soon to arrive at Newcastle's Northern Stage, a tongue-in-cheek shamanic ritual to heal a broken world. How political theatre changed its tune 2012-06-06T14:53:19Z

The book covers how to host everything from an afternoon tea to an overnight camping trip, complete with recipes, party tips and the history behind British rituals such as Bonfire and Burns Night. For Pippa Middleton, the Media’s Love Sours 2013-07-24T21:31:22Z

In the theater the audience and the actors occupy the same space, which in this case means that the spectators are complicit in the ritual scourging taking place onstage. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z

That’s opportune because tea, as the name indicates, is at the center of the ritual. What does Mom want for Mother’s Day? Tea, nibbles — and time with you. 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

And he was gratified to find that when he played his Gullah recordings for Candomblé practitioners, they recognized phrases from their rituals. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

By preserving the ritual objects of this centuries-old society, the two men created an archive that goes far beyond tribal clothing. The Curious Beauty of Berber Jewelry 2014-04-14T05:51:36Z

One of my happiest rituals was to visit the Brancacci Chapel and look with wonder at Masaccio's depiction of Adam and Eve's expulsion from paradise. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z

A cornerstone of Santería religious ceremonies, batá drumming is a hypercompetitive ritual among men, judged on speed and memory; women are widely regarded as lacking the physical stamina for the instrument. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

“I am and always have been embarrassed by all social rituals that require me to participate in a predetermined script,” she writes. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

The first “Purge” movie focused on the psychological and ethical effects of the annual ritual. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

As for the ritual of carving at the table, it’s not something we normally do. Behind the ancient foods that made thanksgiving 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Cut to another initiation ritual, this time at a Harvard social club where a secret panel unlocks the door. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

That unhappy ending is commemorated by Paul’s ritual scattering of his father’s ashes on the grapes at harvest time. Movie Review: ‘You Will Be My Son’ Counters Mortality With Planning 2013-08-15T22:52:28Z

Had I not seen this ritual play out in person, I can assure you I would have been skeptical. The Shaman of Instagram 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Hahn is great in a sultry number that breaks down the Jewish grief ritual: “You can’t run away from your sadness, it’ll always find you,” she sings. Review | ‘Transparent’s’ musical finale is a weird — but occasionally wonderful — way to go 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Twenty-four years ago, the Classical Dance Company of Cambodia astounded audiences at the Los Angeles Festival with its ritual dances and stories of fantastical demons and mythical goddesses. Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Yang had long been interested in rituals in which some Korean shamans decorate ritual sites and interact with spirits. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The ritual press day with cast and crew, just announced on Tuesday, is taking place a week after the premiere. Review: ‘Dr. Brain,’ Your New South Korean TV Crush 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Many looks were accessorized by personal fog machines, swung like ritual thuribles, emitting puffs of smoke into the air, blurring the edges. The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Cave’s art turns on performance, communion through ritual and shared grief. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

What is unique about the mariachi band members, many of them said in interviews, is how much their music became part of the ritual of passing for a population particularly affected by the pandemic. Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Ibsen, Chekhov, Goldsmith, Strindberg and Schiller all received medical training, and you could argue that both disciplines involve careful performance rituals and a degree of flamboyant mystification. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z

Among the diverse joys embraced are misplaced apostrophes, coffee drinking rituals, belly-slapping in the shower, the specifics of biscuits in Mike Leigh films, and an erotic passage on sharpening pencils. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

Among the many rituals beloved by Phish fans, the hardest to transplant to New York is the tailgate party, given the lack of outdoor parking attached to Madison Square Garden. Phish Fans Flock to New York for 13-Concert Marathon 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Others tried mixtures of ritual and desperation, which Spinney describes with a novelist’s eye: In Odessa, Russia, the community held a “black wedding” between beggars to defend against the disease. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

As anthropologist Bobby Alexander explains, rituals are actions that transform people’s everyday lives. What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

"This is the way" is the oft-repeated mantra of the show, but it applies to multiple rituals, so many ways. Is Mandalore actually Appalachia? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Then, there are the rituals, which Valentín argues are rooted in our supernatural leanings. Seeing God's wrath in the hurricanes 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

But that ritual largely ended after logging polluted streams in the early 20th century. Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

The tour ends in what remains of the original speakeasy bar, where I could have sampled absinthe served traditionally — a ritual involving a special glass and spoon and a sugar cube. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Bygone glories rehashed with a touch of self-awareness — these are the rituals for many an aging rocker nearing the end of his career. Rick Springfield can rock a sci-fi novel too 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Echols and Ms. Davis saw this as evidence that their rituals had worked. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The most important of these rituals is a ceremony called “sealing,” in which family relationships are made eternal. Mormons confront a history of Church racism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Piper Chapman When Orange Is the New Black began, Piper was our Wasp-y entry point into Litchfield penitentiary: a timid outsider struggling to learn the rules and rituals of a women’s prison. Orange Is the New Black: season three refresher course 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

I was born with a brain that likes to run around in circles and chew its own tail, an obsessive-compulsive sponge that retreated into superstitions and rituals at a very young age. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z

They asked me to accompany them on their evening ritual: walking downtown for bubble tea. In California, these minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to the next level 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Examines the inner workings of an arcane society in which winners are losers, excrement is extolled, decorum is debased, and a homosexual horse-breeding ritual is conducted annually. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick!

“The ritual of formality has adapted to the changing palates of younger and more worldly travelers who want the choice of eating in a casual setting,” he said. Now Serving Comfortable and Casual 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Yet, on thanksgiving, we all strive to enjoy the ritual of the American meal, together. Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Through exorcism rituals, a Catholic priest freed Doe of his demons. A live exorcism will be performed on TV Friday. Here’s what to expect. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Basically he behaved as if every aspect, ritual and protocol of art and the art world was available for manipulation. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z

The eating disorder voice is relentless, obsessing about calories, weight, activity levels and specific food rituals that I must carry out in order to eat. Perspective | It’s dangerous to ignore eating disorders in men. I know why firsthand. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Exit through the gift shop to replay the ritual. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

Viewers are put in the unexpected position of being archaeologists confronting the distant rituals of some lost civilization: Can those folks really be doing what they seem to be doing? "May Contain Explicit Imagery" at CB1 Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Uniquely, according to Eleanor Ghey, the archaeologist studying the find, chaff was found mixed with the coins, suggesting a ritual offering of food and money. X-rays reveal secrets of Roman coins 2012-07-09T14:24:04Z

No one talks about the rituals at those events. Edith Wharton?s World, Recast for ?Gossip Girl? 2011-03-02T22:22:52Z

Mr. Crumb arranged fragments of those poems into five songs and two interludes that are something between a Bach cantata and an exotic ritual. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

It’s a keenly observed account of the vocation handed down to Mr. Rebanks from his father and grandfather and their ancestors before them, and the seasonal rhythms and rituals that define life on a farm. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Some feature monsters, lynchings and strange rituals; others show scenes of justice and retribution — although the anarchic atmosphere suggests sham justice. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Moshers shoved and heaved their bodies against one another in an aggressive ritual toeing the line between dance and violence. 70 minutes at Astroworld: A countdown to catastrophe 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Throughout his youth, Schulz and his father shared a Sunday-morning ritual of reading the "funny papers," or comic-strip section of the local newspaper. Treasures: Should this sketch by Charles M. Schulz be insured? 2011-02-02T00:26:44Z

The playwright Aleshea Harris’s new work — a synthesis of dialogue, monologue and participatory celebration — performs its final rituals. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Working as a journalist in conflict zones in Sudan and elsewhere helped me manage my emotions at trying times, including when I helped prepare my father’s body for ritual washing, prayers, and burial. Sudan’s Uprising, Bashir’s Fall, and my Father’s Passing 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

A Druid ritual can take place anywhere, although outdoors is preferable, because a hearth must burn at the center of the assembly. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Daley, 27, was among the many of us who turned to craft in the early days of the pandemic as a tactile balm for anxious times and a replacement for disrupted rituals. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Yet despite her absurd quagmire, Winnie is a trouper, discharging her daily rituals between the clanging of a bell that wakes her up and orders her to sleep. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z

Their morning coffee ritual is another opportunity to connect. How Married ‘Bachelor’ Couples Make It Work. Yes, Some Are Still Together. 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

How awkward, what with the inherent complexity of teenage courtship rituals and/or his fringe and everything! The new Cadbury Crispello advert 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z

It’s also the classic route of religious ritual and regeneration, bringing images of the tomb and the seedbed to mind. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

On the first anniversary of Meilan’s grandmother’s death, the family cooks a ritual feast to honor her spirit. A Chinese American Girl Learns That Her Name Contains Multitudes 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

It provided cooking and heating fuel for crofters for generations and the ritual labour of its slow extraction and drying became a crucial part of the culture of Gaelic-speaking Hebrideans. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Except for a stop at the Pasar Pabukoan, a special Ramadan daytime market, the day before, it was my first direct experience with the fasting ritual, and I peppered them with questions. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Among swimming and watching movies, one ritual between you and Hunter was cleaning and shooting guns. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Screenplay drafts he read suggested that he participated in animal sacrifice and other satanic rituals. West Memphis Three Inspire Yet Another Film, ‘Devil’s Knot’ 2014-05-07T14:13:32Z

In an artist’s statement about the series, Yamagata writes that the rituals of the patients at the springs were reminiscent of spiritual practice. A Cancer Pilgrimage in the Mountains of Japan 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

To find peace in these multipurpose spaces, Rapinchuk has systems and rituals that she has used for years in her Chicago-area home. 5 simple ways to get your home in order, from ‘Clean Mama’ Becky Rapinchuk 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Fan rituals are a time-honored tradition that bond people together into permanent friendships, creating what can often feel like a secret language shared by only a few. How Harry Styles became an even bigger star – and the one we needed the most – in 2022 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

All were designed for use in an ancient Buddhist ritual still performed in the Newar community in the Kathmandu Valley today. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The very form of the language suggested evasion, or superstitious ritual intended to avert misfortune. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z

Many people have these hallucinatory experiences, or go through intense rituals, and claim to have achieved non-duality. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Works from the recent series “Rag and Bone Idiom” evoke talismans and healing rituals. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The festival universe is a great deal larger today, but Cannes remains the center of it, as bound as ever to ritual and tradition. Special Report: Cannes Festival: They'll Always Have Cannes 2012-05-15T23:11:00Z

Now, attempting to honor an old ritual known as the “fall TV season,” we’ve arrived at a slightly more desperate hour. Perspective | The hunt for fall TV brings a last gasp of new shows and — perhaps at long last — a shift in old habits 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Doughty advises families on home death rituals and best practices, like how to keep the dead cool with packs of dry ice. The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

They sought to document the rituals and relationships that create space for joy, solace and restoration. Four Studies of Black Healing 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

The poem—in which the speaker recalls a ritual from childhood—is, Burt says, “about how to remember a time before you saw yourself in time.” Poetry Podcast: Stephen Burt Reads Liz Waldner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

When no one else is there to watch, a couple might put on wigs and prance around, or engage in Santeria rituals. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z

I've already recorded my admiration for this intense and fascinating survey of saints' relics, the ornate reliquaries created to hold them, and the rituals of pilgrimage that venerated them. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z

Among the subjects that pop up in several corners of the exhibition are ritual; drones and their relationship to architecture and urbanism; and forensics and evidence. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

The tree is felled by villagers for use in an ancient ritual, and then chopped into logs for the kilns, where it will transform into charcoal. 'Le Quattro Volte' offers a transformative look at a soul's cycle of life 2011-05-12T19:25:14Z

The morning of Emmy nominations is a strange ritual, sort of like Bill Murray waking up in Groundhog Day. Emmy nominations 2014: some surprises, just not the right ones 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Gaines likens that ritual to a dance — between chair and canvas and canvas and chair — one that's supposed to be filled with struggle, emotion and joy. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

He recounted something from Jadin’s childhood—a ritual that the father and son had at the movie theater downtown. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z

Both pieces depict rituals: one a sacrificial pagan ceremony, the other a drunken Russian marriage. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

They also toll in rituals of both rejoicing and mourning. Hey, what's that sound: Bells 2010-05-24T16:21:00Z

Admittedly, she does at one point indulge a quirky family ritual that involves using twigs for divination. Acclaimed playwright Caridad Svich’s ‘Spark’ largely disappoints

In this case at least, the caretaking ritual is wrapped into the joy and pride of owning those hardwon shoes, which make a bold statement every time you put them on. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Bill Cunningham delights in yanking back the curtain on the vicious rituals of copying that infiltrated the Paris salons of the postwar years. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

"We can fix this!" claims Debbie the eternal optimist, but Alcide enacts an ancient werewolf dumping ritual: "I will hunt with you no longer; I will share flesh with you no longer." "True Blood" 4x11: The witch is dead? 2011-09-05T12:06:00Z

That five-note figure carries a symbolic weight in the piece, which alludes at one point to the Five Points of Fellowship, an aspect of Masonic ritual. Review: ‘Real Enemies,’ at the BAM Harvey Theater, Sheds Light on Conspiracies 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

When dealing with ritual, the show bears a regrettable kinship to a kung fu film set. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z

Clog dancers themselves, they learn about the rituals and dances that connect to the passing of the seasons and cycles of fertility, and the customs of workers in industrial towns. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z

The question is whether the praying, the empathy, the rituals, are just evasions of action. Why hashtags like #PrayforBrussels trend: It says “I won’t allow myself to be dehumanized by the silence” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

But its very existence led Turner to dig deep for African-Muslim elements in Gullah culture, and he found some, in both language and religious rituals like the Gullah circling dance called the ring shout. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

Krasnow’s vibrant abstract paintings from the final decades of his life offer up those traditional patterns of celebratory ritual — revised, remade and reinvented in a thoroughly modern idiom. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The thread moves to Los Angeles, where Russell grew up and watching Disney on a Saturday afternoon was a childhood ritual. Tom Russell sings of life from Hollywood to Mexico 2012-01-19T13:14:07Z

It is a prime example of what Emile Durkheim, the grandfather of sociology, discussed as a necessary and essential time for ritual and revival. Adele can’t fix everything: Neuroscience explains why we fight with Donald Trump-loving racist uncle 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Every Sept. 11 morning since the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Buglisi Dance Theatre has presented its “Table of Silence” — a free “public performance ritual for peace” — at Lincoln Center. 7 Events in New York Honoring 9/11 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Whether or not the animals were raised on pasture or finished in a feedlot isn’t particularly important to Fram as his work centers solely on the rituals of sacrifice. Sustainable halal meat is making inroads in Muslim communities 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

That conversation led me to suspect that “Dune” was, in part, Herbert’s attempt to rival Vance by envisioning every aspect of an alien civilization, including its people’s clothing, cultural traditions and religious rituals. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Without other people, our shared rituals stop being what they are. Perspective | Live music is on hold. Life goes on. 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

An atmosphere develops that starts to seem like ceremony or ritual but becomes more like an unstoppable process. Review: A Rare Dive Into the History of Dance Pioneers 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

We should teach rituals and customs and the positive and negative aspects of religious history—the role of the churches in the civil rights movement and the Inquisition. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z

Ms. Bumbray, going for authenticity and ritual, treated the dance plainly. Review: ‘Run Mary Run’ Features Rashida Bumbray at SummerStage 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Mohan’s previous work has, like “Pink Grapefruit,” often centered on young adults negotiating rituals of romance and sex, and their shifting expectations and desires. For Your Consideration: “Pink Grapefruit” 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Some families bypass any ritual, be it saying goodbye to the body at the crematory, holding a funeral or establishing a permanent memorial. The stunning rise of cremation reveals America’s changing idea of death 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Masks and statuettes and other ritual objects grabbed from Africa and beyond got pulled into museums where they could appeal to the peculiar taste of Western colonizers for thinking and talking about looking. The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s a fantastically bravura piece of art in an intellectual space,” where the artist was “thinking about how to represent some aspects” of a ritual that is not completely understood. Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Weather-speak is a native ritual that the visitor has no hope of mastering. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He tutored everyone in the proper rituals of tailgating. Seth Rich wasn’t just another D.C. murder victim. He was a meme in the weirdest presidential election of our times. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

By the time Ms. Winehouse died, the rituals seemed almost prepackaged. Oscar Push Is Underway for Films About Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

But the daily prayer ritual sticks, and the ideas that I’ve been practising stay with me. How to be more positive this year: 'Trump makes this much harder' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

It revelled in ritual and resembled a pagan passion play, or death cult. From Margaret Thatcher to the Nazis: let's not go down memorial lane 2013-04-22T16:04:52Z

At times, the choreography seems like a patchwork — yes, a mosaic — of allusions to ballet rituals and codes. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

For the remainder of the ritual, mystical meditations were regularly punctured by zingers. Croissants with Cthulhu 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

These conversations are woven between the rituals of regular life‌: Birthdays and weddings are celebrated, Sherenté attends protests and is accepted into their top choice college, Brown University. ‘Being Thunder’ Review: Dancing Alongside a Two-Spirit Teenager 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

There are countless deifications, myth cults, religious reformers, mystery rituals and theologically inspired radicals in the first century. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z

How else could you describe American slavery, or the United States wars in Vietnam and Iraq, or our continuing ritual practice of capital punishment? Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Possible collective ritual of appreciation for universal healthcare system. The spies in Glastonbury's Green Fields 2012-07-16T19:00:07Z

It turns it into woolly but disciplined ritual. Review: Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, Building to Dramatic Peaks 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Described as wall reliefs, they are quizzical, irregular, vaguely ritual, and seem on the verge of motion — a kinetic charge that conveys, if abstractly, the Jamaican-born artist’s dance background and interest in the body. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

They repeat the ritual several times until a lustrous white head rises above the slender cylinder’s rim like a snow-capped mountain. Now Rising to the Top of the Beer World: Foam 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

When I entered my grandparents’ crumbling old house as a child, I stepped into a timeless world of praying, washing, ritual and arcane Brahminical rules around eating and the preparation of food. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Garbus has often used her films to examine the major fault lines underlying American ideals, institutions and rituals, having delved into subjects including health care, politics or the media. Liz Garbus Is Taking Back the Voices Stolen by the Golden State Killer 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

So that’s the ritual: I blow her a kiss and hold on to this piece of chain. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

For the ritual event this year, a new siren song will be calling to turn the red-carpet jewelry green. Red-Carpet Jewels Go 'Green' in Cannes 2013-05-15T13:37:02Z

Today she is revered as a peerless raconteur, intrepid investigator of culture and ritual, and author of a great American novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The finale restores their rituals: Mabel utters the word “spaghetti,” like a mantra, and calls one kid “banana,” the nickname both parents use, as she tucks him in. Find Cassavetes Confusing? Start Here 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

His two dozen canvases and reliefs, installed between 1895 and 1919, portray Christian saints and rites evolving out of pagan and Jewish rituals. Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z

Spooning amber caramel over each cool, creamy bite was part of the delicious ritual. Classic Flan, a Cool and Creamy Taste of the Past 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

The highly regarded artistic group Degenerate Art Ensemble will present “an immersive stage performance weaving together live music and song, visceral solo dance and storytelling ritual.” Historic Beacon Hill grocery gets new life as arts center 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

It shapes mini-dramas about human trials and ritual, yet it also refines the body into pure form, a language of lines and arcs, surging, lengthening and blending together with the buttery ease of oil paint. Alvin Ailey’s signature works shine at Kennedy Center 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

That morning, she and her son had engaged in the annual ritual of the polar plunge, dipping into the gray Atlantic at Horseneck Beach, 50 minutes away. The First of the Year 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

Among the many rituals of Oscar week — the tuxedo fitting, the speech writing, the red carpet unfurling — perhaps the most coolly efficient is Oscar rehearsals. Inside the Dolby Theatre as stars rehearse for the Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Keep to night-time rituals like brushing teeth and reading bedtime stories whenever possible. Sesame Street's pandemic advice for parents: 'Find joy within the moment' 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

A family reunion is taking place in a fishing village near Istanbul, where Fatma, the 90-year-old widow of a local doctor, is receiving a ritual summer visit from her grandchildren. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z

While making rangoli can be celebratory, it is also a daily ritual for many women in India and throughout the diaspora — a tradition that grounds them in challenging times. The Art and Ritual of Rangoli 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The threesomes of Mom, Dad and Freshman are in an anxious tizzy of last-minute errands, the final step of the drop-off ritual. The kids are off to college, but not without one last (emotional) trip to the Container Store 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Is it only the rituals of the Church that keep designers so engaged? Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

“They would describe their social interactions with other religious groups, with enslaved people, with rituals and traditions,” she added. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a ritual that involves endless question-and-answer sessions with voters, hundreds of journalists on red carpets and acceptance speeches at pre-Oscar stops like the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. As Red Carpets Roll Out, Spotlight Stays on Harassment 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

For the Ross family, the ritual is about the awareness — and the honoring — of how food systems work. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

It features prominently in religious ritual and tradition. When vintage opportunities have to do with more than wine 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

In July 1929 the foundation stone was laid with Masonic ritual, accompanied by libations of oil, corn and wine. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z

Candles and candlesticks have since become fixtures of religious observances, a decorative note in homes and restaurants, and lighting them up has turned into a soothing personal ritual for many. Burn These After Reading 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

The other day, though, he posted a video from 2012 of soldiers in New Zealand performing a Maori ritual called the haka for two comrades who were killed in Afghanistan. A Dance for the Dead 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

At the same time, the ritual has become less and less of a daily practice. The Art and Ritual of Rangoli 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

"It's about savoring complex flavors, enjoying shared experiences, marking the close of a long day, celebrating moments big and small and so much more. Non-alc spirits enable these rituals without the downsides of alcohol." Top shelf prices for booze-free drinks: Are nonalcoholic cocktails too expensive? 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

Male communications are about status, and female communications are about connection, says Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown and a best-selling author who specializes in communication rituals. ‘LOVE the eyebrows!’ Just a little verbal grooming among women. 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

I recognize the need to make ritual pronouncements about how we should wait and see what a Trump presidency will actually be like without rushing to judgment, etc. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a ritual of remembrance that I perform every year. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

When people see some part of their own lives unfold on screen, the act of viewing operates in a fashion that’s strikingly similar to how a religious ritual works. What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

As I got older, I learned to hide the rituals. I've spent years taming the OCD monster. Coronavirus has ruined everything 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

For those of us who find that the usual solemnity of uptown theatergoing often turns the excitement of live performance into dutiful ritual, the atmosphere is refreshing. | Theater in the Dark, With Lights: Lots of Modern Angst, and Free Beer 2011-02-11T22:30:51Z

It was a new ritual for the wealthy; for everyone else, a splurge reserved for Easter or Mother’s Day. ‘You can never have too many mimosas’: How brunch became the day-wrecking meal that America loves to hate 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

August turns the trauma of losing her mother and uncle into a career of studying various cultures’ rituals of death. Jacqueline Woodson's 'Another Brooklyn' is a powerful adult tale of girlhood friendships 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

She added that although flower men might bring on waves of laughter, they did not undermine the ritual. Field Notes: As Wedding Roles Evolve, Here Come the Flower Men 2011-06-24T17:47:28Z

Everyday life is depicted with garments, shoes and ornaments, drinking vessels for rituals and daily use and ceramics — nearly all from recent archaeological finds in China. NYC Exhibit Unveils Rich Treasures of Yuan Dynasty 2010-09-27T09:51:00Z

The cargo also included resin perhaps from India, elephant tusks possibly from East Africa and a collection of ritual vessels probably from Thailand. 'Made in China' label sheds light on old Java Sea shipwreck 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

As part of the play’s “ritual,” she said, audience members sat at tables in the lobby to write letters to loved ones. With ‘Letters From Max’ Onstage, Sarah Ruhl Again Mourns a Poet’s Death 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Like the Jonathan Demme movie “Rachel Getting Married,” the riotous comedy “Bridesmaids,” and Lars von Trier’s forthcoming “Melancholia,” Ms. Kazan’s play doesn’t exactly serve as an inviting advertisement for the rituals involved in celebrating marriage. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z

Going to hear music there assumes the pattern of a ritual. Village Vanguard Celebrates Its 80th, Adding Poetry and Comedy to Jazz 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The ritual surrounding new Taylor Swift songs has, historically, been sussing out their subjects. Is Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' About Katy Perry? A Textual Analysis 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

“It became my ritual and has remained so for years. It became my tool for sanity. The park became the best writing studio I’ve ever been in.” Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Ritzy, cavernous, balletomane-y New York City Center isn't a likely venue for this play about two domestics who enact ritual fantasies of murdering their employer by taking turns impersonating her. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Her other "rituals" include regularly washing and bleaching her shoes, or using several toothbrushes while brushing her teeth. Olympic boxer Ginny Fuchs on going for the gold while managing OCD: It's a "battle every day" 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

His vision of a weekly ritual without the strictures of religion has become one of the city’s best-loved musical events. 36 Hours in Albuquerque 2011-10-20T16:50:49Z

“We don’t have real language for it, we don’t have real rituals for it, we don’t have work and bereavement policies for it,” she said. Twitter critics attacked Chrissy Teigen for sharing her pregnancy loss. Here's the right way to respond. 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The key texts of the Mass treated in musical settings are more or less invariable, representing firmly established beliefs — “the certainty from ritual,” as Banks put it. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

For one thing, it’s a ritual that spans millenniums, dating back to the oldest described journeys. Souvenirs 101 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

What are your risks, rituals, regrets, and pleasures? In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

When the rest of life feels as if you’re spinning in outer space, a fairy-light string of rituals can be what keeps you tethered to the ground. Improve Your Bedtime Routine With These Five Luxurious Tips 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

But she was like, "Oh, this is a book about ritual. This is a book about how we tell stories and relate to the past." "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Each wish is a part of a joint ritual, during which the wishes become less about the request or the result and more about something else entirely. Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’ at the Hirshhorn is branching out. This year, your wishes can be virtual. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

But ballet dancers are especially prone to using rituals and habits of the mind and spirit in trying to ensure success. Ballet dancers have weird and quirky pre-show rituals that would put any sports star to shame 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Atheist states based around myth and ritual are not hard to find. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z

“Advice for Future Corpses” also offers a brisk cultural history of death rituals and rites, from traditional Tibetan sky burials to our present abundance of options. What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Not that he doesn't get drunk on his own – "It's at the fifth glass of vodka that resisting the next one becomes difficult" – but in company it's a solemn ritual. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z

Little of that insight, however, made it on to screen in his section, a depiction of a "cleansing" voodoo ritual. A rum take on Cuba 2012-07-05T19:59:01Z

I don’t know what there is to be gained by going through some predetermined ritual of self-flagella — sorry. Domesticated: What Happens After the Sex Scandal 2013-11-05T10:45:25Z

Ronald Barrett, a scholar of black American rituals of death, attributed the practice to a West African tradition in which mourners carried handkerchiefs, scarves and other ephemera bearing the names and faces of their dead. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

“It’s relaxing. I love doing breathing exercises,” said Hassig, adding that it’s a ritual he does often, and he has never had problems in the past. Their dad was drowning. They saved him using CPR they saw in movie scenes. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

With Fellow Barber, he’s seeking to elevate the ritual even further. | Out with F.S.C. Barber, in with Fellow Barber 2013-07-25T22:33:10Z

As they partake in daily prayer rituals and make visits with the Carmelites to nursing home patients with dementia, the young women figure out what they do and don’t like about community life. ‘The Sisterhood’: R U there, God? It’s me, without makeup.

Released in 1964, “Dead Birds” documented local rituals of violence that Mr. Gardner came to see, he said, as “much more civilized than what we’d been doing for all the history I’ve ever read of.” Robert Gardner, renowned documentary filmmaker of ‘Dead Birds,’ dies at 88

Its rituals, structures, and even some of its beliefs seeped into his art, and complicate our understanding of it — and of him. For Andy Warhol, Faith and Sexuality Intertwined 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Of all the indignities and tragedies Homeira Qaderi and her family endured when the Taliban seized Herat, Afghanistan, the most poignant to read about is her father’s ritual of hiding the family’s books. Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Some Germans get their trees from lots, but many families make an annual ritual of going out to cut a tree. A trendy Tannenbaum: German ambassador’s residence blends Old World traditions with modern digs 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The two-hour work, as she explains in program notes, “is a movement ritual for our time.” Dance Review: ‘Last Days/First Field,’ by Jill Sigman 2013-05-11T02:06:30Z

Her best-known ’70s works are her “Woman Rising” photographs, in which she enacts mythic rituals, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, amid natural landscapes, as shown by several examples in this exhibition. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

It was once a British courting ritual, where each apple was assigned the name of an eligible bachelor, and each woman would try to grab the apple representing the man she was interested in. The origins of 25 fall traditions 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Pride for Romaine is a holiday with rituals meant to honor the work of “ancestors,” who in 1969 rioted against police raids on Stonewall Inn, then took to the streets to demonstrate strength in numbers. At New York’s Pride weekend, a noticeable cloud from the Supreme Court 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Penniless but determined to carry out the ritual, they resort to crime. A Haunting Debut Novel Brings New Faces to the Myth of the American West 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

The display, closing this weekend, includes reconstructions of the tomb’s three chambers and reproductions of more than 1,000 treasures and ritual objects, accompanied by video documentaries and texts. Spare Times for Children Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Rumors of attacks on the Jews had been circulating; permission had been given, it was said, for three days of violence; there were accusations against the Jews of ritual murder. Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

The drama of the rituals hinges on our not totally understanding. Ritual love of “Vikings: Valhalla” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

A Looney Tunes-esque chase scene and a mystical ritual both feel interminable. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

The premiere of The Rite of Spring has come to play a ritual role itself, symbolising the shock arrival of a new music and a new era in European history. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z

In a big misstep, the actors’ faces remain mostly in shadows during the evocation of the Two Minutes Hate ritual; this lighting choice keeps us from fully experiencing the grim power of hatemongering. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Both events seemed like a quaint throwback to a time when people performed small but important social rituals. The magic of wreathmaking circles 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Over the centuries, the holy book became increasingly treated as an aesthetic object and a ritual instrument. ‘The Art of the Qur’an,’ a Rare Peek at Islam’s Holy Text 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

In this context his actions suggest an austere and arduous ritual, and the posts evoke abbreviated totems. Art Review: ?Kindred Spirits? at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo 2011-12-22T23:13:25Z

In the optics of law enforcement, there are no wins quite like the ritual display of guns, money, or drugs on a table. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But in due course, ceramics echoing more native tastes — for example studiedly irregular raku vessels — also became an integral part of the complex tea-drinking ritual. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z

Observing suits Chester just fine, as he prefers a life on the margins of middle school, shaped by his many rituals. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

In his 2010 film, “Dogtooth,” a middle-class couple raises three children according to an elaborate set of codes and rituals that include assigning new meanings to common words. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Nor does the company from Cape Town, South Africa, acknowledge barriers between African myth and European, African ritual and European, African music and European. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The sorting ritual is a prized trope of young adult literature. From Gryffindor to Dauntless: “Insurgent” and our obsession with young adult sorting rituals 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

It is a ritual full of symbolism for Romans who consider fava beans harbingers of spring – a custom that reminds us that it isn’t just what you eat, but how. Recipe for broad beans and herby rice with lamb | A Kitchen in Rome 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It didn’t feel so much like a dance club so much as a quasi-religious ritual.” Up Close: Guardian of the Pines 2011-05-25T20:25:53Z

New York Classical Theater, the Public Theater, Hip to Hip and the Drilling Company Theater are among the many companies large and small that will participate in this annual summer ritual of New York City. 15 Summer Theater Festivals, From Stratford to Williamstown 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The details of precedence were understandable to Indians for whom hierarchy, ritual and ceremonial were never a matter for ridicule. The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy - review 2012-07-13T21:55:05Z

First, as a ceremonial ritual, he had them burn Dean and Cindy’s wedding photo. Film: A Marriage?s Death, and Post-Mortem 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

Mr. Zeitlin’s affection for these rituals, and for the people with whom he collaborated, was a recurring theme in his discussion of his work. The Making of ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ 2012-06-08T20:45:23Z

Call it painting, ritual or séance, there’s something poignant about this in an art fair in Tribeca, where performance art used to be quotidian, rather than the exception. The Independent, More Inclusive Than Ever 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong: This idea of being more relaxed about wedding attire hasn’t become a ritual for everyone. The J. Crew bridal dress is dead. But the casual wedding it inspired lives on. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

That's an elaborate square altar that highlights the religious ritual whereby the faithful walk clockwise around the altar in veneration of the Buddhas contained in four niches. NYC exhibition depicts ancient Buddhist caves 2013-04-29T06:32:10Z

There will be a quest of some kind — pursuit of “the darker mysteries of the self” — that might lead to a ritual of some sort and, often, a bleakly comic interlude. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

So, 2017 is finally ending, and we’re bracing for the routine rituals: donning metallic party dresses, nursing hangovers and prepping tired resolutions, usually about slimming down and making everything in our lives perfect. Perspective | An art resolution for 2018 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

If it was trying to pass as a ritual, the evening was awkward; as a piece of theater, it was bland. Dance Review: A Greek Composer?s Japanese Inspirations 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z

Only after completing this ritual would we consider a movie, preferably something loud and empty. Oh, My Aching Head: Movies for the Soused or Now Sober 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

One of the rituals you attended for “CosmicWander” took place in Singapore. A Supernatural Dance Explorer’s Art and Wanderings 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

But some rituals proved trickier to excise than others. A Feminist Romance, but Not a Radical One 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Part ritual, part tradition, the operating principle every four years is to put on a good face and welcome the new administration with respect and excruciating good manners. Don’t gloat, don’t pout: The Golden Rule of elite Washington inaugural parties 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The inscriptions in an ancient Umbrian language describe the long-ago religious rituals of Gubbio. Overnighter: Frescoes and Festivals in an Umbrian Town 2012-10-28T05:00:23Z

She has just finished a ritual dance along with some 2,500 white-clad followers of the Universal White Brotherhood society next to a glacial lake, high in Bulgaria's Rila Mountains. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

“The touchstone for him as a designer is the idea of bringing ‘beauty, reason and order’ to the rituals of everyday life,” Ms. Delphia said. Carnegie Museum to Open a Survey of the Designer Peter Muller-Munk 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

He’s so synonymous with the show, and the charm that’s made it an evening ritual, that even after a satisfying memoir, at least one question remains. Review | Alex Trebek’s memoir, ‘The Answer Is . . .,’ is everything a ‘Jeopardy!’ fan could want 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Circles within circles in the design reflect the ideas of ritual and repetition that have informed so much of Birtwistle's work over the years. The Minotaur – review 2013-01-18T15:08:55Z

She ran two miles every morning, got four kids off to school, and then went off to her own job; she didn’t have time to fuss with time-consuming beauty rituals. 10 ways of looking at a bad haircut 2014-04-23T22:59:00Z

It’s also easy to praise the show for the way it acquaints us with the rituals and degradations of the modern American penal system. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns to Netflix, wickedly unrestrained

It’s an annual ritual, a commemoration of the harvest. Thanksgiving means nouveau wine — and not just from Beaujolais 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

There is no “pomping” — a ritual that involves weaving tissue paper to create elaborate floats and displays. When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

But if her lifestyle is itinerant, she has embraced a few beauty and wellness rituals that center on comfort and self-soothing. How Anya Taylor-Joy Learned to Soothe Herself 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

There are scenes that depict initiation rites and hazing rituals, but little of the activity is explicitly shown. "I feel like politicians are born in fraternities": "The Line" director on Greek life mindset 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The stories are usually lively and amusing, particularly Ms. Auster-Rosen’s recounting of a “pagan ritual” she attended. Theater Review: ?From the Same Cloth? at the Shell Theater 2012-04-10T20:51:07Z

In the United States, three generations of Latin American families often wept together in a nightly ritual that’s hard to imagine today. Delia Fiallo, Master of the Telenovela, Is Dead at 96 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

Frame by frame, morning by morning, Taggart and Cooper enact a ritual of creation that doubles as an affirmation of partnership, a dance of privilege and vulnerability. One bed photo per day, for years and years: Mesmerizing moments from an art show about daily life 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

She's going to get us menus, I thought, harkening back to the ancient forgotten ritual. Glitter and Cotija: The poignance of my first lunch out with my daughter 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

It's a tricky endeavor, trying to highlight objecthood and aesthetics while also highlighting connections of tradition, ritual, or motif across geographic and temporal thresholds. SAM's 'Luminous' sheds light on Asian treasures 2011-10-13T16:07:04Z

Spring is only a week away, and as the temperature warms, many people are motivated to embark on annual spring-cleaning rituals. Perspective | Spring cleaning? How about spring decluttering? 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

When my kids started school in the neighborhood, I initiated a weekly ritual of meeting up with them there for an after-school treat. The secret code of America's most iconic hot chocolate recipe, somewhat cracked 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Now that I'm older, I realize the ritual of something sweet in the morning with your coffee makes for a beautiful way to get the day started. Sourdough cider doughnuts put everyone in the fall spirit 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

It was a “just-the-facts” kind of diner, and it perfectly suited Murray’s daily rituals. When your favorite neighborhood restaurant closes, the grief is real 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Alderley Edge is the scene of a timeless ritual that must be re-enacted over and over by ignorant and ephemeral mortals. Boneland by Alan Garner – review 2012-08-29T09:05:01Z

Throughout she describes the courtroom as a theater and the trial as a ritual public performance, albeit one with warring narrators. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z

The first minute and change of “For George Lewis” is dominated by sustained flute tones, and brooding piano figures redolent of somber ritual. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

A sacred tunnel discovered in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan is filled with thousands of ritual objects and may lead to royal tombs, the lead Mexican archaeologist on the project said on Wednesday. Filled with artifacts, ancient Mexican tunnel may lead to royal tombs 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Making and breaking New Year's resolutions is a familiar and discouraging annual ritual for many people. Ready to try an old approach to a New Year’s resolution? Saint Ignatius may provide some guidance 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s all in the details: the ritual purity bath, the requirements of keeping kosher, the customary blessings and harsh restraints of marriage — none of which are treated in a cavalier way. Review | ‘Unorthodox’ carefully and beautifully depicts a young woman’s flight from tradition 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Shanta Thake, Lincoln Center’s artistic leader, came onstage before each concert to welcome the audience and lead it in what she called a “ritual.” Mostly Mozart’s Repertoire Broadens With Its Audience 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

This led archaeologist Klaus Schmidt to propose that it was the thirst for ritual that led those hunter-gatherers to permanent settlement, paving the way for civilization. Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

This ritual makes her feel like she’s “shifting gears into a work mode.” Marie Kondo has advice for living and working at home in a pandemic 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Chezere Brathwaite, 50, who lives in Los Angeles but is originally from London, cheered the ceremony for combining modernity and ancient rituals. African-Americans hail UK royal wedding's nod to black history,... 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

So guns took on a greater importance because they provided a bonding ritual between us. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Younger members of communities who partake in ayahuasca ceremonies, she said, are more intent on building materially successful lives in a global economy than they are preserving their local rituals. Taking Ayahuasca When You’re a Senior Citizen 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

In the wake of Mr. McPhee’s wayward sermon, Mr. Palestine’s closing set felt like a healing ritual. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z

Although there was no ritual to mark the occasion, I felt suddenly that there was a ceremonial significance in the meal we shared. My Orthodox exodus: When I left my community, I discovered myself 2014-04-13T12:00:00Z

And when Grohl’s satanic possession sends him on a rock-star power trip, the rest of the band endures tirades, bullying and potential ritual sacrifice. ‘Studio 666’ Review: Foo Fighting the Devil 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The blood ritual binds the community together as surely as the pounding of the drums. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Critics say that while a form of the ritual existed more than 1,000 years ago, its current shape dates from efforts in the late 1800s to unite Japan around the emperor. Japan monarch spends symbolic night with goddess to end throne rituals 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

In these lettered panels, Warburg used maps, diagrams, calendars, transcontinental migration routes and genealogical trees to consider how ideas, rituals and images persist throughout history, and how humans relate to the cosmos. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

SoulCycle, another iconic indoor cycling program, makes regular use of religious aesthetics, ritual and language in its classes. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

It is a glimpse of a world, both strange in its specificity and familiar in its teenage rituals. Tractor Boys by Martin Bogren – review 2013-07-07T13:00:01Z

On the last day, we all helped the crew pull up the dark-red sails for a ritual sail, then sipped margaritas. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's a craft, in some sense an art, work done out of reverence for craftsmanship, and finally a ritual preparation of a form of grave-goods. The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z

All over town, other churches simultaneous perform the same funeral rituals — carrying their individual coffins through town. In Greece, they do Easter with gusto 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

They perform an annual ritual — charming and infuriating, lavish and tedious — devoted to conjuring up a fantasy of continuity and consensus. #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and Awkward TV: Our Critics Talk Oscars 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

One set of rituals emphasizes the guilty pleasures of enjoying wine. How brands turn customers into devoted followers 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Although religious orders were banned in Turkey in the early 1920s with the establishment of the secular republic, the dervishes’ rituals were regarded as a cultural heritage and the order was largely tolerated. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The wonks who had managed to acquire the book began to flaunt it, in some sort of primal, peacocking nerd ritual. Forget Harry Potter. In D.C., people lined up at midnight for Michael Wolff’s Trump exposé. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Experiments in content and format should be part of the agenda as well; perhaps there will be fewer conventional plays meant for everyone and more rituals, parades and sharings meant for someone. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

In the next few weeks, wine collectors, importers, retailers and writers will flock to Bordeaux for “en primeurs,” the annual ritual of tasting the previous year’s wines. Does vintage matter? Bordeaux proves that it does, even for a $14 bottle. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The inanity of the rituals of teen-age girls—the semi-rigid hierarchies, mandatory conformity, mob mentality, and rules of inclusion and exclusion—are mocked endlessly in 2004’s “Mean Girls,” a cult classic. What About the Girls? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The record keeps pulsating from one energy to another, suggesting art project and ritual. Playlist: Inspired Variations, on Heroes and an Elixir 2014-02-28T23:30:26Z

That ritual incantation is repeated multiple times in 2049, with various watchful characters studying, analysing, zooming in on details. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

This is a complex but legible, lovable piece; a funky yet elegant ritual; thrilling and taut, if also fundamentally unhurried and unpressured. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

“White on White” appears to target the way some white people find comfort in rituals of performative expiation. ‘White on White’ Review: American Grotesque 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

But for me, it’s the ritual I crave, something to temper the chaos that is our lives. Motherlode Blog: Can Breakfast Replace Family Dinner? 2011-10-29T14:28:20Z

Ornamentation rituals are a defining feature of human society: first we get food and fire sorted, then we daub cave walls and ourselves. Cosmetic surgery: a stealth imperialism with self-harm its main weapon 2012-08-29T18:35:01Z

Julia Raeside The ritual of the disgraced figure falling, or failing to fall, on their sword has become a staple of the morality show that is modern public life. TV highlights 03/08/2011 2011-08-02T20:59:00Z

The issue isn’t necessarily the ritual of folding, rolling and squeezing them into the bag. Travel Wise | There’s an art to unpacking. Here’s how to do it right. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

From as early as I can remember until 1952, when I left home at the age of 18 to go into the army, there was an annual ritual on the afternoon of Christmas Day. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

These include suggestions that it was a form of ritual which involved the eating of small pieces of a relative's flesh, not as a source of nutrition, but as an act of homage. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

It was a ritual Kaufman started in 1971, when he rented a theater there to show his first 35 mm film, Sugar Cookies. The Toxic Investor: A Legendary Indie-Film Company Turns to Crowdfunding 2013-02-27T15:15:25Z

"No rituals, no rites, no holding applause — they are free to do whatever they want." Seattle Symphony branches out with 'Symphony Untuxed' and '[untitled]' series 2012-10-18T20:18:10Z

“In Africa, animal skins and fur are used during traditional rituals and ceremonies.” Taking the ‘Lady’ Out of the Lady Bag 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

“ROKÉ Cupid” and its companions invest lowbrow media — makeup tutorials, videos of shopping purchases, blurry copies of rom-coms — with the pomp of ritual. Review: Rom-Com as Ritual in ‘The Art of Luv (Part 5)’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

When the leader dies, the cult either disappears or syncretizes other rituals and becomes a new religion that has little to do with the nutjob who founded it. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Even at progressive campuses, tradition remains: fines for missing meetings; elaborate rituals; bans on serving alcohol at parties — putting fraternities in control of social life. When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

A photo from Tuesday, taken by Mark Peterson for The New Yorker, captures Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee in Florida’s gubernatorial race, participating in this ritual. Andrew Gillum’s Kids Embody the Voter’s Warring Impulses on Election Day 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

In 1905, pilgrims carrying everything on their backs had assembled it near a declivity used for Christian worship since about the 11th century, and possibly for ritual murder long before that. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

One ritual of membership involved other members lifting their masks after new recruits joined. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The fashions may have changed — the beachgoing ladies have swapped their long white dresses and chairs for bikinis and beach towels — but the rituals endure. Visiting France?s C?te Fleurie 2010-08-06T15:19:00Z

Producing a cheese board at the end of a dinner party is a favorite ritual for Goddard. How to Throw a Party Like a British Fashion Designer 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

I was fascinated by the rituals and manners of English life. Author, author: Richard Mason 2011-03-12T00:06:54Z

The plot revolves around three generations of law enforcement officers, beginning with a cotton farmer who is anointed a police chief in the 1920s and tasked with solving a teenager’s ritual murder. Stuart Woods, Prolific Best-Selling Thriller Author, Dies at 84 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

I learned things about rituals and psalms and liturgies from documentaries. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Nanni Moretti on Tackling Big Game 2011-05-18T16:54:44Z

"We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual — first the magical, then the religious kind," he wrote. Taylor Swift’s invisible merchandise: The era of surprise song collectibles 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

When I went upstairs to the main meditation room, I was a bit distracted by the ritual. Which works better: A meditation app or in-person instruction? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

For our family, the most consistent dinner ritual is a 4:30 p.m. Perspective | Taking back the family dinner: How we created a mealtime renaissance 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about artistic quality or content of the program, but the ritual itself. It’s quite predictable — and, visually, mostly dead boring, to be totally honest.” A Manifesto for a 21st-Century Concert. (Drinks Allowed.) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

But many of us are still loyal to sweatpants, and perhaps less inclined to participate in the formal, overdressed dining rituals of our pre-pandemic lives. These chefs are giving caviar a fresh rebrand 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gibbs and others said that Ms. Psaki was most concerned with restoring normalcy to the press briefing, a Washington ritual whose credibility was eroded in the Trump years. Bully Pulpit No More: Jen Psaki’s Turn at the Lectern 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Behind and beneath its unassuming exterior are a perfectly preserved Baroque interior, the original ritual bath with fresh water from an underground stream, a slaughterhouse and the bread ovens. A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

University College London set up a museum for his silver ritual objects, and they narrowly survived 1940s air raids that destroyed campus buildings. Antiques: Judaica From Tuck Collection in London to Be Auctioned 2012-11-15T21:51:19Z

Searching for his name is a daily ritual. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

But this exhaustingly poignant work now seems to capture the Covid-specific grief of the bereaved, bereft even of the rituals of mourning. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It was a ritual: Cue up a free-jazz record first thing in the morning and see if it helps your brain open up to what’s possible in the day ahead. Perspective | The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times review by Sheri Linden noted how "the movie holds its beveled mirrors up to the role-play, ritual and compromise in all love relationships." Romance and domesticity bound together in 'The Duke of Burgundy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

But while these rituals have become largely associated with the American South, their roots can be traced back to the meeting of West African and European traditions, Mr. Miller said. Tracing the Origins of a Black American New Year’s Ritual 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Let us not forget the moment he makes up a passage of the Bible to convince Lisa that God endorses Whacking Day, Springfield's ritual slaughter of snakes. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z

Whatever your thing, the essence of this ritual is to carve out time for yourself every day to recharge with a little self-loving activity that puts you square in the present moment. Take back your lunch hour (all of it!) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

That scholar, Pliny Earle Goddard, was employed by the museum in 1914 to live among the Apache and study their rituals, according to copies of letters written by Mr. Goddard at the time. Apaches’ Dispute With American Museum of Natural History 2013-08-19T22:28:01Z

The main feature of the “Sheb-i Arus” or “night of the union,” is an enchanting ritual performed by the dervishes of the Mevlevi order — more commonly known as the whirling dervishes. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Nadine wouldn’t let a thing like maturity — or whatever passes for maturity when you’re 16 — stop her from continuing the ritual. The teen cult classic you’ve been waiting for: Catch “The Edge of Seventeen” in theaters while you still can 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Vermont is where the ritual of giving thanks at dinner started. Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Tea Alagic's production of "The Brothers Size" last year at San Diego's Old Globe clarified the ritual aspect of McCraney's vision. The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

And inevitably, her efforts will conflict with the masculine tropes and rituals embedded in the Roman Catholic faith. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Cooking for myself is part of my ritual,” he said. The Joy of Cooking for One 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The only ritual we have that we share every single day is cocktail hour and movie night. Taylor Mac’s Week: Watching Bond Movies on VHS and Discovering the Banjo 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Traditionally, challah is defined as any bread that is made for use in Jewish ritual. A Twist on the Traditional Challah 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The catastrophic fires of the last few growing seasons on the West Coast have turned what was once the relatively routine, joyful-if-adrenaline-fueled annual ritual of harvest and winemaking into a period of fear and anxiety. Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Here’s a typical Eisenbergian sentence, about tourists in a New York restaurant: “All around them people are knocking back various brunch-type cocktails with a tentative, hopeful abandon, as if emulating native ritual.” Review | ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ isn’t exactly political, but it eerily captures our national mood 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The old-timers telling stories in the coffee shop are acting out familiar roles, as are the members of the City Council and the participants in a solemn ritual at the Masonic temple. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The dance, it turns out, is a radically condensed version of a funeral masquerade, a communal ritual intended to urge the reluctant dead into the afterlife, where they can assume useful roles as ancestors. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z

Now I have a new ritual — deleting things in the New Year with the hopes of finding more comfort and focus — which is something we should all do. What I want to leave behind in 2023 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

In the second half of “Save Yourself,” details of disturbing gothic rituals are laid on a bit thick and the young-adult undertones in Layla’s story grow louder. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z

Making its debut at the Joyce Theater this week, Black Grace, a dance company from New Zealand, opens its program with dancers standing in a ritual circle as someone sings softly. Review: Black Grace, From New Zealand With Incredible Speed 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Like listening to NPR’s Morning Edition, the preparation and eating of breakfast belongs to that class of ritual activity by which we turn our sleeping soft selves into our outer selves. The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

She hopes that this embrace of incense will continue to change how people incorporate smells into their homes and engage in rituals. The Rise of Incense 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Coffee is a ritual, and when it gets political, it is personal. ‘We have a culture war to win’: Why Starbucks cups always stir up controversy 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

“In a way, it’s impossible,” Mr. Anderson said of Tinder rituals. Beyond Swipe Right: The Pickup Line Gets a Makeover 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

She has studied traditions of narrative performance in East Timor, Indonesia, Korea and Taiwan and created an original, flowing piece of work, rendered in new jazz-related musical idioms, but rooted in old symbols and rituals. Jazz Listings for Sept. 18-24 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“In a world that doesn’t linger too long on anything, we’re trying to bring a bit of ritual back into listening to music,” said Adam Sieff, the marketing and sales director at Gearbox. Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

This is not just rave as hollow ritual or retro revival, but rave with its utopian message that it's OK for people to be decent to each other. Jackin proves dance music is alive and bouncing – but mostly outside London 2013-05-28T15:51:00Z

Dodgy economic prospects facing millennials also help torpedo the old, formal dating rituals. The End of Courtship? 2013-01-11T21:56:39Z

Our rituals and sensory engagement with the pen bind us to it. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z

Dr. Kryger says any ritual will do, including meditating, reading a poem or keeping a journal. Family Matters: Married, but Sleeping Alone 2010-07-23T18:19:00Z

In this show the troupe will present a typical day in their lives, including chants and fighting rituals. Spare Times for Children, for Nov. 23-29 2012-11-22T20:56:47Z

De Carvajal was a converso, forced to adopt Catholicism but suspected of clandestinely practicing Jewish rituals. A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

People are a little desperate for ritual and celebration.” The Unbridled Shower: Celebrating Divorce Not With a Whimper but a Bang 2012-09-14T23:48:46Z

A ritual we take for granted as much as our nightly tooth brushing had suddenly changed. The Night TV Went It Alone 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

A wonderful thing to do is a ritual with just the two of you — to recommit, and re-exchange your vows to each other. Field Notes: Without This Ring: Losing a Wedding Band 2011-08-05T23:15:53Z

They often evoke obscure primordial rituals, with vowels and consonants passing around the ensemble in spontaneous-seeming fits and starts. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Devotees like Ms. Chavkin who brush their skin often with abrasive fibers at home, discover the ritual in a spa. Skin Deep: Wildly Abrasive 2010-12-16T06:45:06Z

Beyond the commentary on hair and bodies and theatricality, Ms. Achugar seems to be after some cathartic ritual experience. Dance Review: Luciana Achugar’s Latest Dance at Abrons Arts Center 2012-05-22T22:02:20Z

The only mystery here is how long the clown menace will continue to be a story before it fades from popular consciousness, like satanic ritual abuse, recovered memories and razor blade-stuffed apples before it. Don’t fear the creeper: Those weird clowns are just a social delusion 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

"Primates" examines the competitiveness and rituals of wealthy mothers on the tony Upper East Side. 'Primates of Park Avenue' author leads the pack east 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

And Garbus' contribution to the series' signature overhead shots of symmetrical action capture the flashlights laid in a circle as the writhing mob consumes Fred, a pagan ritual through and through. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

During rituals, spirit mediums dance to loud folk music while appearing to transform themselves into different characters from legend and history. Vietnam's spirit mediums revive once forbidden ritual 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

You have to convince people to be involved in this set of assumptions, traditions and rituals they think they most want to be involved in. In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z

The Incans worked gold into crowns, diadems, earrings, nose ornaments, ritual vessels and other religious and ornamental objects. A Paris Show That?s as Good as Gold 2010-09-06T10:00:00Z

“It’s still such a ritual. I always went to the party. I didn’t miss one party.” When the ‘Saturday Night Live’ Show Ends, Lorne Michaels and the S.N.L. Cast Start the After-Party 2014-01-31T21:06:14Z

White parents saw their glorification of a racist emblem not as worthy of reflection and correction, but as a sacred ritual to defend with self-centered fervor. White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Crystal, who doesn’t seem to notice, believes ardently in savoring the moment and in treating every activity as a sacred ritual. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z

In church satires there’s always a scene in which a ritual, tradition or show of faith becomes a grand spectacle. God Loves a Show: Religious Satires Reveal the Art of Acting Faithful 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s clear that we are not watching an isolated insomniac episode but a regular ritual: He is kept up at night, he says, with “always the hope gamma rays will merge our essence.” Review: Up All Night, With Rebecca Hall as Muse, in ‘Soundstage’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

By the 1930s, he argued, the avant garde had become a social ritual: everyone going to see all those hip, surrealist movies. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z

In it, director William Oldroyd replaced the usual chaperoned tea parties, averted gazes and stuttering proposals with a different kind of courtship ritual. Is the Favourite historically accurate? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

The comfort in her own sacred ritual — writing about him — is insurance, its own celebration. In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Their ultimate goal, Ms. Goodkind added, is to demystify fashion and to promote self-discovery through the not-so-simple ritual of getting dressed. Losing Their Clothes, Finding Themselves 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

She never swirls and sniffs, the ritual that non-wine drinkers alternately find amusing, affected or annoying. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

We formed a still-enduring ritual: I would sit at the computer, he in a nearby rocking chair or on our bed, and I would read my drafts aloud to him. I was a teenage bride 2012-08-15T00:00:00Z

But it’s more than a job; it’s a ritual, a confluence of visible and invisible forces, acoustic and social and psychological. Disconcerted: A Music Critic’s Empty Nights 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Then again, the conversations and note-comparing that ensue are time-honored festival rituals. Perspective | Film festivals face the dreaded choice this year: Go virtual or go dark 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s become a kind of ritual or ceremonial phrase,” he said. They sent thoughts and prayers. Why was that considered a bad thing? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

They are usefully organized into five sections that explain the court, society, ancestral rituals, Joseon Buddhism and the dynasty's end. LACMA's lovely show on Korea in a time of transformation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

They look as if they might be used in some futuristic ritual. With just with carved wood or terra cotta, one artist makes the miniature feel monumental 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Its treatments, all based on American Indian rituals and ingredients, were developed in partnership with tribes who once occupied the nearby Dan River. Visit Primland Resort and Spa 2011-02-10T14:50:07.030Z

Then she began a nightly ritual of mercilessly whacking each of her pink satin shoes against a cinder-block wall at the David H. Koch Theater. Lens Blog: At City Ballet, Footwear Is Almost as Important as Feet 2013-12-30T18:23:07Z

Midway through, it switches into buzzing, blasting, big-room EDM — as if leaping from ritual to rave — but not before Bad Bunny makes a point Jelly Roll Morton might well have respected. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Everyone remembers the sequence for its sharp juxtaposition of serene religious ritual and startling violence, as Michael, the once-reluctant successor to his father’s business, handles the job with efficient, cold-blooded aplomb. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Last year’s stark December, before coronavirus vaccines were widely available, disrupted many holiday rituals. What we kept, what we ditched, what we cooked: How covid changed the holidays 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

In his original 1956 review of “The Bald Soprano” he recognizes it as a masterpiece, but tellingly does not rave about its formal daring or snarky portrait of bourgeois rituals. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z

The girl seemingly called the serpent to her after a ritual at the beginning of "The Essex Serpent." "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

However, Dr. Dozor is culturally sensitive to the importance of incense in religious services and rituals, and doesn’t think that should be disregarded. The Rise of Incense 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

He immigrated to the United States in 2015 and his drawings became a consuming meditative ritual. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

The ritual takes a few times to perfect, but once it’s mastered, you’re unlikely to eat oysters any other way. How to make the most out of Valentine’s Day dinner at a restaurant 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

In a backstage greenroom, Vevers indulged in the preshow ritual he’s developed over the years: grooming and a cup of tea. At Coach, an Eclectic Paean to New York Cool 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

“And then the return of things like social dance, doing rituals together, the sing-along, all of these ways that really address the question of what does New York need that only live performance can provide.” Lincoln Center emerges from pandemic with summer festival 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

They reveal the dart-player's affection for the faithful hawk, the dart, by showing us his or her own unique, habitual gesture – like a little ritual that settles the focus and ensures success. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z

“Aperitivo” or “apero” is an integral part of Italian lifestyle―it is the daily ritual of meeting late afternoon or early evening for a cocktail and a few nibbles. This aperol spritz from “Cocktail Italiano” is destined to become your new favorite summer be... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The video also raises questions about Superior Farms’s promise that all meat from the plant is butchered according to the Islamic rules of halal, or ritual slaughter. Animal Rights Group Says Video Shows Abuse of Sheep 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Abrahamson sensitively details their daily routines and rituals as Joy quietly and patiently plans an escape. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The band revives ancient poems and melodies for tunes that were once heard at weddings, Sabbath gatherings and other community rituals. Review: Feedel Band and the Libyans, African Sounds at the Global Beat Festival 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The coupling ritual, which lasts about 15 minutes, occurs in a specific place — off the northeast tip of Providenciales, or Provo — three to five days after the full moon. Despite the Caribbean country’s name, Turks and Caicos is not a duo like Batman and Robin 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

McGrath stokes the furnace of his play to the point of explosion with little more than the fuel of everyday ritual and irritations, and without a single imposed cliché. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z

It’s a ritual listening experience that feels unsurprising and unpredictable. Perspective | What is Sudoku jazz? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“It’s part of the whole ritual that develops in 19th century society, of calling upon people,” said Tom Kelleher, a curator at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. Antiques: Database of Viginia Slave Names Goes Online 2011-09-08T20:55:45Z

Now synecdoche for undergoing indoctrination by hypnotic forces, usually emanating from a cultish leader, “drinking the Kool-Aid” was a ritual of faith for members of the Peoples Temple. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

She is the founder of Rutine Matters, a website inspired by an appreciation for simple beauty rituals. The Healthy Dish Alek Wek Makes to Stay Energized 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

So there’s a kind of dutifulness to its election satire, which unfolds with all the ritual merriment of a candidates’ pancake toss at a state fair. For ‘S.N.L.,’ Clinton-Trump Has Been a Blessing and a Curse 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

In the opening chapter, she discovers that the new house Senna constructed has not been properly baptized by local ritual, and thus is under an evil spell. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

He travels to Sunderland and finds in its musclebound gym rats, hot-hatch racers, and WKD-swigging lasses patterns of ritual and tribalism at which we turn up our class-conscious noses at our peril. It's a good week in television for republicanism 2012-06-01T23:05:37Z

The routine, the ritual of getting ready, becomes very important for me. | Lily Rabe 2011-01-26T21:46:01Z

In a phone interview a few days earlier, Mr. Parker explained how he and Mr. Stone had abandoned their preseason ritual of holding a writers’ retreat to drink, carouse and think up ideas. ‘South Park’: After Two Decades, It’s Still by the Seat of Their Pants 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

This ritual action repeats, and the work as a whole shares this loose-fitting shape of escalating and subsiding. Dance Review: Luciana Achugar’s ‘Otro Teatro’ Focuses on the Body 2014-04-04T21:18:52Z

This was a ritual that persisted until we became too big to fit comfortably. Family life 2012-05-18T23:05:08Z

Here, the causes of death are anything but natural – the novel opens with a young woman being appallingly mutilated in a ritual killing. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-06-21T16:50:01Z

There, for three days and nights, about 30 of us took part in barely-lit rituals to commune with the dead. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Shrieking and stuttering over long, modal vamps and jagged punk rhythms, Fleenor offered a nonstop hour of new material she called “scenic overpasses” in a “liberation ritual.” Miguel Zenón among Earshot’s remaining don’t-miss acts 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

While Santa was clearly tied to rituals around good and bad behavior, to Dad’s mind there was something enigmatic about this rabbit that delivered those child-crazying baskets of sugar. Tulips and pancakes and other Easter miracles: My Jordanian dad didn’t quite get Easter, but the similarities between Lent and Ramadan moved him tremendously 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is poetry rooted in actual rituals involving nature, crystals, meditation and interactions with strangers. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Slated for performance at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage on Wednesday as part of Arabesque’s U.S. debut tour, “The Mist” pays homage to the chores and rituals of Vietnamese rice farming. Brazilian Film Week features documentaries about the country’s music

Its elements are simple: A show concludes, performers bow, spectators applaud — a “ritual form of acknowledgment,” in the words of Derek Miller, a professor of theater at Harvard University. The Show Must Go On, and On, and On 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The sketch pokes fun at a number of movie promotion rituals and late-night customs, like the way pre-planned anecdotes are passed off as spontaneous interactions. Amy Schumer Parodies Celebrity Late-Night Interviews with Bill Hader 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

His standard writing routine — an elaborate set of rituals inspired partly by the novelist Graham Greene — involves getting up around 4:30 a.m. to work with the goal of writing a single page a day. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Moisturizing is one part of a slow, therapeutic daily ritual for McHayle. How to Make One Rapper’s Lemon-Scented Body Oil 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s a ritual. Ritual helps us focus,” she said. Why you should still get dressed while working from home 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

For what Bernadette is really doing, in a ritual she learned in early childhood from another inmate at the orphanage, is renouncing a world that has already rejected her. Theater Review: ?I Killed My Mother,? Andras Visky?s Play, at La MaMa 2012-02-20T22:36:21Z

The ritual remained opaque — not nowhere, but not quite somewhere, either. Dance Review: Michel Kouakou’s Choreography Has Echoes of Ivory Coast 2012-11-19T22:51:01Z

A few regulars on the circuit were familiar with the signature moves and celebratory rituals of the performers. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Like all institutions, it had become padded by ritual, tradition and reputation. Restaurant Review: Élan in the Flatiron District 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

On the stand, Una recalls her own experience with persecution as a child living in a Federation colony where her family was forced to perform their cultural customs and rituals in secret. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Her rendition of the “Dying Swan,” and its automatic encore, were rituals between her and ecstatically adoring fans, as were the many bows at the evening’s close. Dance Review: Nina Ananiashvili at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-06T22:49:43Z

This new age of anonymous self-taping — ingrained for a decade now — is a further refinement of our ancient ritual, built on the actors’ one secure knowledge: We must always show passion and accept powerlessness. Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

And there are types of ritual objects — divination instruments, ceremonial staffs — on which Bamigboye would put his imaginative stamp. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Thereafter, “Love Sick Love” is a standard escape-from-captivity movie with an overlay of zany humor, as Norman tries to make nice while Dori and her grandparents force him to celebrate one holiday ritual after another. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z

Eventually, in the interest of increasing the congregation’s sense of involvement, a more demonstrative ritual was designed. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z

Although it acknowledges the lust of victorious soldiers, the passage insists on humane and compassionate treatment of such captives by delineating specific rituals intended to assure the women’s well-being under terrifying circumstances. Bifurcating Realities, Joseph P. Kennedy and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Tanya's body is prepared lovingly by the two men, who wordlessly and expertly observe the ancient rituals, washing the corpse then performing the same tender rites as on a bride before marriage. 'Silent Souls' revives ancient Merja traditions 2010-09-04T18:46:00Z

Sufism is a mystical interpretation of Islam centered in rituals such as the prayer chants Mohamed writes himself. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

A morning ritual for me, or as close to one as there is, is looking at the word for the day. Lauren Ambrose Just Wants to Go to French Clown School 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. T Magazine: The Writer’s Room 2014-02-14T17:37:13Z

For this program, that work is joined by “Nuptial Blitz,” which dissects the ritual of wedding photographs. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

On Site Opera’s contemporary-dress production, put on in a cavernous space in Midtown Manhattan, imagines the characters as members of a once-wealthy family that has lost nearly everything yet clings to the rituals of status. An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Store owners performing the hopeful morning ritual of rattling up their security gates. Frame: Neil Goldberg Exhibition at Museum of the City of New York 2012-03-02T00:33:51Z

Frank lives in a world of private rituals, some of which involve torturing animals, and has committed several murders. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

He is particularly passionate about the tea ceremony, a highly choreographed ritual that dates back to ninth-century Japan, when a Buddhist monk served the Emperor Saga a cup of tea. The Best of Japanese Dining and Design, Under One Parisian Roof 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

I was imagining us in the restaurant with its low lights, music, mixed drinks: a bourgeois ritual as common as dirt, but it didn’t feel that way. Modern Love: Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin 2011-07-08T19:05:31Z

I thought if I did these rituals, I would book a job. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The first painting she remembers seeing was a piece by Franklin Fireshaker, an Ojai artist of Ponca heritage known for chronicling aspects of indigenous ritual. With bold brush strokes and luminous neon, L.A. painter Mary Weatherford comes into her own 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

For many, watching the Oscars is a yearly ritual; the glitz of the red carpet, the predictable award winners, the awkward presenters. Seven Things That Will Be Different about This Year?s Oscars Telecast 2012-02-24T12:00:02Z

Based on a script by Anthony Shaffer, The Wicker Man cast Lee as Lord Summerisle, the leader of a pagan island where ancient rituals are given horrifying new life. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Women play all the parts in Half Straddle’s deconstruction of the rites and rituals of high school sports. Bushwick Starr, a Humble Space With Bold Works 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It shows the intimacy between the two and the fondness and a ritual. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

In a recent video interview, Mr. Radford recalled filming the novel’s Two Minutes Hate — a mass ritual denouncing the regime’s enemies — with hundreds of extras. The Children of ‘1984’: Dystopia Down the Decades 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But the last act delivers a creatively administered jolt of shattering tragedy: the 1978 military attack on Fela’s communal compound, evoked in harrowing phantasmagorical fashion with film projections and feverish ritual dancing. ‘Fela!’ musical captures complicated character 2013-05-29T22:58:00Z

In addition to Broner's writings on Jewish identity and ritual, her work included novels, plays and short fiction. Jewish feminist writer E.M. Broner dies at 83 2011-06-23T18:31:08Z

As in the dying Texas town where that movie is set, a demoralizing stasis prevails, along with a lingering pride in tribal rituals that preserve a sense of continuity. Review: In ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me,’ Reservation Dreams and Their Limits 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The two communities get together to enjoy the breaking of the fast and the associated rituals as they anticipate the new year. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

This frame restores the play’s sense of ritual, of moment. Review: Nature and Song Bring Electricity to ‘Gospel at Colonus’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The play’s first line of dialogue — the witch’s query “When shall we three meet again?” — is in this version also its last, as the limp, exhausted man onstage begins his elaborate ritual of self-torment anew. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z

Wines like these may have been epitomized by Beaujolais Nouveau, which began as a regional ritual celebrating the first wine of the harvest and became a global craze in the 1970s and ’80s. Flowery, Yes. But the Wines of Fleurie Offer More. 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

As the action transitions from almost pageant-like into a communal ritual, even casual movement feels lyrical. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Reconciling the Ghosts in the Attic 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

There were some bum moments, and Sue's ritual humilation of Will was way overdone, as those sorts of scenes almost always are. Gwyneth Paltrow ruins the "Glee" comeback 2011-03-09T15:34:00Z

At some point -- probably the '60s  -- filmmakers started to mess with the template, keeping the lush costumes and intricate social rituals while adding ever-more-generous dollops of sex and violence.  "Camelot" and "Borgias": Blood, boobs and costume drama 2011-04-02T18:01:00Z

This “Color Purple” isn’t that awkward — there’s a hidden eight-piece orchestra somewhere — and the framing of church rituals at the beginning and end gives the production a devotional, redemptive theme. Review | This ‘Color Purple’ may have won a Tony, but it’s cut to the bone 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Echols' "goth" style, taste for heavy metal and, particularly, interest in Western ceremonial magic made him a bull's-eye in a crime with the appearance of ritual in an era of "Satanic panic." Former death row inmate channels experience and magic into his art, on display at Copro Gallery 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Season 4 begins with the ritual discovery of the corpse — in this case a headless, handless young man found in a scrap yard. Review: ‘Unforgotten’ Makes the Case for Decency 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

In Vienna a Jewish clerk was arrested on a trumped-up charge of ritual murder. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z

He grew up in Israel in a Jewish family of Yemeni heritage and at an early age was steeped in traditional Yemeni Jewish music and ritual. For Ravid Kahalani, every show is a world tour

In another obituary ritual common on Broadway, Ephron's photograph was projected onto a screen within the set that carries newspaper headlines throughout the play. The final curtain: how best to bid farewell to much-loved actors? 2013-04-08T14:07:11Z

I don’t recall any ritual humiliations — you know, jocks thumping some shy nerd against a locker. 21 Jump Street: Rude Fun at Fantasy High 2012-03-15T16:34:26Z

Despite the barriers, hundreds of hardy travelers come here every year in late winter and early spring to see the quirky head-bobbing, strutting and wing-flicking courtship rituals of the flamingo. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent

Were these paintings made in a secular artistic spirit – or were they part of a religious ritual? Cave of Forgotten Dreams ? review 2011-03-24T22:49:00Z

Raquel delivered sermons and visited the mikvah, a ritual bath said to restore a Jew’s purity. ‘Transparent’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

She reminded me of the Eleusinian Mysteries, where singing and dancing were the origin of ritual, the roots of theater. Downtown?s Pioneering Stage Mama 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z

For the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia, New Year’s was a spring holiday, begun on the first full moon following the vernal equinox, and comprised 11 days of religious and political rituals. After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year’s still so rough? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

In these ceremonies and rituals there was an elaborate, physically specific choreography of mourning that embodied both loss and permanence, sadness and the reassurance of continuity. The Choreography of Public Mourning 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight IN a couple of weeks families across the land will open their local newspapers in the secular ritual of finding a Christmas Day movie that everyone can attend. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z

It treats matrimony as an organic entity rather than what it truly is — a human-made state, replete with ritual and contractual obligation. The Catholic Church’s new gay insult 2013-01-02T19:50:00Z

It does get affirmed when we get together and have these rituals and celebrate together. Growing up in "Another Appalachia" is more relatable than you think: "I keep finding myself here " 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mary Beth lived in downtown New York, in a large loft, creating rituals as performance art in which she invited the audience to participate. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

“The White Lotus” could use more attention to the downstairs half of its upstairs-downstairs story; it flicks at, but doesn’t really explore, the lives of the native Hawaiian staff busing tables and performing dinnertime rituals. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

A couple were designed for more public sites, such as the baths that were part of regular leisure rituals and social contact. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Add into the mix some cult rituals, which happened sometime in the past. but never allow those to be properly explained, or at all convincing. Not the Booker prize 2012: Paint This Town Red by AJ Kirby 2012-08-29T12:44:14Z

And with the music industry humbled by a decade of losses, the party is also a much-needed, spirit-lifting ritual of high glamor. ArtsBeat: Clive Davis?s Pre-Grammy Mixer 2011-02-14T02:03:19Z

It’s our first ritual, and it delights us both. Why Would My Father Not Want to Know Me? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

At first, the rituals took place on the hard stone floors of the sanctuary. The Artist as Healer 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The ritual of mourning continues throughout the day. In Greece, they do Easter with gusto 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

After all, the ritual of children placing their shed baby teeth under their pillows, in the hopes of finding them replaced with cash in the morning, was already being practiced by millions of young Americans. Don’t tell the kids: The real history of the tooth fairy 2014-02-09T14:00:00Z

The first lady also dished about a bedtime ritual with her husband, the president: He tucks her in at night. Michelle Obama's dream job: Being Beyonce 2012-05-24T20:49:07Z

Similarly spooky latter-day misfits practice occult rituals in the full light of day in “Midsommar,” a film about a pagan community ensconced in the remote Swedish countryside. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

As an English interpretation, and a non-academic one at that, it is not subject to the same rules of ritual purity that practicing Muslims would extend to an Arabic iteration. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

I hope that you enjoyed traveling with me along my memory lane, and that you will share your table in a daily ritual with your loved ones and enjoy life to the fullest. Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

I probably also sensed that such rituals were not so different from the ones writers use to summon the literary muse. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

But an Ailey gala is a set ritual, a glamorous fund-raiser as much about donors as about dancers, and in conforming to the standard of years past, this one sent a message of continuity. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z

Let’s be real: The rules are not gender-specific, but the rituals are. Carolyn Hax: Who pays? One way or the other, everybody. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Byer landed an MTV show, “Girl Code,” where she, other comedians and actresses would offer funny takes on the unwritten rules of female behavior and explore grooming rituals such as waxing. Nicole Byer is nailing it 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

There were rituals that the intimacy coordinator had us do. Was Broadway Ready for ‘Slave Play’? 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Intrigue may lead a story, but for Wolitzer the daily rituals of family always carry it.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

One longtime teammate revealed his covert ritual to Bill after years of swimming together. Does Michael Phelps just hold it? 2012-08-01T18:05:00Z

At the other extreme are those who believe that, in a time of crisis, the ordinary rituals of making art must cease. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Handover Ceremony, as it is called, is a modest ritual. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

I’ve adopted a new ritual: reading the print edition of the New York Times over breakfast and on my commute. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

We see the workday start in different households that are united by morning rituals. 'Life in a Day': a dazzling kaleidoscope of YouTube moments 2011-07-28T19:27:07Z

If, that is, the 2 train were a site of ritual murder. Theater Review: The Racially Charged ‘Dutchman’ at National Black Theater 2014-05-07T17:02:48Z

When he arrived at the studio each day, he’d perform a sage-burning ritual over an urn containing some of his friend’s ashes. Fans Were Surprised to Get More Gang Starr. They Almost Didn’t. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

That is like saying, "surely there is an ancient ritual in Irish Catholicism that allows a woman to become a man for a day and marry another woman." At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

We repeated the same ritual with Lila, who was very much unlike her high-strung brother. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

West African slaves, transported far from home, held on to rituals that praise saints and spirits with songs, dances, galvanizing rhythms and trance possession. Music Review: Mystical Morocco Bursting With Tribal Rhythm 2011-05-22T21:45:10Z

Going to outposts of the Japanese hibachi chain restaurant became a ritual when they filmed their travel show, “HeyUSA.” Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart Mix Business With Sake Bombs 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

But Hobsbawm excelled at revealing the power of myths, symbols and rituals, the intricacies of popular culture. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z

As an anthropologist of ritual myself, I can see that ceremony is at the essence of Burning Man. Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

The ritual, however, contains clues as to the direction of his presidency. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

He indulged in fashionable fantasies of Spenglerian racial decline, imagining decadent Europeans or Americans allying with dark-skinned “savages” in ancient rituals designed to summon demons from the deep. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

This small “botanical” store specializes in selling religious idols, candles, incense and other items for Santería rituals. A visit to Little Havana as the embargo that enlivened it comes to an end 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“We all come for this ritual that is almost religious,” he went on. Gucci Declares the Death of the Fashion Show Greatly Exaggerated 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There are Beaver Brook rituals, like the annual talent show, held New Year’s Eve in the Bunkhouse. The ‘Cabin Porn’ Commune 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

So too do the rituals and pleasurable pieces of small behaviour attached to writing with a pen. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z

Most of all, making a wreath immerses you in the comforting rituals of the season. An easy, elegant and strangely addictive holiday project: DIY boxwood wreaths 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

While the ritual of embracing fish is an invention, the performers are real fishermen, hired by Mr. de Andrade from villages in Alagoas. When Predator and Prey Are One: A Brazilian Artist’s Fish Tale 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

I want to make them feel safe within the ritual of the slasher film. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

"In Imperial China etiquette and ritual was everything," Yang said. Huntington archivist finds historic piece of China's largest book 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

In other words, people used to have many more rituals, but the feelings were much more intense. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z

These rituals are “part of the practice, part of giving back to the guru,” or teacher, “and to the school.” In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

You might say it’s the first of their primitive courtship rituals. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Faithful Miss America organizers and enthusiasts contend the annual ritual is here to stay and will keep changing with the times. Miss America turns 100. Will she last another 100 years? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the world of “The Plains,” which both is and isn’t Australia, the plain people and their plain speech also serve to conceal things—elaborate rituals, cosmologies, obscure passions, arcane knowledge. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

In “The Suitor” a sheltered young man fecklessly imitates the courtship rituals he observes in the streets. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

McDermott treats all of this as mysterious antiquated ritual, perverse Victorian rite and lusty variety show.  Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson tells the story of a peculiar ritual that takes place each year in a small New England village. Sunday Reading: Spooky Stories 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Once again, confrontations between an expanding field of reality-based movies and a growing pack of watchdogs, mostly of the armchair variety, have been turning the annual awards ritual into a brutal game of “gotcha.” Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s something about the ritual of going to the store and carrying the coffee around in a paper cup,” she said. Analysis | Coffee makes celebrities human. But it used to make them cool. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

“Our queer communities are embracing food more explicitly and intentionally and creatively,” said Ora Wise, the culinary curator of Queer Anga, an L.G.B.T.Q. wellness collective in which movement practice and food rituals intermingle. Building a Table for All: The Ascent of Queer Food Culture 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The traditional gift is linens and lace, but I decided to create a new ritual that is more fitting for my unconventional grief. Are You My Husband? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Yet its sense of ritual, mystery and spiritual anguish add up to some knotty conundrum that haunts me. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

In a series of 10 linked essays, Mira y Lopez treks across various landscapes — some real, some psychological — with an eye toward discovering what connects particular places to particular rituals or relics surrounding the dead. New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

“It was adopted later by monastic orders in the form of practices like self-flagellation, the wearing of hair-shirts, ritual fasting and the mortifications of the flesh.” The Age of Purification 2011-05-20T22:30:36Z

In print, “What to Expect” performs a kind of hazing ritual, inducting a would-be mom into a world of anxiety, alarmism and hostile judgment served up with an encouraging smile. Movie Review: ?What to Expect When You?re Expecting,? With Cameron Diaz 2012-05-17T12:30:00Z

It is made explicit in the original dance scenario of 1913, which details a series of pagan rituals surrounding a human sacrifice. Music Review: Valery Gergiev Conducts New York Philharmonic 2010-05-10T20:59:00Z

And, in the evenings, gathered in their satisfying overlarge apartments, they drink wine from goblets with the ritual air of people taking communion. Wearing Its Topicality Lightly, “The Bold Type” Is a Show to Warm a Jaded Heart 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

As extreme weather becomes more common, Ms. Hollander, 33, is interested in the rituals that evolve to prepare for it. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

It is not a ritual of sacrifice, or one long day at the mill or office. Want to reject America’s Puritanism, workaholism and toxic obsession with stuff? Read Jim Harrison’s brilliant books 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The production presents the conquest of Mexico as a ritual of courtship and, when that doesn’t work, boorish sexual aggression. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

For those who need to abbreviate this seasonal ritual, housecleaners say the following areas are the most essential: 5 Essential Spring Cleaning Chores 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

It is a holdover of ancient Slavic rites of spring, which were adapted into Christianity’s timeline, linking pagan spring rituals with Shrovetide and Lent. 10 traditional winter festivals in Europe 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The photos, from the first official photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, document a half-century of the court’s pageantry, people, rituals and social events, and examines the early history of West African studio photography. Fall exhibits feature hubcaps, Virgin Mary, and African photography and art

An almost imperceptible ritual would ensue: Mr. Eng made contact with a handler, who in turn whispered something into the celebrity’s ear. Up Close: Nice-Guy Bloggers Needn?t Finish Last 2011-01-19T23:06:04Z

My nightly ritual was to read two or three columns every night. Perspective | Ask Amy: Tragic loss has family reeling 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s an apt introduction to a work that discovers and develops its own odd logic, creating a novel ritual of mourning that encompasses laughter along with grief. Review: Play and Loss, and Unusual Rituals of Mourning 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Simmering clan conflicts emerge, the violence controlled through ritual. Picture of the week: Blood Sacrifice In Sumba, by James Morgan 2013-06-28T15:30:00Z

Animal Collective’s music is droney, impulsive, jagged, well-practiced: a low-budget, high-energy, full of texture, echo, implied ritual, and jump-cuts that startled you from behind and then running off in another direction. ArtsBeat: Spectacle Day at Coachella 2011-04-17T21:19:22Z

Our enjoyment of music, and the cultural rituals surrounding that enjoyment, is a complex and deeply social thing that engages more than just our ears. Audio cassettes: despite being "a bit rubbish," sales have doubled during the pandemic — here’s why 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

It was the story of a group of eccentric, impassioned students who studied ancient Greek and of a Dionysian ritual gone awry. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z

Mark plays on the court occasionally, but his main source of joy lies in the rituals of preparing it for others to enjoy. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Once there, the ritual is to strip down, shower while sitting and then soak in those healing waters, surrounded by bodies of all shapes and sizes. Japan Offers Lessons in Eating, Walking and Bridging the Distance 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The man approaches and begins an exchange — verbal but also physical, a pantomime of sex and combat — that reveals the primal urges that underlie courtship rituals. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The wedding ritual to which the movie builds is a vast set piece of narrow scope that leads to a tremendous frenzy. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Part ritual, part political protest, the video and stills of the action still have a strange power that is utterly singular. PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde 2013-06-14T15:50:00Z

Watch Mr. Smith’s Bobbie mimicking domestic rituals of grooming and tidying at manically heightened speed. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Bruce, who was no longer my husband, but still part of this family ritual, made the turkey at his apartment and brought it to dad's house. Gathering, grief and the pandemic Passover 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

This remains true — the show has a 2017 video of a ritual in progress — which may be one reason such esoteric objects have been understudied. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This ritual of remembrance, created with the visual artist Rossella Vasta and performed by more than 100 dancers, begins at 8:15 a.m. with a choreographed procession around the plaza’s central fountain. Dance Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Obama sees this ritual as an internal renewal of vows for Marian, akin to how doubts about God might be said to bolster one’s faith. Reading Michelle Obama's "Becoming" as a Motherhood Memoir 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

The fierce bear hunt is woven into cycles of nature and rituals of culture, all as lavish decoration. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s part of the ritual, along with flowers you hope somebody takes home, and music, and the occasional little kid who gets fidgety if the ceremony goes on too long. A Wedding Day Saga Ends With Words From the Heart 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

The sense of hapless beings ensnared in the ferocious rituals of some subterranean world they don't understand couldn't be more vivid. Review: Seattle troupe Manifold Motion turns old INS Building into a surreal labyrinth 2010-11-13T23:16:00Z

The human animal, despite its resilience, craves constancy, and it seeks this constancy through rituals, collectivities and identity. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

I always thought of the Plains Indians’ sun dance as a test of manhood because it involves some painful rituals. A Conversation Between Philip Caputo and William Least Heat-Moon 2013-07-11T18:37:57Z

But Mr. Evans was also engaged in an enigmatic ritual of physical exertion and formal control. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Why did you choose to focus on sex and seduction rituals? Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the wild 2011-02-06T00:04:04Z

The annual ritual harkens back to an era when cidermakers would invite clients, perhaps innkeepers, restaurateurs or the famed gastronomic societies of San Sebastián, to taste and choose which casks they wanted to purchase. In Spanish Basque Country, Sampling Cider and an Ancient Ritual 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

They were nights rich with ritual and glimmering with an understated glamour. Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Salon She Left Behind 2011-10-21T20:35:56Z

The ritual and the familiarity and the comfort of our church community growing up is something I look back on really fondly now, even though I don’t go to church any more. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

For many people, the holiday ritual of baking cookies isn’t complete without also eating some of the raw dough. Is the FDA being Grinch-like in raising concerns about raw cookie dough? 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Bereavement is complex today, he says, because of "the erosion of public mourning rituals since the first world war". How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z

We formed a line and knelt for a ritual bow, first to the teacher and then to the sword. Urban Athlete: Lessons for All Would-Be Jedis 2013-06-27T20:54:04Z

I performed a ritual of my own, ripping up the paper and starting a new list in the moonlight. My affair with witchcraft 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

It's a very tried and true both process or ritual and recipe. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

“It was a ritual that reflected a sense of place.” A Destination Wedding With Cultural Significance 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Every few months, members of The New York Times pop music team gather for the ritual Popcast mailbag. Mailbag Madness: Adele, Jack Harlow, the State of Rock’s Return 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

There are not many books as strange as Titus Groan, where everything is different - the characters, the ritual, the language and the extraordinary, brooding presence of the castle of Gormenghast itself. Gillian Cross's top 10 books about being different 2013-04-25T09:34:00Z

“Auto brew” was another kitchen ritual Ochs remembers fondly. Remembering Chris Cornell: The quiet cook at Ray’s Boathouse who became a rock god 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

But it’s also clear that for customers like him, a very personal Midtown ritual is on the brink of evaporating. The Fate of the Four Seasons Hangs in the Balance 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

However, tastes and behaviors, once forged, often do become ritual. You think 2020 was the year of sourdough? Look back to the Gold Rush 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Gomes’s rather odd imagination appears to flourish in the heat – before Tabu came Our Beloved Month of August, which delighted in Portugal’s communal rituals of that month. The 10 best summer romance films 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Then again, I recognize that ours is a death-phobic culture and that our public rituals for reckoning with our dead, especially those who die in service to us, are insufficient.  CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

Daily rituals, from services with singing, dancing and shouting to a boy shaving his father’s chin, move mourning from expressions of sorrow to utterances and activities that keep the dead in communion with the residents. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The German brand Augustinus Bader, meanwhile, has responded to a ritual that feels especially of our time — that of frequent hand washing. Honey, Used for Centuries to Heal and Hydrate, Is in Demand Once Again 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

But it also came because two contradictory narratives were colliding on television: that of the inauguration ritual and that of the new president, Donald J. Trump. Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Millions of us, despite knowing them to be irrational, daily abide by quirky yet soothing rituals. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

The idea of losing the ritual and the relationships — the Y said declining membership and upscale gyms were forcing its closure — landed like an elbow to the gut. Three decades of a pickup game ends, but the bond and friendships play on 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Their ritual is inspired by Jean Cocteau’s movie version of the Orpheus legend, scenes of which are projected onto those shimmering walls. Review: In ‘The Undertaking,’ Considering the End With Some Laughter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The songs were rituals of abandon, inciting themselves further with every repeated riff. Goat, the Band, Brings Its Ritual to Webster Hall 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Here the vampires elegantly cover their mouths; and have a strange ritual with gloves that goes unexplained. Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes 2013-05-25T17:04:09Z

It’s a ritual of mourning, a reminder of Baker’s racial struggles and civil rights activism, and of the era of police brutality and Black Lives Matter in which we currently live. Reimagining Josephine Baker’s Music in the Era of Black Lives Matter 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Death is transformed by a loving and solemn ritual into a near-religious experience. Poem of the week: Vigil Strange I Kept in the Field One Night by Walt Whitman 2012-08-06T11:26:00Z

For people intimidated by seeds, transplants will show up in garden centers in late winter and early spring, which allows you to bypass the preseason ritual of starting your own. The ground is cold, but the seed market is open for business 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

If he’s not, he won’t be able to perform the unending ritual of self-torture he has devised, which is all he lives for now. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z

All of the featured designers found aesthetic fodder in the garb, art or rituals that can be traced to the Catholic Church. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The fact is, no great work of art can endure being drawn and quartered for a polemical purity ritual. Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

And of course, several times a week, we sang together, a ritual through which all the other experiences were processed, cleansed and occasionally, made beautiful. Singing Together Again at a Broadway Reunion 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Most of us knew the ritual, and I watched as Luca tried his hand. Take a Barcelona day trip to honor a nationally revered onion. Yes, an onion. 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The show is full of ritual objects, often improvised by the two artists rather than taken directly from tradition. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power

The end of tipping means one more irrational thing rationalized, one more odd little ritual lost. Notes on the End of Restaurant Tipping 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

But it was just part of the fame ritual that everyone was more than willing to buy into on Tuesday night. ArtsBeat: Electrifying and Bewildering, a Classic Kanye West Event 2010-11-24T11:34:00Z

Normally, holiday rituals bestow a welcome sense of brotherhood and cheer. Book Review: ‘SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition,’ by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Now that we are parents ourselves, we are very intentional about Advent rituals since it is the best way to remind our children of the religious meaning of Christmas. Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy: Christmas glory includes the beautiful Nativity scene 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Magical handbooks from the time show that Greco-Egyptian magicians used fragrance extensively in their rituals, even scented inks, and doctors believed strong-smelling plant species to be more medically effective than others. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

It's a ritual, like sitting in the town square and being flogged. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z

I don’t mean Ackland’s black yarmulke or the ritual fringes visible below his shirttails, but rather the temples to freewheeling curiosity that he has built at this location and his other branch in downtown Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, a Bookstore Where ‘Freewheeling Curiosity’ Reigns 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Buff and wearing nothing but tighty whities, Mr. Walker preened and strutted and described his elaborate grooming rituals, drawing bursts of laughter. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Ever wanted to know why gloomy indie bands from rainy towns have something in common with the expressive ritual cycles of Northwest Coast Indians? Sleeve Notes: The Mercury prize gets the temperature rising 2010-07-23T14:48:00Z

The pop-up format captures some of the atmosphere of rituals and celebrations, and also befits the area’s writing traditions. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Yellowjackets have already relied upon ritual to get through their ordeal. Feast on "Yellowjackets" and the lies we tell 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

The use of the “Islamic” label was even more absurd when referring to a painting representing Hindu women performing the Sivaite ritual of the anointing of the lingam. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

Historically, it might seem weird that this is happening: the ritual christening, the reformation, this music’s third wave, Saint Vitus’s lasting appeal — all of it. Music Review: Saint Vitus, the Band, at Saint Vitus, the Bar 2012-09-26T22:12:19Z

“No. I’ve had depression. My periods of depression usually relate to the end of things. But I don’t have rituals. I’ve had times when my mind is not helping me.” Helena Bonham Carter: ‘Standing up to Harvey wasn’t easy’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

I am reminded every day of this fact, and I will continue to participate in rituals that recognize my own frailty and honor that of others. World’s longest funeral procession? 2013-06-06T17:30:00Z

For a month, he will perform this ritual every other night, alternating with one of his classmates from the school. Princely Duties at “The Nutcracker” 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

These are the tools Mr. Moore uses to conduct a weekly ritual known as a “sound bath,” for which he charges $10 per participant. Sound Baths Move From Metaphysical to Mainstream 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

In a small way, Lewinsky said, it’s reminiscent of the early pandemic ritual where neighbors applauded and clanged pans out on their balconies or stoops to celebrate essential workers. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Q: What do you say to naysayers who say this is a wacky hippie ritual? What to know about ‘sound baths,’ an ancient wellness practice gaining steam in the West 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

I liked the rituals of drugs, the cutting of lines or the psychedelic hikes into the woods or the drawn curtains, and I liked feeling elevated. Review | Rose Andersen’s ‘The Heart and Other Monsters’ preserves the legacy of a lost sister 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

It also recalls the Hopi snake ritual Warburg witnessed in the American desert. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

For serious dance fans and professionals, the participation ritual would include putting earplugs in prior to entering the venue, almost like putting on body armour before entering battle. Ask the indie professor: Is there a link between indie music and Gnosticism? 2011-03-14T16:52:39Z

When Ms. Ford originally contacted people and told them what she does, she said, they were skeptical about what they called a “hippie” ritual. Sound Baths Move From Metaphysical to Mainstream 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

As for many people, coffee is also part of my morning ritual—something that I do for myself when I wake up. I will never apologize for my flavored coffee 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

She plucked other details from the Argonautica, an epic poem about the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, which describes how Circe performs a purification ritual for Jason and Medea. Circe, a Vilified Witch From Classical Mythology, Gets Her Own Epic 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The French ideals of republican universalism, implicit in the language and rituals of the red-robed judge and the black-robed lawyers, are entangled in prejudice and custom. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

“This was a moment where the United States government was cracking down and suppressing Native American ritual and dance,” Mr. Murphy said. The Costumes in Modern Dance’s Attic 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

This is a ritual of mourning, not a gay-Paree nostalgia trip, and it is one of the most important works of art yet to emerge from the era of Black Lives Matter. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

I used to have a ritual: I would stand in the doorway and make a commitment that one day I'd have a film of my own in that cinema. Tom Hooper: 'At 12, I swore I'd have my own film in the cinema' 2012-12-29T22:01:20Z

Like many court ceremonies, the Confucian ritual that has been performed for centuries at the royal Jongmyo shrine in Korea, is meticulous and measured, stately and restrained. Translating Traditional Korean Movement to ‘a Language for Our Time’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

There is also attention paid to objects and rituals in life as well as the people and things that provide everyday pleasure. In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Like ritual and carnival groups around the Caribbean, the members were dressed in white. 2010-01-12T06:49:00Z

By the second half of the last century, as women began to join the work force, such leisurely beauty rituals fell by the wayside, he said. Special Report: : When the Box Itself Is the Thing 2011-11-21T13:01:44Z

Even the salty sweat purged through the ritual exercise of daily class felt like an unburdening, a purification that set a dancer apart from her unholy and civilian self. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

My pilgrimage to the salon was a well-worn ritual I practiced like a double-process parishioner for over 25 years. How I Quit the Bottle (the Hair Dye Bottle) 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

That's just how Emma liked to serve it — as part of a daily ritual Swedes call fika, taking a short break together to catch up over a cup of coffee and a bit of cake. A Swedish cardamom braid recipe passed down through several generations 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we see what might be a backstage ritual as Paul McCartney and George Harrison look into a mirror, seeming to prepare for a show. Celebrating The Beatles, Please Please Me Turns 50 2013-03-22T07:00:57Z

And in 2005 she completed Presentation Sisters at a convent in Cork: a muted collective portrait of the few nuns left and the domestic rituals with which they filled the days. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z

It's not hard to see why so many are drawn to extend the tradition, besides the sense that doing so is an elite club's induction ritual. Last rites for the campus novel 2013-04-01T11:31:04Z

So at this point, my analytical eye is focused more on the rituals of theatergoing than on theater itself. Perspective | D.C. theater is taking cautious steps back to ‘live’ with plexiglass screens and plays on headphones 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Video of the ritual is then published on Facebook for any and all to see. The truth about the “Ice Bucket Challenge” 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

An identical ritual began in a different room around midnight. Japan monarch spends symbolic night with goddess to end throne rituals 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Lizzie and I would make attending “Rent” a father-daughter ritual, on any occasion it toured to Washington or she happened to be with me in New York. Perspective | ‘Rent’ and I, we’ve been going together for 23 years. And not even ‘Rent: Live’ could break us up. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Warning: Contains swearing and scenes of gruesome bonding rituals. Close up: Jodie Foster aims to help scientists make contact 2011-08-18T16:38:32Z

We evolved this funny ritual, Quin and I. I am slightly afraid to fly and I went through a long period when I was very afraid. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

They feature alchemical transformations or show the influence of African ritual objects. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Yet the whole ritual is riddled with patriarchal symbolism. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

What types of cultural and theatrical rituals does your work draw from? The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

In “Hate,” a dozen blood-red figures crouch in a ritual circle, as if about to pounce on an unseen target. Peggy Strong retrospective raises more questions than it answers about her career 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

And just like every Thanksgiving prior, this year he’ll taste the terroir of South Carolina and reminisce on family rituals, but in New Orleans. When Only Homegrown Sweet Potatoes Will Do 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The professor encouraged parents and caretakers of struggling refugee children to establish routines and rituals and have open conversations about safety. Ukraine's refugee children: Amid the war, how to help kids suffering from trauma 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morris’s title refers to “cargo cults” of the South Pacific, the ritual response of islanders to Western goods that washed up on their shores. Review: Mark Morris Conducts at Tanglewood, and Offers a Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

As the references on social media to the train journey proliferated, must-do rituals emerged for all travelers. Turkey's 'Eastern Express' puts romance back on tracks 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Of course, there are pockets of resistance: a young Muslim movingly describes how much voting means to him, and the Ilkley bourgeoisie jovially relish the rituals of the ballot box. Review 2010-04-21T01:19:00Z

Many performers have a routine like hers, a ritual by which the private person becomes the public persona — Clark Kent turns into Superman. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Tapes were given as declarations of kinship, and the ritual of recording each cassette created the community of devotees that sustains the group to this day. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

“We get the whole ‘Rocky Horror’ viewer ritual thing!” Review: A New ‘Rocky Horror,’ Stripped of Subversive Magic 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Directed and written by "Perks" novelist Stephen Chbosky, the film follows these characters and their friends through all the rituals of a school year in suburban Pittsburgh. Review: 'Wallflower' a thoughtful teen tale 2012-09-20T03:27:14Z

We’re led to a disused space and asked to participate in a silent ritual. ‘The Dreary Coast,’ on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“These rituals chew up my most precious commodity: my time,” she added, with some vehemence. FOMO Is Over. Give In to the Joy of Letting Go. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

During rehearsals this spring, the show’s musical director, Andrea Grody, hosted the writers and crew for a Passover Seder — a ritual whose message of sympathizing with less privileged forebears is echoed in the final number. Onstage in ‘An American Tail,’ a Family’s Jewishness Comes to the Fore 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

The historicized past is everywhere I walk in my daily rituals—to get to the store, or to the gym on Rampart Street, or to my car to visit with Carl. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

There were no turtles that morning, but German and I glimpsed another predawn ritual: A pickup truck pulled up to the beach and four surfers jumped out, grabbing their boards out of the back. Next Stop: Traveling to Todos Santos, Mexico 2010-04-10T02:56:00Z

The nightly ritual will probably not be quite as flashy as the lottery draw, but the idea is Sir Alan's most daring experiment with story structure to date. Ayckbourn on keeping theatre alive 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

So will anyone interested in the complex relationships among art, clothing, ritual and power. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z

At this point, it’s an institution, with a coterie of recurring performers and its own crowd rituals — among them offers of “free hugs” body-painted on people’s chests. Music Review: Warped Tour Returns to Nassau Coliseum 2012-07-22T22:51:26Z

I'd prefer to explore and consume new and interesting foods over being fussed at with ritual for 75 minutes. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

I was enjoying my weekly ritual, the Top 20 radio programme. Family life 2013-01-12T08:15:01Z

Unresolved elements of the history, like the absence of a Jewish ritual bath, or mikvah, in New York until 1730 and in Philadelphia until 1786 are raised, but not adequately addressed. A History of American Jewish Women Shows How the Country Influenced Them, and Vice Versa 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

We analogize ourselves into understanding our place in the world, looking for affinities between our existence and the larger existence of animals, objects, ideas and rituals. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

But Gould was already markedly odd in his manner: gauche and abrasive, he was often absorbed by the increasingly arcane rituals with which he sought to control his personal environment. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

Jones worries about her daughter—not about her daughter’s own body but about her daughter birthing a son whose body she could not protect from “the ritual violence that had claimed” her own son. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

A haldi, or turmeric, ceremony is a pre-wedding ritual in which the bride and groom are slathered with turmeric paste, which is usually made with sandalwood powder, milk or rose water. Rating "Bridgerton" on its South Asian authenticity, from its hair oiling to the haldi ceremony 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Moviegoing isn’t really a civic duty, but it can feel like a ritual of citizenship. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The regular list includes oral traditions and performances, social rituals and crafts — from Cambodia’s Royal  Ballet to Indonesian puppet theater. What Does Unesco Recognition Mean, Exactly? 2012-01-06T17:43:35Z

The oyster shucker performs his rituals solemn as a monk, oblivious to the boisterous joie de vivre that percolates through this narrow, whitewashed, often-crowded kitchen and bar. The Walrus and the Carpenter would approve of the eatery named after them 2011-01-27T20:59:07Z

The Anastenaria rituals in Lagadas usually attract dozens of people from the surrounding area, but on the first day the poor weather kept most visitors away. Glimpses of an Ancient Fire-Walking Ritual in Northern Greece 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

“For me, the best attention-guarding ritual of all is reading — sitting down to read physical, printed books for long stretches of time, with my phone sequestered somewhere far away.” Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Some days, I feel like grabbing some popcorn and watching these videos all day, wallowing in the satisfying ritual of a good public shaming. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Passover is about honoring traditions and rituals, but it's also a holiday about enlightenment and evolution, about inclusion and progress. For a new take on old traditions, consider this passover grazing board 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

When a baby dies before teething, Mr. Nani explained, the family forgoes the normal funeral ritual, and goes to the tree at night by torchlight. In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Would you dare deny us this beloved ritual that comes just once a year? This Thanksgiving, don't f**k with holiday tradition (and give me my canned cranberries) 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Acquiring yen at a Japanese bank is about as slow and complicated a ritual as a tea ceremony. Japan’s Fukuoka and South Korea’s Busan: Sister cities a hydrofoil ride apart

Not every ritual of teenage life needs to look exactly as it did when we were growing up ourselves. Motherlode Blog: Increasing Limits, and Safety, for Teenage Drivers 2012-08-14T16:32:30Z

The school play is a cherished ritual for many students — and their proud parents. Did Your School Play Face Pushback? We Want to Hear From You. 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was the beginning of my loyalty to equipment, to rituals and patterns. I didn’t make the Olympics. Now what? 2012-07-11T00:01:00Z

That’s partly because it outlines the entrenched popular and political partisanship that threatens to render the democratic process a ceremonial ritual rather than a form of self-government. Movie Review: ‘Split: A Deeper Divide,’ Directed by Kelly Nyks‘ 2012-10-12T01:51:34Z

Alternative treatments, rituals and metaphysical organizing principles loom large in popular culture. Now Therapists Have to Figure Out Astrology, Tarot and Psychedelics 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The UN created its list of intangible cultural heritage in 2008 for traditional events, rituals and social practices. Sante! Belgium wants its beer on global culture list 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The ritual, I guess, was just investing utterly. ‘Succession’: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s ‘Catastrophic’ Ending 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The ritual of rinsing and soaking the fruits and nuts is significant because water reflects light, symbolizing brightness and life. For Afghans Abroad, Nowruz Is a Chance to Reflect 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The beauty of “The Devoted” lies in its intricate descriptions of religion’s hush and ritual. Sex, Love and Religious Fervor Abound in Two New Novels 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Gone is the stylish opening credits sequence transforming Dexter's morning ritual into a murder scene every week. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

At Svapnagata, he said the ritual fastening of his ankle bells distinguishes his classical work. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

And our tribe turns out to be a savage one: the countryside harbours forgotten cruelties, with the old ways untouched by modernity and marked by half-remembered rituals. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

The ritual of opening the gift is always better than the gift. Susan Boyle: this much I know 2012-12-08T19:00:01Z

That would be his co-host, White, who transformed the revealing of letters into a civic ritual and could provide material for an entire Ph.D. dissertation on women as subject and object in daytime TV. Pat Sajak Was the Center of the Wheel 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Or why the rituals of a distant future in which people can’t see so strongly resemble the more embarrassing products of 21st-century dance and performance art, or “Stomp.” Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

It is not so much a tale as a ritual; we like it because, despite all the many versions, it is always the same. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

In death, such characters become the center of rituals that ease social tensions by recalling that collective, unifying behavior. René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

A groaning rises beyond the blackness before a door opens on what looks like a pagan ritual in an Iron Age stockade. Walking – review 2012-08-23T16:51:25Z

Once upon a time, the transfer of power from one monarch to another would involve some pomp and ritual, maybe even a passing of a crown. ArtsBeat: Colbert Visits Letterman on ‘Late Show’ 2014-04-23T05:11:16Z

Performed by a company of 36 dancers from 14 African countries on a dirt-covered stage, the work explores the raw violence of ritual and sacrifice. Park Avenue Armory Season Spotlights Homelessness and Medical Ethics 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

To preserve their independence, the arts need to stand resolutely aside from the increasingly complex rituals of giving and taking offense in American society. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

"An upscale shoe department is a gun show for urban fashionistas," writes critic Camille Paglia in her essay on the accessory, "a site of ritual display where danger lurks beneath the mask of beauty." Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

It works a kind of magic, which perhaps should not be surprising since poetry had its roots in religion — as a ritual for both celebration and lamentation. Praise Poems: Ellen Bass Talks About 'Like a Beggar' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

And she subjects a grand, decaying structure fraught with the conflicted history of the sugar trade and its physical residue to a kind of predemolition purification ritual. Art Review: ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’ at the Domino Plant 2014-05-11T20:41:02Z

I learned the ritual that very first summer with my firstborn, when the August air was still heavy but the Target was suddenly full of pens and protractors. Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

Dew still clings to the turf, and there is very little talking as we go through our pregame rituals: the slow stretches, the light jogs, the marking off of the field with orange cones. Urban Athlete: The Ultimate Game: Disc in Hand, Expecting to Fly 2010-07-29T21:59:00Z

For me there’s this constant, daily actually, ritual of understanding that nature is all around us and we are part of it and we need to harmonize with it. Sam Smith Is Finding a Place Inside Queer Spaces 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

And such rituals would be easily recognisable to any wake-goer on the island today. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

It was a ritual; I make no apologies. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z

A group exhibition has magic — and the elements of ritual, iconography and faith that accompany it — as its unifying theme. Datebook: Kerry James Marshall at MOCA, L.A. in '92 and Mary Weatherford's brilliant abstractions 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Her scenes with Kidman can be deliciously uncomfortable as two of moviedom’s most sublime actors demonstrate the great white ritual dance around feelings. Review | ‘Big Little Lies’ returns with more (and still more) of its exquisite, high-end suffering 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

So cross associations are conjured between cult ritual, pop posing, mythical symbolism and advertising logos. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z

Partly it was simply the childish love of ritual – and the break from schoolwork. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z

They find consolation in desperate, frightening rituals, blurring all easy notions of victim and perpetrator. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

That ritual, with a vulnerable Sabrina quivering in fear while surrounded by eerie witch folk, is but one gorgeous tableau. Review: ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Pits Teenage Rage Against Dark Magic 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

This good cheer about the dismaying ritual of herding, shuffling, squeezing, starving, sitting and suffocating that characterizes air travel today? Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z

A triangle of light frames the rock in its dimmed space, where it sits as a sort of ritual object. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

He was far from the only significant cultural figure to participate in this ritual. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

A ritual Fang reliquary sculpture from Gabon, in Central Africa, for example, is juxtaposed with a microscope. Murals at Harlem Hospital Get a New Life 2012-09-16T21:53:05Z

The stakes begin to heighten after Leah performs a ritual in the woods. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Trump and Taxes’ and ‘Pyewacket’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

But over time, I became more interested in watching other people watching this ritual. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

These rituals are made up of traditions, which are the ways rituals are implemented, such as the preparation of traditional recipes and specific ways of doing things. Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

People can have a strong reaction to their team name, or their Boy Scout rituals, being challenged. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

For it’s not just about the product, it’s about the ritual: Fries as destination. Frugal Traveler: In Brussels, Frites Are More Than Just Fries 2013-06-11T20:24:16Z

Like many American wellness remedies, the drink is actually a repackaged ritual from another country — in this case, Italy. Paring Back Your Beauty Routine? Try Water, With a Boost 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

The old culture has not been forgotten, and by now — with rituals like the Tibet House benefits — it’s also coping with New York City. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z

Each has its own rituals: weeknight dinner, weekend dinner, family dinner, gala dinner, Sunday dinner, birthday dinner, TV dinner, pre-theater dinner, progressive dinner, pancake dinner, picnic dinner, winner winner chicken dinner. The Underrated Pleasures of Eating Dinner Early 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The album’s lyrics arrive in melodies like ritual incantations, and they reflect on journeys and wars. Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately the purpose of this ritual never comes into focus. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z

Circling the Kaaba in the Great Mosque in Mecca is part of the ritual Once they arrive, they must brave vast crowds and the fierce heat of the desert as they perform the Hajj rituals. Museum to stage Hajj exhibition 2011-07-20T09:53:53Z

So ritual apologies to the publicists who torment my mail carrier, and we'll get to some more discs soon. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't 2010-07-24T15:01:00Z

I think we also need to be turning inward and finding ways to do some of those rituals and customs alone at home. "People think they're grieving wrong": How the anxiety you're feeling right now relates to grief 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Can there be any contemporary ritual stranger than the piano recital? Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

The ritual starts with grinding Peet’s French Roast beans, brewing the blend, and drinking it either from a Wedgwood teacup or a hand-painted pottery mug. ‘It’s like your own little restaurant’: Why your hectic mornings need a beverage station 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

The obtuseness of privilege — and the mania that aims to preserve it with absurd rituals and at unimaginable emotional cost — get a thorough workout, even in such a short play. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Every year, Handel’s “Messiah” is a communal ritual — a glittering parade of recitatives, arias and choruses that binds listeners and performers together in a story of promise, betrayal and redemption. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

With him, New Year’s became perhaps the first native TV holiday of television: watching the ball drop was a much a part of the ritual as champagne, countdowns and kisses at midnight. Dick Clark, America?s Party Chaperone, Dies at Age 82 2012-04-18T21:25:48Z

It also seems to be good for your skin — which is the point, yes — but the ritual is also really pleasant to me and feels like it’s helping my skin even more. Tavi Gevinson Finds Comfort in Legal Pads, Canned Fish and Rumi 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

All music is ritual, but this, at times, felt more so. Music Review: David Virelles Continuum, at the Village Vanguard 2013-02-01T23:04:26Z

The Honors was one of those rituals, and resuscitating them will require a president who can demonstrate to Americans not just that the arts are essential, but how desperately we need their civilizing power. Perspective | Will Trump’s bowing out of Kennedy Center Honors do lasting damage to the arts? 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

It also looks in on Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., where Christian Hellmers applies an odd combination of homework and New Age ritual to his quest to win big. Television Review: ‘Horseplayers’ on Esquire Network Follows High Rollers 2014-01-20T22:25:15Z

The ritual roasting of the turkey came with 48 hours of no sleep and non-stop kitchen prep that had to be executed in the exact same way each year. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

When I was a teenager, Mom taught me to trim my nails, moisturize my elbows and highlight my eyes with makeup — rituals I carried with me into adulthood. Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The salon ritual would conclude, Mr. Nicholson said, with a post-mortem the next day. Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Salon She Left Behind 2011-10-21T20:35:56Z

It’s sung by a woman in white, Dora Morrow, who holds a flickering candle as if performing a ritual. Music Review: Young@Heart Chorus Sings at St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-04-26T22:55:00Z

The ritual appears designed to show the triumph of indigenous culture over colonial influence. Fight of the condor: Peru bull fiestas threaten future of rare Andean bird 2013-01-29T14:54:28Z

Or will they change the dramas that flow from its heterosexual rituals? Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z

On the one hand, the sculptural conventions attached to ritual art that he inherited and adhered to were considered sacrosanct, “a gift from God,” as he put it. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

The host who introduced us to Westworld, whose daily ritual defined the format of the opening episode, has had her regimen shaken by a voice in her head. Westworld recap: episode two – do androids dream of electric slaughter? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

And, like many Jews, I was taught that Judaism was not just a religion, but a culture — a culture made most accessible through rituals of eating. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

When a papal vacancy arises, the electors — Catholic cardinals under age 80 — gather in Vatican City for a session governed by dramatic rituals. The election intrigue of Robert Harris’s ‘Conclave’ 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

That sounds ridiculous, the peculiar practice of an intellectual sport, “less competitive speech than glossolalic ritual.” Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, Spain announced that its Ministry of Culture will seek protective status for tapas, its prized culinary ritual. You’re getting it all wrong about tapas — starting with the meaning of the word 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

As in the dying Texas town where that movie is set, a demoralizing stasis prevails along with a lingering pride in tribal rituals that preserve a sense of continuity. Movie Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The most mundane tasks — the morning shave, or hanging up your hat and coat in a cafe — become drawn-out rituals that fill out the hours lying heavy in your hands. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z

I try doing one of Jones’s more bizarre rituals every day. How to be more positive this year: 'Trump makes this much harder' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Unless you count “Some cats repeatedly introduce themselves at great length because their greatest wish is to be murdered in a Wicker Man-style death ritual”. Cats: the fur, the tails, Judi Dench's cannibal coat – discuss the film with spoilers 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of Thais watched the ceremony from outside the field, and broke through fences at the end of the ritual to scramble for grains of rice scattered during the event. 'We will be blessed': Thai royal oxen predict good rice harvest 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

But these bifurcation rituals persist because we crave certainty and we want it now. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

As a loose parody of spaghetti westerns, among other styles, this free-form film is a commentary on the Japanese fondness for rituals like slurping noodles. At Film Forum, the Fastest Noodle Slurpers in the West 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In all, the chopper gaggles are “a dominance ritual,” says Todd Gitlin, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. Trump’s favorite venue for making news — or avoiding it — is right in front of the presidential chopper 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The time for the ritual of Mid-Atlantic crab feasts has arrived, a highlight of summer for Marylanders and the Maryland-adjacent. Crab-picking is a treat, if you don’t mind slicing open your fingers while eviscerating a stinking carcass 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Those rituals, and the values that inform and support them, are reflected in the movies themselves. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein embodies a culture whose power is on the wane 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

As New York magazine reports, between 2000 and 2012, eleven babies reportedly contracted herpes – and two died – after undergoing the ritual. Two new victories for proponents of circumcision 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

More than 90 paintings, sculptures, photographs, costumes and videos celebrate the importance of dance in American culture, from the sacred rituals of Native Americans through dance forms of the Harlem Renaissance to modernism. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

That makes them hard to incorporate into conventional Hollywood rituals — like the Teen Choice Awards — when anyone can tweet their dissent to their millions of followers. 'Authentic' YouTube Stars Clash With Hollywood at the Teen Choice Awards 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

There are no straight-to-camera interviews or home visits, but rather a tour of the rituals and routines of municipal life as citizens work, shop, eat, argue and play. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Why not instead spend your hours in the warm company of your fellow citizens, reenacting timeless rituals of food and drink, the leisurely aperitif or the two-hour double espresso? Perspective | One last drink, maybe two? Inside one dive as Parisians say goodbye, for now, to their beloved bars and cafes 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

Catholic Church, will knock at the door of Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral on Monday evening as part of the ritual beginning his term as the city's new archbishop. Next Chicago archbishop begins installation with ritual door knock 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Each year the Cannes Film Festival brings another heavyweight lineup, accompanied by the usual fanfare, and the ritual grumbling. A Bit of Cinematic Déjà Vu in Cannes 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

As I got into it, I started reading about different dying rituals from traditions around the world, how people approach funerals and the celebration of life. A Requiem, Derailed by the Pandemic, Arrives When It’s Needed Most 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

He suffered from crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder, a slave to the quiet torture of the need to conduct rituals of incessant, superstitious counting. Sebastian Horsley: the tragedy of Soho's self-styled dandy 2010-06-24T08:00:00Z

Standing in place, they slowly remove their clothing, everything, with attendants behind them, then engage in what seem to be purification rituals of water and fire. Operas Filled With Forbidden Love in Madrid 2014-01-28T13:02:07Z

To stay more closely connected, they instituted rituals such as drinking a bottle of champagne together — via Skype — on the 23rd of every month, to celebrate the fact that they officially started dating on Oct. Their First Adventures Began on a Slow Bus 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Which makes it a pretty faithful expression of teen courting rituals, with their mixture of uncertainty and desire. Love Me Do: the Beatles' first hit is 50 2012-10-05T06:00:00Z

Today’s writers also find the world suddenly unrecognizable, exiles themselves from the tidy rituals of previous existence. Perspective | Writers of the past turned suffering into literary masterpieces. They might help us understand how to meet the challenges of our day. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Children must reciprocate this affection and be “peaceful” in order for the ritual to conclude. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z

At a moment when ritual expressions of American patriotism are being hotly contested, Carla Edwards flies flags of alienation. Review | In the galleries: Tim Doud takes a tactile turn 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

He invests the rituals, grandeur, wonder and hardships of both spheres with a powerful sense of the sacred. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z

Primarily in the alpine regions of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy, an integral part of these rituals remains the Krampus, in all his terrifying glory.  For the blackest of Black Fridays, consider a Krampus Christmas 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

He says that the Mass instilled a love of ritual, which informs his work, and he marveled that a gay Chilean man reported that Pope Francis assured him that “God made you this way.” Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

A perfectly cooked bird one year guaranteed nothing going forward but my failure to understand the ritual of bothering to try in the first place. Turkey: The One Essential Guest 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Prayer rituals in the Muslim, Christian and Jewish traditions connect those praying with their God, as well as with their fellow believers. What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

Dennis devastatingly showed that it is easy enough to invent a new religion, but that it will inexorably lead to sacrifice and ritual slaughter before achieving respectability. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z

He begged me to say something as I performed our daily rituals. Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’ 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

It also plays a symbolic role in religious rituals. Design: Coming Clean on the Story of Dirt 2011-03-27T19:00:06Z

As our news anchors lost their paternal mojo, we increasingly turned to late-night for our sense and sensibility, for ritual and reassurance. Farewell to David Letterman, 'a force of nature' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“The anti-science views of wellness and the anti-science of the religious right. Themes like ‘purity’ and ‘cleanliness’ with their similar rituals. Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Louis is better placed than most to pass judgment on the rules and rituals of penning . Louie is finally coming to the UK 2013-01-19T06:00:00Z

Maybe his text is politics; his rituals, comedy; his vestments, American media—but the gospel, I think, is an old and universal one. In the religion of calling bullsh*t, Jon Stewart was both preacher and disciple: “If you smell something, say something” 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

I would have to run modern errands — dealing with health care, paying my phone bill — but the ritual would make a welcome break. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

It's a familiar ritual by now, walking slowly through frozen alfalfa fields in the dark, testing the wind, then waiting, still and silent, for the sun to rise just enough to give the shadows shape. A Thanksgiving hunt to remind ourselves that dinner means death 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

“But this Chinese-puzzle-box movie has a deeper message inside. It says that most folks’ lives are like Phil’s on Groundhog Day: a repetition, with the tiniest variations, of ritual pleasures and annoyances. 25 Great Movie Reviews by Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Their masks and costumes belong to varying traditions and festivals—from the Toshidon festival, which takes place on New Year’s Eve, to the Paantu festival, an exorcism ritual. An Island of Monsters from Japanese Folklore 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

After the New York City marathon was canceled in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, thousands of stranded runners from around the world cobbled together their own rituals for the race day. What Philly taught me about Sandy 2012-11-20T16:40:00Z

Her steps to freedom are minute at first: engaging in a ritual bath of purification in a lake, and not a mikvah; declining to self-censor at an Orthodox Forum discussion of the role of art. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The ritual is painful and at the same time thrilling because it is theirs alone. Review | 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The scene is part of an ancient Torajan ritual known as “Ma‘nene”, in which clans visit the tombs of deceased family members, clean their remains and replenish the coffins with personal belongings. 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Doesn’t it turn the whole show into a protracted hazing ritual? ‘Cats’: Did You See the Movie? Let’s Talk 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

Inside the hut, he said, the girl would receive a ritual nick on her thigh, while screaming loudly enough for people outside to hear. Through the Eyes of the Maasai 2013-08-09T19:14:58Z

Whenever I leave my dentist’s office, he and I follow a ritual. Gene Weingarten: Let’s get to the root of AARP’s dental insurance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The morning stampede might remain a daily ritual even after Wizarding World is fully open, because ardent fans are desperate for a new Harry Potter experience and hope the Forbidden Journey ride will provide it. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

It succeeds — just — because it takes on qualities of ritual and pattern; it’s the least realistic party scene I’ve ever watched. Critic’s Notebook: New Men of ‘Nutcracker’: Papajohn, Tilton and Melendez 2012-12-11T23:17:27Z

Most of the original inhabitants of this Emerald Isle dies en masse along the very shores that nourished their lifestyles and rituals for eons. More Shabazz Palaces mystery: Sasquatch! 2010 poster, website prose 2010-05-19T23:31:00Z

So I assented, and the boy’s parents read the ritual phrases in Arabic, and the children nodded along and, without my understanding a word, they were married. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

When the ritual is complete, Damien is sweating and Lorri is blissful, encased in what they visualize as a protective sphere of light, flanked by flaming blue pentagrams and towering angels. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Inside a pyramid, a peculiar ritual is taking place. Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ a Sequel 5,000 Years in the Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

But I love a spectacle, and rituals are the way we consecrate behavior to foster magical experiences within ordinary acts. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Fleabag’ 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Abdul said of the show's dismissal ritual at the West Coast auditions last year. 'American Idol' embraces kinder, gentler attitude 2011-01-18T22:28:04Z

For clarification, this is not a Satanic ritual. Meme team: after Rihanna-Lupita, what if other viral moments became movies? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Human sacrifice wasn’t uncommon, as Ruz gruesomely discovered outside Pakal’s tomb, but ritual blood offerings that didn’t kill the subject were more frequent. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air

The woman got a ritual hug, a ceremonial brushing with a frond from the jungle, ate the healthy foods people had brought, and listened to and shared hallucinatory experiences. Ayahuasca: A Strong Cup of Tea 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Little Rock” wants to honor that bravery, using the ritual and communion of theater — sprinkled with soul-soothing a cappella music — to bear witness to what the students suffered and what they achieved. Review: 9 Brave Students and the Shame of ‘Little Rock’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The symbols suggest fabric motifs and ritual body paint, but the artist calls them “unseen tensions of the past, present and future.” Review | In the galleries: A visual rallying cry against gun violence 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The most thrilling set piece features a purgative ritual that Cervera executes with a dance choreographer’s sense of movement and a gothic artist’s eye for composition. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

The rosé people tend not to be “real” wine people, as you can’t help but notice upon witnessing their ritual gatherings, where wine is not so much drunk as englutted. The All-Conquering Frosé 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

So far, all the golden packaging promises more than it contains, though the technology definitely shows potential for ritual magic. Review: A Home Delivery, Shiny and Bright 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

But it happens repeatedly, as if the scribe were using his illustrative marginalia to show us something not about the text, but about the world within which its rituals are practiced. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z

He advocates for a Haitian patient who wants a traditional “protection ritual” before surgery, over doctors’ objections. Review: ‘New Amsterdam’ Puts Patients First, Subtlety Last 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

In a park, a close-knit family performs a prayer ritual. ‘The Last’ Review: A Revelation Leaves a Family Shattered 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

It’s my ritual in a culture full of rituals for the season. Lonnae O’Neal: The season of eternal sunshine 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The commonality of faith and ritual that had unified Western Christendom was replaced by a cacophony of competing creeds, each denouncing the others as impostors or worse. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Sometimes his work reflected the mix of exultation and terror expressed by the possessed in religious rituals. 50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler 2010-09-27T16:53:00Z

Everything in Japan is about presentation, ritual, hospitality. Q&A: A Round of Cocktails, Around the World 2013-01-04T17:01:09Z

Across the Caribbean, carnival reflects the history of settlement in the region, with European, Asian and African influences on display in the rituals and artistic performances. West Indian American Day Parade Comes Together One Costume at a Time 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Then came dances from the Abakua, originally a secret male society modeled on its African forebear whose rituals were once strictly private. Music Review: Roaring Back With Rumba and Religion 2011-05-08T22:25:58Z

Researchers believe the beer was likely used during royal rituals, including sacrificial rites. World's oldest brewery unearthed in Egypt's ancient city of Abydos, archaeologists say 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The braggadocio was more WWE theatrics than true inflammatory talk, just another Sullivan ritual, part of the giant gathering around this little pocket of stuffed dough. Pasty cookoff: A family tradition, stuffed with taunts

In one of the work’s strangest but most touching inventions, she leads the Act II Waltz of the Flowers, a nicely daft fertility ritual that celebrates the happy ending. Mark Morris’s Party With Robots, Barbie and a Nutcracker 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It is a ritual that soothes and heals. ‘Radical hospitality’ at the Hedgebrook writers colony 2013-08-28T23:03:24Z

Temporary paint has been used to commemorate rituals and rites of passage by the Kayapó tribe in Brazil, by Aboriginal people in Australia, by several tribes in Africa and by Native Americans. Wearing Paint Instead of Clothes on the Streets of New York 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

It offers clips from films that illustrate changing rituals and roles of wine consumption in our own times. Italian Wine Museums Appeal to the Intellect, but Not the Palate 2010-12-28T00:06:02Z

For me, football is a beloved fall ritual. 'Why Football Matters' versus 'Against Football' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

“Handbagged” does much the same, loosely dramatizing the weekly meetings between the queen and her prime minister Margaret Thatcher — a ritual treated with much greater formality in “The Audience.” At the End of Her Reign, the Queen Takes a Bow Onstage 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

This season of lasts, when every ritual, every event, seems freighted with extra meaning. Motherlode Blog: The Last Sweet Year of High School Slips Away 2013-05-26T12:37:44Z

Largely a mix of couples in their mid 60s and younger, disco-leaning gay men, the attendees sang through every number with the intensity of a therapeutic ritual. Abba Voyage Review: No Ordinary Abba Night at the Club 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Dr. Lofton argues that in an atmosphere suffused with Ms. Winfrey’s beliefs in miracles, angels and pervasive spirituality, audience members got to see guests participate in “the familiar ritual turn of daily confession and rejuvenation.” Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z

Fetching a simple cup often acts as a mysteriously humanizing force for celebrities — “a common denominator,” as Rea put it — because it’s affordable and often part of a daily ritual. Analysis | Coffee makes celebrities human. But it used to make them cool. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Despite the newfound attention, Slavonic is keeping one ritual the same — his daily beer. WWII veteran who credited longevity to daily Coors Light turns 102 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

Nestor Ares Cortes, who took first place, uses mostly black-and-white to convey the dark rituals of Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Review | In the galleries: Contemporary images cast a striking new light on the Arab world 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

"The ritual of the slasher and the ritual of the murder mystery is a construct. And within that construct, I want to be contemporary and make an intervention about this moment." "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

“What must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder,” the statement read. ArtsBeat: Gunter Grass Poem About Israel Provokes Intense Criticism 2012-04-04T17:25:16Z

This would seem the worst time to forgo what has become a beloved New York summer ritual. Critic?s Notebook: No More Silent Summers 2011-06-28T22:12:22Z

They’re invited to a background briefing, one of Washington’s most common, and little examined, rituals for the transmission of official spin, talking points and, occasionally, actual news. White House background briefings: Good journalism or anonymous government spin?

He extols the ritual of the ballet class, the importance of building on the fundamental steps, and the “physical connectivity” between the dancers and audience. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

And then participating becomes a social ritual — to prove you belong to the group, to prove you understand the shared experience, blah blah blah. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Being wedded isn’t bliss. Neither is hearing incessant complaints. 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

There are so many more essays to recommend — about Howard Hughes, arachnophobia, the romance of office supplies, a review of a book called “Jews and Shoes,” which showcases Diski’s pronounced knowledge of Jewish ritual. The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

And in everything, there is a deeply satisfying commitment to the ritual of working on paper. Art Review: Dan Flavin, Light Sculptor, in Another Medium at the Morgan 2012-02-23T22:36:10Z

Alienated and left to roam the streets alone, he slowly descends into mental illness, seeking solace in a reservoir of memories, rituals and dreams. A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, unmarried women often must be coaxed to sheepishly participate in the ritual. Perspective | Miss Manners: Bouquet toss should include only willing, enthusiastic participants 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

By the 15th century, the order had established rules for the ritual to maintain its myriad traditions. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

But there seemed an obvious self-soothing element, as well as a sociable one, in returning to the normal grooming ritual. Skin Deep: Hair Stylists Relocate Uptown After Hurricane 2012-11-07T22:35:37Z

On the contrary, it’s about the hunger and need for faiths with their own shape-imposing patterns and rituals. On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air 2011-05-12T14:27:20Z

If their ritual of drunken dozens is reframed as found poetry, the men were not so much outsider artists as accidental ones. film: ?Shut Up Little Man? Highlights Poets of the Profane 2011-09-09T14:00:00Z

“How a dancer prepared her pointe shoes,” Abbott writes, “was a ritual as mysterious and private as how she might pleasure herself.” Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

The prince, whose interests ran more toward opera and the rituals of the Catholic Church, never did develop a taste for the Stones’ music. Rupert Loewenstein, financial adviser who helped create Rolling Stones’ empire, dies at 80

The novelist Flaubert hated the rituals of bourgeois life. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

This piece was always going to be less about the ritual of Passover, and more about the ritual of cooking a celebratory meal, period. Alison Roman’s Seder Table 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hoffman recommended establishing a planned weekly ritual. Making These Resolutions Can Improve a Relationship 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

He had refined and formalized the endowment ritual required for men and women to enter the Mormon priesthood, borrowing heavily from his new enthusiasm for Freemasonry. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z

They often celebrate by carrying out small rituals that provide a connection with Earth's seasons. 10 bewitching facts About Beltane, the ancient gaelic fire festival 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Basketball, on the other hand, has its own rituals and artificialities and weird rituals, and I will sit through pretty much anything basketball-related. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

He grew to become a swift-fingered virtuoso and an audience-pleasing performer, though not a technician or an observer of the music’s formal ritual traditions. Manitas de Plata, Superstar of the Flamenco Guitar, Is Dead at 93 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The Academy also demystified its own ritual by opening its show to live streams, Twitter feeds and other behind-the-scenes moments that sometimes diminished the magic. A Coronation for ?The King?s Speech? 2011-02-28T05:33:01Z