How To Use Ritualize In A Sentence
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Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
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Were they spiritualized, minimized, or did they fail to find fulfillment only because of the failure of the restoration to materialize?
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Sri Aurobindo's "prescription for a spiritualized aesthesis" rids us from the burden of "responsibility" dogging or any nagging sense of lack or guilt.
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But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
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-- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure?
Flappers and Philosophers
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The convenient thing in the traditional Christian Tradition is their distance from their revelations, they can try and "spiritualize" things like the flood or the miracles.
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It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it.
Biographical Essays
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Miracle stories per se may be crude renderings of the seamless and spiritual way in which God truly responds to the world but, when properly spiritualized, they take on value.
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At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.
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At lunch today we spoke a little about prasadam, vegetarian foods that have been spiritualized by being offered to Krishna in the temple.
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He did not see his seed, nor prolong his days, since he died childless; and we will not permit the word seed to be spiritualized on this occasion, for the word seed in the Old Testament, means nothing else, than literally children, which it is not pretended he ever had; and how could he prolong his days, when he was cut off in his 33d year.
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
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The term “apotropaic” is a broad term referring to something intended to ward off evil, whereas the word “magic” in this case, simply refers to any ritualized behavior believed by its practitioners to be efficacious, that is, effective. [
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Zoologists have known for over a hundred years that most animal fights involve ritualized aggression rather than injurious physical contact.
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These ritualized behaviors effectively sacralize the male body, making it a carrier of the sacred and a vehicle for public demonstration of connectedness to God and Torah.
Ritual in the United States.
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Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer.
In the Noon of Science
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So there you go, plenty to entertain you, spiritualize you, educate you and most importantly make you laugh.
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Bull fights are highly ritualized by centuries of performance.
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Art spiritualized, through unconventional spiritual practices and beliefs, is foundational to any appreciation of Page's visual art.
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Musical performance at modern fiestas in the Andes not only contains layer upon layer of meaning, but it provides a ritualized space in which the historical encounters that produced such meaning are performed again.
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Family relationships were systematized, rationalized, codified, and ritualized sufficiently to be employed in a variety of productive enterprises of small and medium scale.
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This is a ritualized system of linguistic and behavioral interactional strategies allowing individuals to interrelate in a harmonious fashion.
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While upper-class dueling had become rare by the 1840s, highly ritualized forms of working-class fighting continued throughout the century.
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With that in mind, we encouraged the managers to focus on reducing their alcohol intake during their evening meetings, ritualize morning exercise, eat more often and more lightly, and go to sleep at a designated and reasonable hour.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
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The ancient, highly ritualized practice of falconry provided another source of positive associations for birds of prey.
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Attractive, easygoing, affable, with their own ritualized jargon, the argot of the well-born Atlanta male among his peers.
DOWNTOWN
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The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Bull fights are highly ritualized by centuries of performance.
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The salat is a highly ritualized requirement, unlike Christian prayers that may rely heavily on requests for intercession and personal confessions.
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Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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By now the manner of writing about a Pope in decline is as ritualized as a Holy Thursday mass at Saint Peter's.
In Search of a Pope
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She thus criticizes church teaching that is too abstract or spiritualized and seeks to correct the traditional dichotomy between the secular and religious lives.
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Matter, once fallen, is spiritualized and made holy in the image of the Absolute.
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The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them - build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
Tony Schwartz: 6 Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
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The sell then, becomes an ideological process, emergent in practices of dramatic performance and socially ritualized behavior.
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After Maynard Smith referenced a paper that Price had sent to the journal Nature in August 1968 inspired by correspondence earlier that year between Price and Hamilton, they joined forces to introduce game theory analysis to the study of animal behavior, specifically to explain why battles between members of the same species, such as Arabian oryx, are ritualized encounters rather than serious fights.
SuperCooperators
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Will it scatter my courage and dull my mind? — despiritualize me completely — does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure?
Flappers and Philosophers
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Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Of course, when thinking of ritualized warfare, most commentators cite examples from intertribal conflicts in cultures such as Papua New Guinea.
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Two somewhat ritualized markers of politeness are the offering of tea, coffee, and sweets to house visitors and taking turns buying rounds of drinks at a pub.
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Gender is seen as a “performative ritualized practice”.
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The researchers used a laser vibrometer to record vibrations produced during interactions between members of 11 species of caterpillar and compared the vibrations of non-signaling movements (such as crawling or pushing) to the ritualized vibrations.
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If literacy introduces John to the spirituality of the text, it also seems to spiritualize Lucy.
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During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized
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The 15th century saw a decline in the real value of chivalry, and though new orders, such as the Order of the Golden Fleece were created, tournaments survived merely as ritualized ceremonies.
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This vision of a new beginning in a pure and untrammeled land served to spiritualize the past where there were no antique monuments to do so.
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You simply can't think your way out of it, or "spiritualize" your way our of it.
A Proud Racist?
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And the songs are bouncy, fast-paced and even a little elegant - perfect for the kinds of celebratory and ritualized dances that they are designed to accompany.
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The gray-haired soap box orator in the tattered Mao jacket responded to the gaze of our camera by climbing up on the top of a trishaw, waving his hands at us in a ritualized, almost theatrical way, not unlike the way officials did on TV.
WORKING CLASS HEROES
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Like the ritualized steps of a dance, all the conventions of these parties humanize basic instincts into social graces and incorporate atomized individuals into a civilized community.
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Well, his choice of music wasn't too bad to start with (Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Mazzy Star, Spiritualized) but I missed all those and had the misfortune to tune into Limp Bizkit (gak), Swervedriver (yawn), Christina Aguilera (what the
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Courtship involves aerial displays in some species; in many others it may only involve ritualized feeding in which the male brings food to the female.
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For instance, because rodents drum with feet that are also used for digging, footdrumming may have originated as a ritualized form of digging behavior, especially in fossorial mammals.
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The school year is highly ritualized from the opening day of classes to graduation, with celebrations and performances, some of which involve parents.
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot
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At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.
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They hyper-spiritualize everything, and this story of Mary and Martha is one of the classic ones that she meditates on a lot.
The Better Part
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One place to begin is a closer examination of the root experiences which have typically led philosophers and theologians to spiritualize the universe.
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum
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We ritualize this process to make sure we don't allow the grief of great tragedies to blind us with mob fury, inflamed judgments and uninformed reasoning.
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Over the ages, customs and myths have arisen to encourage -- to ritualize -- a summer mating season in order to ensure a successful procreation.
Donna Henes: Summer Fevers
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_ When the progress of thought, especially in Greece, made it impossible to accept the current beliefs concerning gods and their doings, it was felt necessary to put some higher meaning into them -- they were rationalized and spiritualized by a process of allegorization.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.
Irene Monroe: The Gandhi None of Us Knew
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It's an intuitive act, and you have to flow with it, whereas meditation is far more ritualized discipline, to reach that basic state where one is in control of the mind, where one is 100 percent focused.
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot
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Love in the world made by Moran was filled with threats of violence, bullying efforts to control and the need to ritualize.
Takes One To Know One: A Masterful Irish Novelist
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The agonistic behavior of many group-living animals, such as wintering passerines, ranges from overt aggression to more or less ritualized threat displays.
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In this intricate system of exchange, community is founded on a ritualized recognition of interdependence.
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The ancient, highly ritualized practice of falconry provided another source of positive associations for birds of prey.
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Culture is expressed through the use of language, the choice of setting and ritualized behaviours, all of which heighten shared understanding.
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How does Hope "spiritualize" the earth, i.e., make it purer?
The Elson Readers, Book 5
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This center is the fountainhead of all our animal forces, which can be spiritualized and used for our best advantage by gaining absolute control over this center.
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Though tediously drawn-out, the ritualized debates reveal little of how the successful candidate will really perform once in office.
Carne Ross: Down With Leadership
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Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades.
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The practice among surgical staff members of scrubbing the hands before surgery has been highly regimented and ritualized.
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The wedding pictures of almost any couple include these ritualized customs: cutting the cake and dancing the waltz.
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The Vatican manuscript, however, problematizes such a straightforward reading because, as this article contends, ritualized depiction is not the same as ritual itself.
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People of the Ancient World didn't spiritualize the way they did to be cool, or to be rebellious.
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For one thing, this overlap reminds us that a holistic spirituality should be neither individualistic nor spiritualized.
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Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to gut emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight.
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Many are of great beauty and delicacy, others veer toward the new - ageish and psycho - spiritualized.
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In this intricate system of exchange, community is founded on a ritualized recognition of interdependence.
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That is why they manipulate, that is why they ritualize emotion.
Breakdowns
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It is difficult to render this word in the sense in which Rathenau uses it; 'intellectualized' does not say enough, and 'spiritualized' says a little too much.] [Footnote 32: Assuming that the highest output is reached in the particular instance which of course will not be the case with every worker whether in the mechanical or intellectual sphere.
The New Society
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind spiritualizes film by novelizing it and poeticizing it at the same time.
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At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.
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Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized.
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With rapt fascination I watched the ritualized escape attempt and re-entrapment of the hero every week.
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The arts were the means by which these forces could be ritualized and expressed in a new, simulated reality.
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If you don't ritualize a specific bedtime, you'll end up finding ways to stay up later, just the way you do now.
Why Sleep Is More Important Than Food
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Sensation usurped reason, and he was quivering and palpitant with emotions he had never known, drifting deliciously on a sea of sensibility where feeling itself was exalted and spiritualized and carried beyond the summits of life.
Chapter 3
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“The function of the state is to enlighten, to develop, to increase, to fortify, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of a nation.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Senate’s Underpants Gnome Problem
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The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures
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This we celebrate in baptism, by the metanoia ritualized in our renunciations and affirmations, our promises, and our commitment to the church's faith.
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Meals are ritualized, and full of social and cultural meaning.
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What are the criteria that determine what should be spiritualized?
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In its beginning stages, such a relationship is basically a spiritualized child-parent “interaction” — in which God is little more than Santa Claus in holy drag — but in its mature stages, such a relationship is profoundly intimate, unplagued by parent/child transference issues, fundamentalism, egoic agendas, and other souvenirs of unresolved wounds.
Robert Masters - God as the Ultimate You
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His mother has become deified and spiritualized by the Indian crowd.
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With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and ritualize our love of life.
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: What Would A 'Conscious Judaism' Look Like?
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‘As writer and profeminist activist John Stoltenberg explains, patriarchal culture ‘romanticizes, spiritualizes, emotionalizes and psychologizes the right of men to own women… as property.’
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Many people have ritualized ideas regarding their use of TV.
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They might spiritualize the prophesy and say that something spiritual happened that can't be seen, but nevertheless the prophecy was fulfilled," says Catherine Wessinger, a professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans, who has written about apocalyptic movements.
End of World Prophecy Attracts Followers, Provokes Ridicule
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And there's a ritualized aspect to this austerity talk, one that's worthy of ethnological study.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money
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Attractive, easygoing, affable, with their own ritualized jargon, the argot of the well-born Atlanta male among his peers.
DOWNTOWN
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The wedding pictures of almost any couple include these ritualized customs: cutting the cake and dancing the waltz.
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But what happened in modern societies where ritualized mourning had died out?
COMPULSION
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The violence is more ritualized than in, say, American gangster films, so that it seems both shocking and unreal at the same time.
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At the same time, they ascribed to the spiritualized Ideas which they called daimones (spirits) all actuality, intelligence, and force in the whole universe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Wartime instates the highly ritualized protocols of what we might call the officer class or brotherhood of officers.
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In Korea, like Japan, walking into a shop or restaurant will usually result in a hail of welcomes and other ritualized greetings from the employees.
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A ritualized fight will often proceed through several stages, like a tournament.
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The asado is a form of barbecue that ritualizes the act of preparing the hot coals and the world-renowned beef of Argentina.
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