They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives. |
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When I was younger, despite I lacked all the ritualistic, religious stuff, I had still devoutly loved God. |
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Strokes of the script gain a rhythmic and ritualistic hue as Raju creates divine and sacred forms with them. |
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Our leaders go through a ritualistic exercise, vowing to unearth the culprits immediately and giving them exemplary punishment. |
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In traditional Aboriginal society, goods were shared, but in a highly structured and ritualistic way. |
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Besides these formal organizations, Filipinos gather with others from their province for ritualistic and religious ceremonies and festivals. |
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So, naturally, humanist funerals tend to be simple and unadorned, stripped of any ritualistic trappings. |
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The poet's ritualistic performance, however, does not simply imitate a traditional daily Mass. |
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Every detail of life here is ritualistic, spiritual, and imbued with meaning, even the empty rooms of Marie's house. |
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A scene between her and a man plays out in a dumbshow in a doorway, like a ritualistic re-enactment of an everyday scene. |
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He developed severe manneristic and ritualistic behavior at around the age of two as documented on the videotape. |
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A one-year vaper and former smoker, he likens e-cigarettes to any other ritualistic relaxant. |
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It is ironic that in an issue devoted to the preservation of salmon you glorify the ritualistic hunting and consumption of them. |
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He's built on one aspect, kind of a ritualistic and performative quality in Duncan's work. |
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It is customary, almost ritualistic, to conclude a paper like this with a call for more research, to broaden the sample, and so on. |
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Of the endless variety of ritualistic folk dances, many have magical significance and are connected with ancient cults. |
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It previously would take place with beautiful traditional ceremonies and secret ritualistic sacrifices to the ancestors. |
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There are tears in his eyes, as though this is some sort of ritualistic experience for him. |
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In the ritualistic piece that preludes actual narration, the Chakyar depicts how he has come a long way down to earth from heaven. |
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Even if one has left his native place, he continues to perform ritualistic practices at his present living place. |
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But there have been concerns that the excessive consumption, ritualistic or not, of hallucinogenics like peyote might have some long-term health implications. |
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We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades. |
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The nearly ritualistic regularity of date night can be a great comfort. |
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The process of project selection is seen as longwinded, formalised and ritualistic. |
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There was even a free-spirited frock made of ropes, which flung about through her ritualistic dance. |
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There are all kinds of ritualistic ways of worshipping God: They will dress these statues, change the costumes depending on the season. |
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The battles now seem more like ritualistic duels than serious warfare, especially those that took place at sea. |
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So it appears that the heart of the Remembrance Supper has nothing to do with the ritualistic words or anything else we might say or read. |
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Comparative studies with data obtained in various ritualistic contexts would make the effects of the tea clearer. |
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We believe that a quality and level of consensus is required that cannot be limited to these formal, ritualistic meetings. |
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Healers can be ritualistic, but also may have an ability to use a variety of therapies to heal people spiritually, emotionally or physically. |
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Reports of ritualistic killings and witchcraft engender a great deal of fear in the communities. |
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This ritualistic preparation is not shown to titillate the viewer. |
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This man, a superior samurai named Yogo Zenemon, has been ordered by the lord, for his own reasons, to commit hara-kiri, or ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. |
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There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic. |
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The ancient Maya were imagined as a prehistoric, mysterious, ritualistic cult, ineluctably estranged from European historical and philosophical systems. |
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In India, the great 12 th-century poet-mystic Basava, who rebelled against ritualistic and superstitious temple worship and caste system, was a critical insider. |
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Designed for specific, often ritualistic uses in a traditional culture, these objects are prized as fine works of art by Western collectors, galleries and museums. |
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Ukrainians are ritualistic and religious in their funeral rites as well. |
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The City was enmeshed in ritualistic and religious concepts. |
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Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct. |
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Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory. |
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Students moan and growl and shriek and yawp, as if exorcising demons in a ritualistic ceremony. |
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This junkie is about to begin a three-day, neo-African, sometimes-terrifying, ritualistic trip. |
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In short, I tend to think the modern empire is fueled by greed and power and fear and other vestigial ape-politics, rather than some dark forces of ritualistic evil. |
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There were murmurs of the deaths being part of some ritualistic killing. |
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They repeat tasks over and over with a ritualistic and often perfectionist bent. |
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In this second part, Wayn Traub imperturbably continues his search for a theatrical idiom of his own and treats us to a flamboyant production full of ritualistic and spiritual elements. |
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In difficult times, these ritualistic acts may take on extra significance. |
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His early pieces made frequent use of ostinati and often had a ritualistic feel. |
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There may be offertory plays at harvest time or animistic, ritualistic exorcisms protecting children from being devoured by the voracious god Kala. |
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Partly scored and partly scripted, the work paired Adrienne Varner's muted piano with Miguel Frasconi's pealing glass vessels and wobbly iPad synthesizer for slow ritualistic sequences. |
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Post mortem reports hint at a ritualistic thrashing. |
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While, for example, a child's very dependent behaviour might have originated from fearfulness, his other behaviour might suggest that it has become ritualistic. |
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Unusually, these sermons do not deal with the subject of the corresponding Parashah, but are each devoted to ritualistic popularisation. |
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The ritualistic offender is much less common, and unlike the impulsive offender, he is much more successful in his actions and becomes very difficult to identify and apprehend. |
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The Spanish community has grown from strength to strength with the help of this ritualistic order and ceremony which has brought them magical results. |
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Aided by the mysterious and troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two uncover a darker world of brutality, deception and ritualistic murder. |
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However, as far as Ecclesiology is concerned, there is no such thing as a ritualistic or confessional Church or, in the corresponding case, a national ethno-phyletic Church. |
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In some way it could be said that biblical revelation is in continuity with this pagan sociological vision, but it breaks with it on the ideological and ritualistic levels. |
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Consequently, the problem for the Churches face is not primarily ritualistic, confessional or ethno-phyletic, but above all an ecclesiological problem and a problem of ontological communion of the Churches in Christ. |
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Beyond ritualistic incantations on African communitarianism, the endlessly worsening economic crisis is refocusing attention on insecure households. |
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Another aspect will address traditional and ritualistic practices that are harmful to children by identifying strategies and interventions to halt such practices. |
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They graze until their behaviour is synchronized, then the feeding becomes secondary and the process takes on a ritualistic appearance. |
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It was meant to indicate new responsibilities, especially ritualistic ones, but it conferred no new statutory authority. |
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Like an old cowboy myth, human space travel is a ritualistic display of basic technopower. |
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These pedestrian processes transmit culture and values and control character and personality. In these ritualistic common things basic values and results of family experience are transmitted into the unconscious mind. |
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Dismemberment, disembowelment and evisceration abound and Ayer delights in the aftermath of ritualistic slaughter. |
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In grasslands, listen for the fluttery, unoiled sound of California quail, then watch for their small ritualistic motions. |
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The fetishization of short chains of transmission in the Middle Period produced phenomena such as al-Hajjar, but in what sense was his role more than ritualistic? |
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Ethologists placed critical importance on the genetic basis of behaviors, which they saw as innate, ritualistic responses to environmental stimuli. |
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Denominations that descend from the British Methodist tradition are generally less ritualistic, while American Methodism is more so, the United Methodist Church in particular. |
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