“On the one hand, every culture possesses the desire to routinise and ritualise activity, to achieve its stereotypes in thought and action through re-representation.”

“There is this fear, and there is a desire to ritualize that fear by dancing.”

“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.”

“Jolynn Paige, a former teacher in Suttons Bay, Michigan, has come up with a way to ritualize giving compliments at dinnertime.”

“Throughout history, wars have been followed by ritualised attempts to assert legal authority.”

“It was ritualised, listless clapping, not genuine congratulation at fine play.”

“In a vernacular society, aggressive behaviour is highly ritualised and serves social ends.”

“This is a ritualized system of linguistic and behavioral interactional strategies allowing individuals to interrelate in a harmonious fashion.”

“Of course, when thinking of ritualized warfare, most commentators cite examples from intertribal conflicts in cultures such as Papua New Guinea.”

“At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.”

“By Africanizing or ritualizing common western objects, he constructs bridges to other times and cultures.”

“The rabbis mandated the recitation of marriage blessings throughout the week of celebration, thus ritualizing the event.”

“Chimpanzee youngsters thus acquire the majority, if not the totality, of their gestures by individually ritualizing them with one another.”