It is an essential rite of passage.
Internal convulsion is an essential rite of the modern Republican Party, dating back to 1964, when grassroots activists, rallying behind the Presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, routed the Party's East Coast leadership and realigned the Party along the Sun Belt axis.
THE entrance of the players, from the distant waters through the garden paths and across the immense verdant landscape, is by now an essential rite of summer here.
It was all a part of an essential rite in which his sharing of himself could make his demons go away, at least for a while.
In places where female genital mutilation had been seen for generations as an essential rite of passage, such declarations also serve to assure girls that their future acceptance and respect by their communities will no longer depend on whether they have endured this practice.
To Webb, himself once a distinguished member of the Marine Corps, military service was not just a patriotic gesture but part of a test of honor and courage, an essential rite of passage.
They affirm birth as an essential rite of passage within the context of a woman's community.
But what Critchley's arguing, with some reluctance, is that religious rhetoric isn't necessarily something an otherwise secular government indulges in opportunistically or by rote — it's an essential part of how government actually works.
There's a feral quality that's an essential part of the extraordinary visceral power of both the Rite and Amériques, and it's something that can't be feigned by playing very fast or making the climaxes very noisy.
Though not all these scenes were exactly civilised, alcohol was an essential ingredient of Cheever's ideal of a cultured life, one of those rites whose correct assumption could protect him from the persistent shadows of inferiority and shame.
