The fixing ritual is the sweetest form of pleasure a man can have.
In corporate acts of worship, fixed prayers, confessions, ritual acts, processions, and participation by empathy in the acts of the leader of worship all enrich the individual's own worship.
By the nineteen-sixties, Kirstein's restless eye had fixed on Japanese ritual sports — judo, kendo, karate — which he planned to import as he had once imported Russian ballet.
In all three forms there is a relatively fixed form to the ritual: a procession that conveys the divine actors to the marriage celebration; an exchange of gifts; a purification of the pair; a wedding feast; a preparation of the wedding chamber and bed; and the secret, nocturnal act of intercourse.
Once a ritual became fixed within a medical compendium or a remedy book collection of recipes, either it could be returned to living practice in oral-aural performance by subsequent selection and use or, alternatively, it might continue to exist in a textual form without being performed.
It's the newest parliamentary ritual, now as fixed as the Churchill statue in the lobby and the old cry of "who goes home?" Someone in charge of an enterprise in trouble – a bank, perhaps, or G4S, or in this case the BBC – is dragged in front of a select committee and humiliated.
Ritual behaviour, established or fixed by traditional rules, has been observed the world over and throughout history.
In general, we use ritual to "refer to any fixed or stereotyped practice, behavioral pattern, or embellishment that has no evident instrumental purpose beyond communication or symbolization" (Winzeler 2012 ch.6).
To a child, family life looks as fixed and solid as a civilization, with rituals and routines and prohibitions — boxes of ornaments that have always been in the basement and silverware that has always been resting in the drawer.
All the families in this study followed the ritual of "doing the month" with some practices being adapted and others remaining fixed in tradition.
