But on this recent Wednesday afternoon, the police had decreed that bridges were to be built, so Inspector Jan L. Rios called the two groups together for a recitation of the rules: day laborers on one side, police officers on the other.
Mind you, if you stopped people as they came out of "The Weeping Meadow" and asked for a recitation of the major political shifts in Greece during the second quarter of the twentieth century, you would be met with vacant stares.
It didn't take Tomiko long to realize that Finlay wasn't looking for a recitation of Tomiko's "greatest hits".
The bulk of the rituals concern preparing for and conducting the daily offerings of libations for the idol, including a recitation of a ḥtp-dỉ-nsw formula, and purifying and sealing the shrine at the end of the day.
Long passages are devoted to his social rounds, a recitation, for the most part, of obscure Russian names.
He composed patriotic works, Carillon, a recitation for speaker and orchestra in honour of Belgium, and Polonia, an orchestral piece in honour of Poland.
One senior administration official said that within the Bush administration, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had pressed for a public recitation of the evidence, which he had all but promised in a television appearance two weeks ago.
The meeting called together 30 or so supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) for a Quran recitation session where, by the end of the meeting, each of them had pledged allegiance to a newly formed group called Jemaah Ansharut Daulah or JAD.
Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle... say any of their names to a serious fan of comedy and you're likely to elicit a reverential sigh of importance, followed by a word-for-word recitation of one of their most famous bits.
Both "Prufrock" and "Cascando" are romantic, musical overtures, love poems steeped in concerns both grand and tedious, perfect for a brisk, unsolicited recitation among passing strangers.
Good teachers would see a hundred ways of incorporating education: education for use, rather than for recitation on an exam script.
