His reasoning is that educational processes cannot be studied empirically because they are processes of "normative initiation"—a position that as it stands begs the question by not making clear why such processes cannot be studied empirically.
She lay shrieking and writhing and that was my sexual initiation, a link between the erotic and the comic, make of it what you will.
He says he has always been in favour of "the power of initiation", a procedure that allowed a backbencher to stand up and move a motion for debate.
He has framed the events in Sweden as his initiation, a nearly supernatural ordeal, to be overcome on his path back to the everyday world.
T.M. initiation — a multiday instruction program that includes the bestowing of a secret personalized mantra — costs, on average, $1,000.
(A prime example is the Fleischers' "Bimbo's Initiation," a 1931 short that can be found on YouTube).
Swimming-pool and locker-room nudity leads to frenzied tussling, a bawdy frat initiation, a shared bed, a relationship anxiously servile on one side and gruffly commanding on the other, and, in the culminating reconciliation, a kiss on the lips.
After initiation a monk must adhere to the "great vows" (mahavratas) to avoid injuring any life-form, lying, stealing, having sexual intercourse, or accepting personal possessions.
Under certain conditions, in initiation a free-radical molecule (X · ) present in the food removes a hydrogen (H) atom from a lipid molecule, producing a lipid radical (L · ).
In Sikhism, the distribution of karahprasad, a sweet dish of wheat flour, sugar, and clarified butter, is customarily part of a worship service or of any special ceremony, such as an initiation, a wedding, or a funeral.
