On Saturdays and school holidays, Juan Miguel would take the boy with him to the park, and on the mornings after Elian stayed over at Cossio Street, they had a long ritual of "little hugs" to mark their goodbyes.
Some guests sign up for the full two-week detoxification programme; I opted for "just" a massage, a long ritual that involved being rubbed in a paste of turmeric, gooseberry and honey, steamed in a giant wicker basket and rubbed in oils.
— when the long rituals started — but they arrived in Thailand still unsure what they were supposed to do, and Ms. Sutton, 30, scrambled to find some sort of instructions.
It was, in every sense, an unforgettable experience comparable to the kind of day-long ritual audiences must have undergone in Athens in the 5th century BC.
In 1979, Ukeles undertook her most radical project, "Touch Sanitation," an eleven-month-long ritual during which she shook hands with eighty-five hundred "san men" across the five boroughs, thanking each one for his service.
Isn't this what all rock songs - from Yes's 21min, 35secs-long Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil) to Freddy and the Dreamers Do The Freddie - are actually saying: gosh wow, look at us, we're in a band!
I would select a team of visual artists, choreographers and dancers to deliver Scriabin's exceptional Prefatory Action to the Mysterium, a work reconstructed from the composer's sketches into a three-hour-long ritual for orchestra and chorus.
In some English circles, the hen do is a weekend-long ritual of love and admiration for the bride given by her friends, who with conspiratorial help from with her fiancé, use traditional games with a dash of British quirk to create an experience that can be as emotional as the wedding itself.
It was probably the longest ritual that has ever heralded the opening of these Games.
Nitsch, alongside droves of devoted performers, stages days-long rituals.
This assumes that a practice must be a long, complicated ritual, full of gestures and ritual phrases.
