The world he describes is not, as Jen puts it, "a modern, linear world of conflict and rising action, but rather one of harmony and eternal, cyclical action, in which order, ritual and peace are beauty, and events spell, not excitement or progress, but disruption".
But where Mr. Coppola celebrated a shadow aristocracy with its own grand, quasi-royal pecking order, rituals and traditions, Mr. Scorsese imagined a world unencumbered by majesty.
Time saved: 5 min. * Skip the drink-ordering ritual.
A 10-minute telephone ordering ritual ensues that rivals Ionesco and foreshadows the absurdist mayhem to come.
Primary outcome measures were obsessive-compulsive behaviours, for example, ritual of control (checking), rituals related to order and symmetry (ordering), ritual of washing and decontamination procedures (cleaning), and obsessive thoughts (obsessing).
It involved counting and ordering rituals, but as it worsened she was compelled to qualify every statement in the diary — "Dad got a dead person," "We watched cartoons" — with the phrase "I think".
In each project, their choreographed movements are inspired by social orders, rituals, and political actions such as marches, protests, folk dances, and even "inventing and reenacting moments in the lives of individuals".
The need for order and ritual in the lives of OCPD people is "ego-syntonic", odd and possibly anti-social, but simply part of who they are.
Serving as a light-hearted reminder of where they stand in the locker rooms' pecking order, the ritual allows veterans to have a little fun with their new team-mates.
The order's ritual prayers (dhikr) are based upon thousands of repetitions of seven names of God, identified with seven "subtle spirits" (laṭāʾif sabʿah) which in turn correspond to seven lights.
His love of order and ritual might have seemed out of place in the tumultuous world of the bond market, where Mr. O'Grady, 32, was a managing director of fixed-income sales for Sandler O'Neill & Partners.
