ritual

This set of rules is based on a ritual verbal combat.

At best such rituals are cargo cult practices.

Often spanning hours in length, he transformed the concert into a ritual.

I think the whole system is based around some silly ancient ritual that we haven't been able to shake from our culture.

-- isn't an unfortunate side aspect of drug screening; it's the true purpose of the ritual -- the very end goal, in itself.

I remember watching some cartoon where some aliens are watching humans converse and they interrupt by saying "ritual gum flapping time is over".

These are usually religious writings, and I don't want to get into that too much here, but the ritual, as well as the great importance to me, helps me to practise this skill.

And while we make a polite ritual of men asking fathers for their daughters hands in marriage, this tradition dates back to a time when taking a bride was an actual property transaction.

If only there was a culture that had a centuries-old tradition of committing painful ritual suicide to atone for failures... I would totally trust those guys to safely run a nuclear plant...

Having completed the ritual, mutually acknowledging each others enlightened sense of worldliness, you return to reading the Huffington Post and checking Twitter.

Most of the developers tasked with conducting them suck at interviewing; many use interviews as a sort of hazing ritual, and most use them as opportunity to project their own subjective views about how software should be built onto candidates.