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But once Big Bird, like that White House Thanksgiving turkey, is again ritualistically saved from the chopping block and the Senate restores more of the House's budget cuts, the most crucial test of the damage will be what survives of public broadcasting's irreplaceable journalistic offerings.

a chorus of deep throats 2005

But once Big Bird, like that White House Thanksgiving turkey, is again ritualistically saved from the chopping block and the Senate restores more of the House's budget cuts, the most crucial test of the damage will be what survives of public broadcasting's irreplaceable journalistic offerings.

June 2005 2005

Let us ritualistically declare the name of your ship as G-G.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

That very evening, I posed the question to Anna as she sat in bed next to me, ritualistically brushing her long, honey-colored hair.

History Isabell Serafin 2011

They appear at the gate of his house, greet him, ritualistically sprinkle the ground with gin to thank the ancestors for such a felicitous turn of events, and then make themselves at home in the villa, in the yard, in the garden.3

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Brazil is a (joyful) riddle wrapped in an (chaotic) enigma, with the added complexity that the riddle and the enigma are ritualistically juggling with a football, dancing a samba, ogling a sensual mulata, watching a telenovela and sipping a lethal caipirinha -- all at the same time.

Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States? Pepe Escobar 2010

They appear at the gate of his house, greet him, ritualistically sprinkle the ground with gin to thank the ancestors for such a felicitous turn of events, and then make themselves at home in the villa, in the yard, in the garden.3

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

The violent, ritualistically Dionysian mock-savagery that some of their performances take on, though more theatrical than real, put the artists constantly at odds with the Austrian law and police for taking risks that some audience members deemed dangerous.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

They appear at the gate of his house, greet him, ritualistically sprinkle the ground with gin to thank the ancestors for such a felicitous turn of events, and then make themselves at home in the villa, in the yard, in the garden.3

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

They appear at the gate of his house, greet him, ritualistically sprinkle the ground with gin to thank the ancestors for such a felicitous turn of events, and then make themselves at home in the villa, in the yard, in the garden.3

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011