ritualistic

Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.

It is not necessary to become ritualistic and fanatic, it's dangerous, your action should come from the heart.

It might stretch its wings up or out, maybe even returning them to their place against the back in a ritualistic , dance-like motion.

Misunderstandings often occur because men fail to recognize them as ritualistic, and women do not realize that men will take them literally.

Ritualistic devotion consists in repeating the name of God and performing worship in a prescribed manner.

By the time it opened to the general public in 2006, its clublike, ritualistic, highly regulated foundation was already in place.

Granny made it imperative , however, that I attend certain all- night ritualistic prayer meetings .

There is NO physical domination. Everything is accomplished through psychological harassment. It's all ritualistic.

A benediction is not simply a ritualistic closing; it's a genuine prayerful wish for God's goodness to follow the other person.

People try to produce the contextual practice founded on their own benefits, forming a ritualistic "social drama" .

"We can only guess at the high-frequency singing or trumpeting that probably accompanies these very ritualistic displays, " Martin says.

The ritualistic exhibition introduces the ritual of Ma deity temple in Zherong, Fujian Province to express cultural meaning of Ma deity .

Your ritualistic knocking behavior is symptomatic of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Call it tacky, rude, maybe even thoughtless, but "regifting" is about as ritualistic as giving away that lump of jellied fruit every year.

You are being paid to gather whatever information you can about these ritualistic sacrifices, and bring the true perpetrators into the open.

Early worship by Christians was deeply spiritual, ritualistic and physical.

Many of the accounts of ritualistic initiation bare striking parallels to modern day UFO contactee and abduction lore.

Lacking language, its impulses are instinctual and ritualistic.

It has to do with th at Greek Bacchic, whole P ag an ritualistic thing, " said Royce Chen '01, a former SOB. "

Moreover, in almost half the cases studied (46 percent), the killers' ritualistic behaviors changed over time.

There is a ritualistic quality to some of these disputes, especially Taiwan and Tibet.

And fifth, give people rituals and stick to them: most service--encounter designers don't realize just how ritualistic people are.

A-M-F's works are beyond just music and probably considered art of ritualistic noise.

In the same way, morality is not a ritualistic obedience to some exterior, imposed code of behavior.

an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms.

First, we eliminate all of the ritualistic and nonproductive activities that normally go with the job of CEO.

Hinduism is very ritualistic and includes extreme self denial and self punishment.

First, the study concerns the riveting subject of serial sexual killers and the ritualistic behaviors in which they engage.

It's not until you have been to a few ceremonies that you see the ritualistic nature and patterns in it.

long project on how football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an.

The Bangkok conference, like most primary sessions of this type, seemed to be the more symbolic and ritualistic in its significance