Every Friday between noon and six pm when Engineering student's a Queen's gather at Clark Hall to celebrate a long and hard week by having a couple drinks.
Rituals are predefined sequences characterized by rigidity, formality, and repetition that are embedded in a larger system of symbolism and meaning but contain elements that lack direct instrumental purpose.
(1) The footballer is going through their pre-game ritual. Don't disturb them.
(2) That fraternity/society has a specific hazing ritual.
Oral sex; fellatio; blow job. The act of using one's mouth to stimulate a guy's penis for the purpose of sexual gratification.
I really can't find much fault with Monica Lewinsky...if I had had a chance to perform the ritual Hoover on the President, I would have done it, if for no other reason than to have an incredible story to tell my grandchildren one day.
When 2 parents love each other very much they seclude themselves in a room (normally a bedroom) and perform it in the Tunnel of Life. If the great stork accepts the ritual then in about 9 months a baby will enter the world through the Tunnel of Life.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.