An operation to reopen the vagina-de-infibulation- isoftenperformedritualistically before marriage or childbirth.

He filled his pipe simply and ritualistically and then lit it.

Its head had been bent, and its arms extended almost ritualistically.

Then he chopped it ritualistically with his blade, forming it into two stubby lines.

Fred Goodwin has been ritualistically stripped of his knighthood -and that's about it.

This is about ritualistically presenting what we already know.

Yuh-vonne hugs Mary in a mutual ballet move, the women patting each other's shoulders ritualistically.

Birds feature, too, in the more ritualistically austere Sept Haikai, inspired by a 1962 visit to Japan.

As we have it, the bust of Nefertiti is artistically and ritualistically complete, exalted, harsh, and alien.

Members of the church staff, some of them neighbor women and the minister, ritualistically abused me in that church.

The shaman sipped ritualistically.

On the eve of his long-planned assassination, he ritualistically shaved off his hippy-length hair for a Mohican Taxi Driver look.

Now he, with all the others copying the movement, drew his outstretched right index finger symbolically, ritualistically, across his throat.

It's almost ritualistically purposeful in its concentration on narrative, as it shifts between monodic delivery and a range of soft choral dissonances.

He was ascending the steps of the altar, slowly and ritualistically, like a priest, wearing some sort of religious tunic, carrying a knife.

Since I stopped biting my nails (a symbol of anxious times) a couple of years ago, I love to paint my short nails ritualistically.