It wowed everyone who saw him do it, and Peter knew it ... but these days it was a painful ritual to watch.

Unofficially, it is struggling to deal with one of the most painful rituals on Capitol Hill: the slow fall of a public man.

The 30-year-old squad leader braced himself for what has become a painful ritual for troops who soon expect to go into combat - the final call home.

Following African tradition, Tashi undergoes the painful rituals of female circumcision and facial scarring, although she later regrets it.

Baker is wonderful on the numerology of dream books, the painful rituals of "processing" hair.

So began a painful and familiar ritual.

As if performing a painful ritual she checked the remaining months and years of the first cabinet.

And now Naomi would angrily counterattack, and the whole painful ritual, familiar to him since her childhood, would start over again.

In 2010 they called male circumcision a harmful and painful ritual that violates children's rights.

Certainly we got through the painful rituals of the burial all right.