I'd like to ask her, but this is a private ritual.

How peculiar that each couple should be dancing as if entirely alone and engaged in a private ritual.

At times the effect is almost voyeuristic, as if we are witnessing some private ritual.

So, she has private rituals of healing in an attempt to deal with the trauma.

You said yourself it was just nonsense - a private ritual.

They paid him no attention, each lost in their own private rituals of comfort.

At the edge two women enacted some private, toxic ritual.

Throughout, there was an interesting juxtaposition of the crowd with a single figure intent on some private ritual off to the side.

Alexander felt himself an intruder; he was observing a ritual too private for his eyes.

Clearly this was a private, personal ritual, meant for Del alone.