Every cult had its own peculiar rites and proposed every possible variation on human behavior as the only" means of salvation.

The trip is a political rite peculiar to New Jersey, and once, when campaigns were shorter, the traditional opening of the political season.

The main parking lot was far off down the beach, adjacent to the public pavilion, where each night Calusa's teenagers gathered to practice their peculiar tribal rites.

The Rites and Rituals Despite their aloofness about making political movies, the Hollywood crowd is plainly entranced by Washington - and its peculiar rites and rituals.

AS a child, Maya Kaimal MacMillan watched her father carry out a peculiar immigrant rite of passage.

It may be easier to forgive "Star Trek" for never looking to literary science fiction for inspiration, since it is so much a child of television and its peculiar rites.

John was born blind; his father beat him into deafness and, in a peculiar rite of penance, deserted the household.

In the peculiar rites of the company culture, from Almhult outward, class is always in the foreground.

There is at least one eyewitness account of the prisoners' peculiar rite of drawing lots.

Performing some peculiar rite of preparation, picked up from Fiona's group of neo-Druids?