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...Comfort was needed and — as Judith Flanders demonstrates in Rites of Passage, her arresting study of a sober topic — few novelists provided it with such well-judged hamminess as Dickens....
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...like fairies, wizards and dinosaurs, are an early-years rite of passage....
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...To this day, it is a rite of passage in Finland to be gifted your first pieces of Iittala when you are moving into your own home for the first time, and from there you build your collection over a lifetime...
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...My parents had recently sold our family home of 47 years — hence the solo trip Down Under to help them move into their new flat. It’s a rite of passage, I suppose....
...In Basic Training (1971), young men go through the gruelling nine-week prep required to join the US military, but the deadpan view of the assembly-line process underlines how this rite of passage essentially...
...He wants her to help him “find the sound of being alive”. Yan’s lack of agency is mirrored by that of ghostly Bai Yu but she attempts to meet the challenge he sets her....
...It has become a rite of passage, signalling one’s place in the storied lineage of Italian leadership, despite the footings never even being poured....
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...It is the most common offence for which the Israeli military jails Palestinian children, and a rite of passage for many teenagers confronted with the constant presence of Israeli soldiers in their villages...
...Short seller attacks “are almost a rite of passage in the US”, she says. The Autonomy link will continue to unsettle investors....
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...If he had been a Maasai youth, he would, within living memory, have completed an important rite of passage. Alas, none of those conditions applied....
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