Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.