Until now, we've merely been witnessing a soft-shoe shuffle – a debate here, a hi-vis photocall there, Joey Essex everywhere else – that only really coalesced into anything meaningful when the parties unveiled their manifestos this week.
Fury at corruption and nepotism, youth unemployment at 28.7%, low wages and limited job opportunities that force qualified Bulgarians to find work overseas, and a sense that those in power have for too long put their own interests above those of the country, have coalesced this year into one long pulse of anger.
A few kilometres south of Kantipath, in the neighbourhood of Sanepa, a local community of cyclists has coalesced around Base Camp.
A dozen national stereotypes had coalesced in one man.
But they never coalesced.
The handset-makers have coalesced around three "ecosystems": Google's Android, Apple's iOS and, in distant third place, Microsoft's Windows.
Now it is real.Yet even as the Israeli mainstream has coalesced, several large fringe groups are becoming more detached.
Had Labour cut a deal with the Lib Dems, his all-round niceness and lack of tribalism would probably have made him a shoo-in to succeed Mr Brown.In this section A not very odd couple Learning how to share Sprucing up democracy Emerging from the shadow Why Cameron coalesced Good news, for hobbits Finis The love-in ReprintsYet there are doubts.
Many believe the HBS graduate would have won a second-round run-off against Mr Ortega, as anti-Sandinista forces coalesced around his candidacy.Something brewingConcordia University in Montreal is set to begin the construction of a new building to house the John Molson School of Business.
Again, look to Venezuela, where the opposition held a primary this year and coalesced around a single challenger to Mr Chávez.Oh what a circus, oh what a showArgentina's lurch to the left is also a warning to its social-democratic neighbours.
As Alun Anderson, a science journalist writing in The World in 2014, explains:"Comets are fossils, made of material left over as the planets coalesced from a giant cloud of dust whirling around the newborn sun 4.6 billion years ago.
