It happened this season with "Lost," and it reached its apogee on Sunday in an episode that was largely a pleasant, nostalgic wallow for the show's fans.
It reached its apogee on the last occasion when he went over the top and hit me too hard and too often.
It reached its apogee when Vladimir Acostas, writing on an official government website in Venezuela, declared that "we have the worrisome suspicion that this earthquake may be associated with the project called HAARP, a system that can generate violent and unexpected changes in climate".
This Anna-on-Ice quality reaches its apogee when Karenin has discovered the affair with Vronsky (Oleg Gabyshev), and in the middle of a violent argument suddenly suspends the scene to elevate her in a spectacular one-handed lift, at the height of which both pause for effect.
The moon is on average 384,400km away from Earth, but at its apogee it is about 405,500km away.
The trend reached its apogee on HBO in 2008 with "In Treatment," which takes place almost entirely in one-on-one psychotherapy sessions and which posits the therapist as a man as troubled and self-doubting as his patients.
The "social satire" reached its apogee on Aug. 21, 1962, when Mr. Henry appeared as President Prout on Walter Cronkite's news program on CBS, accompanying himself on the ukulele.
That process may reach its apogee on Tuesday.
That story reached its apogee on Election Day; even the inauguration was something of an anti-climax.
The anglo-French band's aesthetic reached its apogee on album number five, where they thickened the brew with elements of jazz, hip-hop and techno, helped out by post-rock nabob John McEntire.
