They are trying to tame their twitching, maturing bodies, select from a growing smorgasbord of identities — goth, slacker, jock, emo — and position themselves with their texting, titillating, brand-savvy female peers, who are hitting puberty ever earlier.
Pupils are asked to choose from "a smorgasbord of unrelated topics" and fail to develop a coherent world view.Sir Richard Sykes, a former rector of Imperial College London, recently headed a review of academic qualifications and assessment and is similarly critical.
Valente similarly stuffs the book with creatures from a smorgasbord of folklore: Spriggans, pookas, a gnome, nasnas, changelings, fey folk, selkies, hippogriffs, a jann, kobolds, glashtyns, hamadryads, tsukumogami!
I opted first for a lime and ginger salt glow rubdown from a smorgasbord of head-to-toe elixirs.
And, presented with a smorgasbord of foods to choose from, bulimic subjects structured their meals differently from normal subjects and those with binge eating disorder.
In reality, three minutes' walk from Reykjavik's main police station two sex shops sell a smorgasbord of films and magazines, from "Spanish Schoolgirls 2" to "Tranny-Condas".
Trading up in drafts has yielded a smorgasbord of talent, from Sanchez to Dustin Keller, David Harris to Shonn Greene.
This gathering features a smorgasbord of sound from around the provinces.
WEST NINTH STREET, from Fifth to the Avenue of the Americas, has a smorgasbord of picturesque houses, some over a century old, but then many village blocks have that.
