This is a hangover that actually feels like a slow-burning culmination of weeks and months of debauchery.
As she framed it, the tax bill that passed had been the culmination of slow, incremental work rather than a response to desperate circumstances.
After noting that as a group, emerging markets performed as expected in the fourth quarter, "concerns about the impact of slower economic growth, the culmination of some large projects, and conservative expectations for factors like touch capability, migration off of Windows XP, as well as continued pressure from tablets and smartphones has further depressed expectations going forward".
He believes this is the culmination of a slow creep of limitations that began after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Rather than seeing him as a cult-worthy personality who represents something wholly new in Catholicism, it is better to understand Francis, even in his stylistic deviations, as the culmination of a slow, if jerky, recovery on the part of the Church from its self-defeating rejection of modernity.
Nor was it the culmination of a slow process of fine-tuning over many thousands of generations.
Collins' announcement, says Jim Buzinski, co-founder of OutSports, a website devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletics, is the culmination of a slow, steady march towards acceptance.
It's the culmination of a slow burn that has simmered for decades in women now in their fifties and beyond, women from the first generation to have the opportunity to join the man's world, and who had to work so very hard to succeed in it.
That meant that simultaneous with the biggest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression of the 1920s and the culmination of a slow collapse in the legitimacy of the major parties was the absence of any "common touch" political figure basically, anyone people actually like.
For Keith, it represented the culmination of a long, slow ascent.
