Theirs is a celebration of moderate immoderation that clashes with the prevailing tendency to go always to the furthest edge of excess, especially when the subject is weight.
She accurately observes the prevailing tendency, exemplified by this book, toward the rationalization and valorization of anorexia as valuable (and even necessary) for the purposes of intellectual and creative achievement.
I am sometimes engaged by feminist or post-colonial interpretations of literature, but what I object to is the prevailing tendency to substitute this mindset for one which engages carefully with literary language itself.
In his later critical writings Pater continued to focus on the innate qualities of works of art, in contrast to the prevailing tendency to evaluate them on the basis of their moral and educational value.
This science-based approach also counters the prevailing tendency to separately consider (balkanize) 'contaminant' and 'Fe0/H2O interface'.
The prevailing tendency seems to be to use "richer" medium, in the progression from text to graphics to audio to video, for designing and developing e-learning programs.
