The affair goes through all the predictable stages: a drunken one-night seduction in a foreign hotel, a clandestine office romance, discovery and family recriminations, the romantic affair turning into a bickering second marriage, the ultimate loneliness of the woman.
The Stages of Forgiveness People seem to go through about five predictable stages as they confront the issues that block their letting go and moving on.
Dr. James Pennebaker, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, and his colleagues have identified a series of predictable stages that communities go through in coping with highly stressful events.
Like "Buffy," "Dead Like Me" uses its supernatural themes as metaphor and counterpoint to the predictable stages of real life.
Regardless of the specifics, transitions have roughly three predictable stages.
However, whether these signs and symptoms develop in predictable stages is debated [ 4, 5, 16].
Free swimming zebrafish larvae show predictable stages of behavioral seizure activity in response to proconvulsants (Baraban et al., 2005).
For the progression of type 1 DN, there are five predictable stages: glomerular hyperfiltration, silent, microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria, and ESRD.
Nationalist ideology is, after all, a predictable stage in the development in any political culture, and Russia might pass through it painlessly (so I argued in my kitchen).
Many a song meanders through predictable harmonic territory and, worse, leads to a forced vocal peak.
