“Thorpe, who has led his generation from preadolescence, is huge in Australia, the most popular personality on the continent.”

“Even battling evil warlocks, when tween girls leave the page for the screen, they largely hew to an awkward caricature of preadolescence.”

“Right now there is evidence of the garden's preadolescence in the spaces between plantings, the bare patches of ground, the room left for growth.”