| Whereas the humiliations of preadolescence are fodder for comedy in male characters — the squeaking voice, the pimples, the delayed growth spurt — in girls it's an age often avoided. |
| In general, independent movies for adult audiences, with no need to pander to marketing insight, do a much better job portraying preadolescence. |
| The same principles should carry over into the intermediate, or preadolescence, age. |
| 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. |
| Even battling evil warlocks, when tween girls leave the page for the screen, they largely hew to an awkward caricature of preadolescence. |
| Preadolescence is a new stage of life that represents the transition from childhood to adolescence. |
