| Thorpe, who has led his generation from preadolescence, is huge in Australia, the most popular personality on the continent. |
| When McEnroe launched his partnership with the Sportime Randall's Island Tennis Center in 2010, he said he wanted to challenge the industry orthodoxy that called for full immersion in the sport from preadolescence on. |
| The same principles should carry over into the intermediate, or preadolescence, age. |
| In general, independent movies for adult audiences, with no need to pander to marketing insight, do a much better job portraying preadolescence. |
| Even battling evil warlocks, when tween girls leave the page for the screen, they largely hew to an awkward caricature of preadolescence. |
| 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. |
