Perhaps the most striking characters of Melicope stonei are the beautiful soft pubescence on the underside of its large leaves and its ramiflorous inflorescences, meaning that the flowers spring directly from the branches below the leaves. (sciencedaily.com)
There are grace notes of the same sorts of themes — grief, loneliness and misplaced attraction — plumbed in something like 12 & Holding, another snapshot of cusp - of - pubescence turmoil, but the nitty - gritty of dramatic conflict and the acting here are not up to snuff, quite simply. (shareddarkness.com)
But she is now in, or is entering, that hormonal tunnel of pubescence — boys, teen angst, simple rebelliousness — and who knows what might emerge on the other side? (si.com)