This alternative approach portrayed speeches under a continuum from calm deliberation to extreme demagoguery, using genre to classify and criticize based on situation.
Stages of threat vary along a spectrum referred to as the predatory imminence continuum, spanning from low-risk (pre-encounter) to high-risk (interaction) threats.
Middle-market status is the halfway point of a three-level continuum of journalistic seriousness; upmarket newspapers generally cover hard news and down-market newspapers favor sensationalist stories.