Directed by Joel Zwick PG, 95 minutes When Toula (Nia Vardalos) makes her first appearance in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," she has the kind of shapeless clothes, bad hairstyle and oversize glasses that invariably precede a Cinderella-like transformation in the movies.

Carr has developed a fluidity that was sometimes lacking in his earlier book, when the spotting of a famous bridge or building invariably preceded an incongruous lecture on how it came into being.

This motion invariably precedes, by about two seconds, the movement of the arm itself--and the arm never, in any instance, moves without this preparatory motion in the shoulder.

This word, as used by politicians, invariably precedes a statement that comes right out of their prepared package.

This is applied to phenomena in time by the schema of causation, namely, the rule that the cause of a phenomenon is another phenomenon that invariably precedes it in time.

Theaters Would Feel Pinch French movie theaters, which invariably precede films with 20 minutes of advertisements, are particularly vulnerable.

Did they invariably precede any physical consummation?

Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.