extreme case

Eli feels a strong connection to Noah, sometimes feeling what he feels, but as a man of science, he frames it as “some extreme case of transference-counter transference.”

Downgrading the triathlons into duathlons - and scrapping the swimming entirely - would only be considered in a “really, really extreme case”, he told the BBC on Monday.

“That this safety crisis is allowed to continue unabated is a function of too many corporations' business model — cutting costs by displacing cost and risk on to workers, and leaving families and workers on their own, even in the extreme case of workers being murdered on the job,” they write.

It is an extreme case of what is known as sexual size dimorphism, and one that fits within a longstanding narrative that male mammals tend to be larger than female ones.

That’s an extreme case, representing two people with high prescription drug costs — but it’s not outside the realm of possibility.