Analysts said the market's behavior on Monday indicated that investors had lost confidence in their ability to read the signals that stock pickers normally thrive on.

Athenians, who normally thrive on politics, say they are tired of the infighting and the impasse.

The axenic culture of some pathogens is complicated because they normally thrive within host tissues which exhibit properties that are difficult to replicate in vitro.

They discovered nothing- not the smallest burrowing rodent, not a bat, not even the insects that normally thrived underground.

Woods normally thrives in difficult conditions, but Oakmont has so far rendered him one of the pack.

"I think that was the biggest shock for me, that I normally thrive on that, and it went the opposite way."

Unlike the movies, it doesn't normally thrive under a tyrannical studio system (despite the glaring exception of the Motown Records "hit factory" in the 1960's).

Transportation stocks, especially the airlines, held on to most of their gains, he said, which was unexpected because transportation normally thrives in a growing economy.

One exception is if a plant has not been thriving normally.

Yet several members of the afroalpine family bear resemblance with species that normally thrive in desert climates.