Sentence:  `` The <WSD>pattern</WSD> '' , says Dr. Morton Schillinger , psychologist at New York 's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy , `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly , virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  something regarded as a normative example