Welch said that her favorite English teacher had gone to Princeton, so she applied, without telling him.
Such pat truisms have a limited utility, especially when we find them applied without alteration to artists as diverse as Chris Ofili, Kerry James Marshall, and Kehinde Wiley.
After being rejected by his first choice, Nihon Falcom, he applied to Square without expecting to be hired, as they had many applicants for the job and he had never played any of the company's games.
Gunn considered applying for the role on a longer-term basis; he had previously applied without success to be Norwich manager in 1998.
Urged by his parents, he applied to medical school, without success.
But when M. Hubert told the police he had discovered his erring spouse at a friend's house in flagrante delicto one morning, he determined to have it applied without mercy.
He began studying at Harvard, having applied without telling his management or his family.
But Obama wobbled even more when he says that the affirmative action measures should not be applied without taking into individual needs, and they should be applied to poor whites.
Years from now, that could still be the case as he applies for jobs, without basic qualifications.
Fidelity, devotion, discretion, a sense of tacit virtue, unyielding principle, and conspicuous reserve — Ben is the apotheosis of conventional liberal morality, a firm grid of values that he applies to himself without daring to impose on others.
