There are a few more or less objective criteria (College Board test scores, performance in advanced placement courses), but much of the decision making comes down to whether a particular reader likes the tone of a student's personal essay or gets excited -- or disturbed -- by a phrase in a letter of recommendation.
So he asked Cynthia Hedstrom, the director of Danspace Project back then, if he might organize a festival of artists like himself, black choreographers who were working, as he phrased it in a letter, "outside of the mainstream of traditional modern dance".
The page appears to be part of a letter and includes phrases known to be used by the master calligrapher.
The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" is from a letter dated January 2, 1776, written by Stephen Moylan, Esq., George Washington's aide-de-camp and Muster-Master General of the Continental Army.
Who knew there were so many familiar phrases that had a letter or letters within them that made the same sound as the last word in the phrase?
However, certain phrases of the letters (including verses in the style of Ronsard) and certain characteristics of style would be compatible with known writings of Mary.
To YES, seeking the gold-plated lining, a phrase in an April 11 letter to one of its executives from one of Cablevision's suggested that the cable operator would somehow agree to YES's stated demand to be paid monthly fees of $2 a subscriber.
For example, a group that helps orphanages recently sought assistance in updating the phrasing of its thank-you letters to donors.
"Gifted Hands" begins with a letter from Carson's mother, who reprises one of her favorite phrases: "If you don't succeed, you have only yourself to blame".
In a letter from 1986 I found the phrase "every love story is a ghost story".
