But to have any chance at all, she would need a sudden startling string of prodigious victories against a candidate who is better-financed and riding a tremendous wave of momentum.
The biggest surprise of the admissions season and the breathless yearlong build-up that preceded it has been my sudden ability to string words into coherent sentences.
It sometimes feels like I woke up one day and the comments sections of my favorite blogs were, all of a sudden, crammed with strings of GIFs, while I searched in vain for the words written in English I could understand.
In its first movement, quiet communications among solo strings survived sudden single events: percussion impulses or huge chords that had a somewhat Messiaen-like shine and seductiveness but within a far more fluid musical world.
To demonstrate this way of passing, a uniformly moving constant load along an infinite elastically supported string with a sudden change in density is studied.
At the very moment when John is in agony on the floor, as "the Holy Ghost was speaking", he feels "a tightening in his loin strings" and "a sudden yearning tenderness for Elisha... desire, sharp and awful".
It feels very much of its time, with its uncompromising adherence to the 64 hexagrams of I-Ching, the Chinese book of changes, determining the direction of the piece and its use of sudden, percussive attacks on the strings or the body of the instrument.
The Arabs proceeded to surround the hill, but the Byzantines were saved by a sudden rain, which loosened the strings of the Turkish bows, rendering them useless.
Of an early encounter with Mr. Parker's playing, Mr. Campbell recalled: "I had my eyes closed and, all of a sudden, I thought there was a string quartet playing.
