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Fenton`s motives were clearly (i)_____ , yet Fenton tried, in the most ingratiating way, to (ii)_____ his innocence.
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Mulcahy, in averring that most literary criticism has become so filled with abstruse jargon as to be practically indecipherable to anyone save its practitioners, is himself (i)_____: his main point will be discernible only to the very community he seeks to (ii)_____.
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Whereas the incumbent`s opponents feverishly worked around the clock, digging up seemingly irrelevant information only to contort a(n) (i)_____ incident so that it appeared unequivocally damning, the incumbent himself resorted to no such (ii)_____ and preferred instead to calumniate his opponents during highly publicized debates.
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Giacomo`s concerti, much like the composer himself, were a (i)_____ affair. Fits of passion would, without warning, give way to sudden idylls, as though the composer had been trying to (ii)_____ his inner conflicts. Only in his later works, which are far more abstract, does he eschew trying to capture his inner states.
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For an obscure poet to have penned such a refined, poignant sonnet is not at all (i)_____. The sonnet, after all, has been a favored form for hundreds of years amongst the amateur and lionized alike. I would be (ii)_____, on the other hand, had not one, out of the sheer number produced during this time, surpassed Shakespeare on a bad day.
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For all his (i)_____, Honore de Balzac?betrayed?a remarkable (ii)_____ to the plight of 19th century women, populating his novels with characters sympathetic to women`s rights.
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Claire`s moods shifted drastically and unexpectedly – one moment she was (i)_____, chatting lively, the next she was (ii)_____, looking forlornly out of the window.
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The term "robber barons", which refers to those powerful business moguls at the turn of the 19th Century, is hardly a(n) (i)_____, ?despite some of these robber barons outward gestures of philanthropy. Infamous for their insatiable (ii)_____, the robber barons were finally held in check by the ascendancy of a more powerful centralized government.
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To critics the author`s latest work was (i)_____ ; with so few people purchasing the book, this reception proved to be (ii)_____.
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Some minor governmental bungling in the environmental sector can (i)_____ what many watchdog organizations are declaiming as gross negligence: indeed entire swathes of once fertile land now gone barren (ii)_____ flaws in state policy.
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While the aviators had hoped for no (i)_____ meteorological events, the weather became increasingly (ii)_____ , with wind tossing their plane as they crossed the Pacific.
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In claiming that there are overarching commonalities among every culture, Jungenfreud perhaps (i)_____ his case: while there are most likely universal belief systems and recurrent myths spanning both time and civilizations, depending on the level of (ii)_____ of a scholar`s criteria, surely not all societies display the exact same characteristics--it is one thing to say that every people has an elaborate view of the afterlife (as Jungenfreud does); it is another to show uncanny parallels between the particulars of this afterlife (as Jungenfreud fails to do).
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Unless the current practice of deforestation is (i)_____ by no less than a global committee, the world`s biodiversity will continue to (ii)_____, robbing posterity of potential pharmacological breakthroughs.
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Hemingway`s imagination was nowhere near as (i)_____ as that of James Joyce – yet the latter published (ii)_____ works.
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For someone so unjustifiably (i)_____ ?success, the recently installed CEO perhaps surprised very few when his series of impractical business solutions did not ?(ii)_____ the floundering firm.
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By the beginning of the 20th Century, piano pedagogy had advanced fingering technique to such a degree that even students with a (i)_____ were able, with targeted practice, to execute thorny passages, while exuding the (ii)_____ of a polished salon pianist.
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What is the greatest novel of all-time? Many top-100 lists have been proffered, purporting to resolve this very issue. Yet the (i)_____ those compiling these rankings suggests that any definitive list is not (ii)_____.
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In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov`s autobiography, the author seems as (i)_____ an ornate prose style as with communicating, often in excruciating detail, the (ii)_____ of a singular life, describing his family`s fall from aristocracy following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Far less (i)_____ than her predecessor, the new superintendent remained (ii)_____, even on issues in which some form of compromise was expected.
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There is a rising consensus amongst immunologists that the observed rise in allergies in the general population can be attributed to (i)_____ exposure to everyday germs. Known as the hygiene hypothesis, this counterintuitive idea could have far reaching implications-for one, we may now have to be more (ii)_____ those paternal prescriptions to scrub our children`s hands at every opportunity.
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