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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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The passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
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Mr. Billington, at times, can be a (i)_____. For instance, he deplores the Royal Shakespeare Company`s eight-and-a-half hour version of Nicholas Nickelby, which many found (ii)_____.
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Motivation is the hardest of all managerial tasks, and it is _____ to expect a single memo, no matter how well crafted, to have much effect on the staff's attitude.
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Although it is not uncommon for journalists to portray political inexperience on the part of public officials as an (i)_____, it was nevertheless surprising when members of the press treated the new senator`s obvious (ii)_____ as an extraordinary virtue.
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The contemporary trend whereby fashion designers flout mainstream tradition is unique only in its (i)_____; earlier fashion designers experience the same (ii)_____ impulse, albeit in a less extreme form.
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The science community's perennial lament over inadequate budgets has come to seem increasing _____, because government support for science and engineering has never been greater.
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While the writer was best known for her much-ballyhooed _____, her impact reached far beyond memorable quips.
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One baffling aspect of the novel is its capacity to generate emotional power from a plot that lacks the most elementary _____: readers must accept not an occasional coincidence, but a continuous stream of them.
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Partly because of Lee's skill at synthesizing (i)_____ trends drawn from many fields of study, her theories appeared to present, with uncanny aptness, ideas already (ii)_____ in the minds of her contemporaries.
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The employee had a reputation for fractiousness, but his coworkers found him to be, on the contrary, quite _____.
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