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Leo Tolstoy wrote many works of nonfiction and professed (i)_____ these explorations of ethics and religion compared with his novels and short stories. The fiction writer in him, however, was hard to (ii)_____. Handi Murdd is a short novel with the breadth and power of an epic, with vivid characterization and intense storytelling that sweep the reader away. While the reader senses the moral concerns of the tale's creator, the novel is a far cry from the (iii)_____ of Tolstoy's nonfiction.
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Changes made to ecosystems in order to achieve a goal, such as food production or flood control, often _____ significant unforeseen trade-offs between other important products and services the ecosystems provide.
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One big challenge with placebo responses is that they are ____________: people given the same inert pill or potion may show wildly different reactions, and the effects can vary widely according to each person`s illness.
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The Chicago journal known as Poetry has been the launching pad for many poets since its
_____ in 1913; among them, T. S. Eliot, Gwendolyn Brooks, and John Ashbery.
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Although most land snails are _____________, the giant African snail is a notable exception; it can be 15 inches long and weigh 2 pounds.
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Knowing how (i)_____ she was at work, her colleagues were surprised at her (ii)_____
throughout the dinner.
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Twenty years ago, when the book was first published, most reviewers dismissed the author`s predictions as (i)_____. Sometimes people (ii)_____ their errors: those same reviewers today, comparing the predictions with actual events, acknowledge how (iii)_____ the author was.
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As the biography makes plain, the scientist led _____ sort of life, rarely remaining in one place for long.
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There is a revelation on almost every page of this book, and the author`s prose is _____ in the best possible way: blunt, sweet, off-kilter, and often quite funny.
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The potential reduction in water lost from the proposed reservoir from evaporation is _____
inconsequential: even the minimum projected reduction would save enough water to furnish the needs of a Denver-sized municipality.
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As the release of the annual report drew near, it was clear that more than a few employees suspected the company was on the verge of bankruptcy; the belief was _____ throughout the organization.
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The claim that large budget deficits significantly depress private investment and thereby hurt
future wages and living standards is (i)_____; in reality, the (ii)_____ effects of budget deficits are tiny.
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The small errors of fact in the work are not sufficient to allow one to (i)_____ Johnson`s main thesis, but their cumulative effect is to make the reader (ii)_____ of the quality of his research.
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While the Prime Minister`s long-standing reputation for (i)____ practical power may (ii)_____ his recently stated willingness to devolve real power to regional assemblies and local governments, it certainly does not (iii)_____ his doing it.
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Although a dedicated reader of the book can _____ a brief of chronology of Chapelle`s life, the book is nevertheless not a real biography of Chapelle.
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In their quest for kinder cutting, physicians increasingly rely on endoscopic surgery, replacing large scalpels and clamps with cameras and _____ tools that snake into the body through tiny holes.
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The restaurant often experience a decline in business after holiday seasons, for potential customers attempt to be more _____ to balance out their former celebratory indulgences.
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Just as different human groups have different kinds of musical traditions, different groups of whales have different dialects evident in their songs, and it is possible for one group to influence the (i)_____ of another. It has been documented more than once that a group of whales will (ii)_____ its own tunes and adopt the new songs of an unfamiliar group.
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Any number of mysteries to which individual scholars of Athenian history have devoted whole careers are addressed by Ober, and mostly successfully. This will cause some (i)_____ among scholars who have worked for years on a particular problem only to see another scholar suddenly (ii)_____ it.
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Wolosky claims that Ella Wheeler Wilcox joined other women poets such as Julia Ward Howe, Frances Harper, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in critiquing materialism and possessive individualism. Wolosky`s description (i)_____ the poetry of Gilman, Howe, and Harper, but it is not entirely (ii)_____ in the case of Wilcox, who hardly (iii)_____ the materialism of her time. Rather, Wilcox seems to have embraced the amassing of private property.
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