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The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered _____ .
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The company suffers from an almost total lack of _____: even the most innocuous communications between departments lend to devolve into acrimony.
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It is a paradox of the Victorians that they were both _____ and, through their empire, cosmopolitan.
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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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Typefaces, in one sense, are just like styles of shoes: they _____ because different people have different tastes and identities and because both creators and users value novelty for its own sake.
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Reviews written by music critic and composer Stephenson were hardly (i)_____ : musicians who performed his music could count on sympathetic coverage, while those who ignored him were held to (ii)_____ standards.
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The recent exhibition on Dadaism is nothing if not _____, for the visual arts are currently awash in Dadaist gestures and gambits of one variety or another.
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I did not begin work on my biography of Mary Somerville as Somerville's (i)__________. When I first began studying her, I saw Somerville and the esteem in which her contemporaries held her as (ii)____________. Over time, however, I have come to understand what she accomplished and why it was justly valued.
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If it is wrong to justify human selfishness on the basis of the alleged selfishness of nature, then it is equally mistaken to espouse ____________ merely because some animals happily assist each other.
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Baron's book implores scientists to present their work in ways that are accessible to the general public in order to save the world at large from scientific illiteracy, ______________ that is echoed in other recent publications.
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Robin's words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful ______________ extremes.
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The extant evidence of Pluto's collisions with other cosmic objects over time is (i)____________. When Pluto is closest to the Sun, frozen surface material evaporates into a temporary atmosphere and eventually into space. This process (ii)____________ older impact craters, so Pluto's surface provides a record of (iii)____________ collisions.
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The television network seems to regard its longest-running comedy show as _____________, keeping it in the schedule even as the humor it churns out is notoriously hit-or-miss.
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The _____________ of criteria for determining what is meant by "balance" and whether it is beneficial makes it difficult to evaluate claims that probiotics promote a healthy balance of microorganisms in the body.
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The tools of science are so specialized that we accept them as a kind of _____________ machinery for producing knowledge: we know that they work, but cannot explain why.
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The enthusiasm for dancing in New Zealand during the 1920s and 1930s to some extent (i) _____________ in both the United States and Britain, where new dance halls (ii) ___________ in response to customer demand, although the rampant commercialization associated with larger populations in the United States was not so apparent in New Zealand.
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Developments in neuroscience and animal behavior have led researchers to question the view that unmitigated competition is ______________ animal life: in primatology, the countermovement started with research into how friendships and conflict resolution favor survival.
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Whether the film is ____________ adaptation of the legend is debatable: the author of the screenplay claims that it was based on the original tale, but admits taking some interpretive license with the story.
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Influenza is ____________ virus: it is full of surprises and newness, prone to mutation and reassortment.
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Dialogue exchanges indicating deep-seated rivalries among the characters abound in the novel, but they are almost always associated with_______events--everyday commercial transactions, for instance, or the preparation of an evening meal.
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