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The (i)_____________of a rain forest is (ii)_____________. The extinction of a pollinator or seed disperse may cause the death of a plant species and with it many other species that depend on it.
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The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period detail, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is (iii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.
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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with_____________wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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In studying contemporary writing about love, critic Susan Ostrov Weisser notes a striking_____________: love is often treated skepticallyin “serious" literature, while mass-produced romance novels offer up dreamy idealization.
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Natasha Kholgade Banerjee notes that photo-editing applications have allowed everyday users to (i)_____________ the (ii)_____________ of a camera by providing the means to change image colors, move pixels around, and combine natural photographs with artificial elements.
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When Jourdain(i)_____________ that the "phonograph has been as disastrous to the development of the musical imagination as television has been to the literary imagination," he appears grumpy rather than reflective. (ii)_____________ the fact that there are arguably as many fine authors and poets now as ever, television notwithstanding, there is not a shred of evidence that musical recordings have had any(iii)_____________ effect on music in any way.
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People do not view numbers_____________: one's response to the number 9, for example, is conditioned by a mixture of both cultural and psychological factors.
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Even though some governments are now expressing alarm over their nations'_____________ birth rates, the planetary threat of human overpopulation has not ceased to concern many scientists and environmentalists.
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Egler's prediction in 1947 that the introduction of mangrove trees to the Hawaiian lslands would cause sweeping ecological change was_____________: extensive mangrove forests have come to displace many preexisting plant communities.
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Whereas classic compromises express an underlying and continuing (i)_____________of values, so that the disagreements among the parties are embodied in the compromise itself, consensual compromises are based on an underiying (ii)_____________ of values.
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Climate science journals are often too hermetic for even the most (i)_____________ layperson. The gravity of the issues discussed requires that we (ii)_____________ such (iii)_____________: we need publications that engage the broader public in discussions of how we interact with the natural world.
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Given how readily newspapers and various collectibles can accumulate, it's not much of a stretch to imagine being victims of our possessions, _____________ things we' re unable to sort out and discard.
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History is about recognizing continuities and therefore the historian must (i)_____________ stories that rope together the disparate worlds of past and present. But it is also true that honest history arises from a sense of (ii)_____________. lt is the experience of discontinuity that alerts us to the(iii)_____________ of the past and sets us looking for narratives to capture that unfamiliar entity.
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For decades, debates about the potential benefits of seafloor mining in ocean deeps were _____________, because mining at depths greater than 1,000 meters was considered technologically impossible.
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Hedonic hunger, or the urge to eat for pleasure, applies even when we are full. When food is (i)_____________, hedonic hunger comes in handy, so we can stock up on calories for the hard times ahead. But in a world of(ii)_____________, the same impulse makes us gain weight.
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The literary critic' s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author's chance to(i)_____________ positions previously (ii)_____________somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)_____________, if in fact they do.
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Land near Bangladesh's coastal rivers is _____________: temporary islands, or chars, form in the main rivers as sediments are deposited and then disappear during floods.
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In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably _____________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.
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Until the l960s, predictions ofthe effect of winds on the ocean waves were_____________, and forecasts of wave heights during stoms were consequently unreliable.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area—and imminent rationing and steep water price increases—is _____________the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer commnities nearby conserve by necessity.
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