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The painter Fu Baoshi lived and worked through a tumultuous period in Chinese history, _________ by exceptional talent and a steely dedication to his art.
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Many Latin American writers and critics have come to bristle at the very mention of the type of fiction termed "magic realism", but to the common reader the appeal of such fiction is ____________.
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In the 1980s the press release announcing the discovery of a new fundamental particle turned a once _____________ hypothesis of interest to no more than a few hundred physicists into an undisputed fact of global significance.
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The politician was famously restrained, with a tendency to focus his fury inward: while he would defend himself publicly against detractors` attacks, he would never stoop to ________.
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She may have been (i) ________ when she was finance minister, fighting deficits, but now as prime minister she is marked by her (ii) _____________.
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The fantastic conceit of the film's plot is that global warming (i) __________ global freezing. After a chunk of Antarctic ice the size of Rhode Island suddenly melts, most of what follows-an instant ice age, for example-is impossible as science but not as metaphor. The data from the Greenland ice sheet show that, over the past hundred thousand years, temperatures have often (ii) ___________ - so often that it is our own relatively static experience of climate that should now be seen as (iii) ___________.
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Despite its title and the recipes it provides, the main purpose of The Insect Cookbook is not (i) ________. Instead, the book seeks to (ii) _____________of entomophagy. i.e., the consumption of insects as food: it is composed of interviews with chiefs, farmers, politicians, and United Nations figures, all of whom attempt to (iii) ________ the custom of eating insects.
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Ultimately, according to Zuger, all medical advice is _________ : it is educated guesswork, perhaps, but guesswork all the same.
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One early sign of this new thirst for _________ is the fact that eight members of the committee on professional conduct have already recused themselves in the name of unbiased justice.
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In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite _____________.
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Whereas the original editor had sacrificed clarity for brevity and her successor had been too _____________, the new editor took an intermediate approach, explicit as to the purport of each document and not too ambitious in detail.
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Medieval cathedrals still stand as marvels of architecture, but as far as modern science is concerned, medieval physics and chemistry are simply irrelevant, at best a dead end, at worst the very _________ of what science is supposed to be.
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The company`s steering committee, reluctant to be held to any specific commitments, released a strategic plan that was deliberately ___________.
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With respect to environmental issues, most legal scholarship tends to envision politics as the pursuit of already fixed interests, a view that (i)________ the ability of political communities to (ii)________ their values and their interests through the process of democratic deliberation.
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Except for a few passages in the biography in which the subject`s flaws are (i)________, the author`s treatment of her subjects is (ii)________.
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Not only is the field of behavioral genetics strewn with (i)________ findings, but even among those findings that have managed to survive, many have turned out to be (ii)________ a very restricted class of cases.
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The intense interest in probing the Martian soil for water is no mere (i)________ preoccupation. Beyond solving the mystery of where Mars`s surface water went, scientists are simply being (ii)________. Human exploration or even settlement of Mars is being considered as a real possibility, and it certainly will not be cost-effective to (iii)________ water.
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Although many aspects of the hippie movement of the 1960s seemed like superficial posturing, many hippies were not without a great deal of ___________.
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Duke Ellington managed his career with extreme deliberateness: nothing was _________, and even apparent compromises or trade-offs were actually artful accommodations leading to eventual triumphs.
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Most of the drugs used to treat celiac disease that are now in development would not eliminate the need for a gluten-free diet but would help __________ symptoms when some gluten is unintentionally ingested.
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