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A member of the pantheon of African American southern writers, Earnest Gaines hails from a region with such a ______________ artistic tradition that one would assume that his subject matter would be inherited as his birthright.
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Even though the original settlement may not hold up, it at least proves that a deadlock can be broken and that a hitherto __________ party is ready to bargain.
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What Dr. Walther has shown is that many of the standard statistical techniques that are supposed to insure against _________ correlations are inadequate in this case.
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Although the virtues of supplementing wild fish populations with fish from hatcheries are often ______________, scientific studies have indicated that fish stocking can harm the wild, native species of the water body.
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A big surprise, from a writer of Wilson`s sardonic bent, is that his new book should be so persistently ______________.
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Behavioral economists point to _____________ as one reason that people do not always make choices that promote their own welfare; sometimes people simply fail to take steps that they know to be in their own best interest.
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Scientists could not build on each other's work if they could not trust the published work of their colleagues; thus progress in science depends on the ____________ of practicing scientists.
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Nowhere is the gulf between humans and chimpanzees (i)____________ than in their mental abilities: whereas children gradually acquire the ability to infer the mental states of others, an acquisition that underlies language and culture, evidence for this ability in chimps is (ii)____________.
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Most tree-dwelling lizards drop to the ground when threatened. But Sphenomorpus sabanus uses (i)____________, avoiding predation by hanging upside down and clinging to a branch with its hind claws so as to resemble a twig. Researchers suggest that the advantages of S. sabanus`s strategy is its (ii)____________. When predatory birds expect their prey to fall to the ground, the argument runs, (iii)____________ a lizard still hanging from a branch.
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According to one view, works of literary fiction should faithfully reflect social reality, and adherents to this view tend to assume that social reality has only one face: a damaged and dysfunctional one. This view has had less impact on the musical arts, however. Composers are free to write music that is (i)____________ without being condemned for their (ii)____________. Yet writers, by contrast, are expected to (iii)____________ if they wish to be taken seriously.
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Without a proper sense of its own legitimacy in Japanese society, the Liberal Democratic Party retreats to a sort of ____________ politics that tries desperately not to offend anyone.
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While the rate at which absolute global sea level is rising may seem ___________, it has been far from an incidental factor in human history.
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In her study of the composer, Fiona Richards fearlessly digs into biographical details, avoiding the ____________ found in the work of other, more circumspect biographers.
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Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not ____________ interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
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The distribution of large carnivores often depends on management efforts rather than on human population density as such; indeed biological variables, such as habitat loss, are generally _____________ carnivore prevalence than human density is.
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The watchword in astronomy is ___________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one`s mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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Lohr`s (i)____________ the trappings of literary celebrity creates a Romantic aura for him: by distancing himself from all public discourse about himself or his work, Lohr becomes an even greater, albeit more (ii)____________, celebrity than most authors manage in all their interviews and memoirs.
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Recent academic work suggests that people in difficult circumstances who believe those circumstances to be irreversible are happier than are people who think their condition may be (i)____________. In such cases, ironically, hope may not be (ii)____________ of misery.
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Research indicates that many people hold (i)____________ views about government, believing that elected officials should be able to overcome differences and get things done while also regarding a willingness to compromise as a sign of (ii)____________.
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Although the impression that quantum mechanics is limited to the microworld (i)____________ the public understanding of science, it is (ii)____________. Quantum effects may be harder to see in the macroworld, but experiments have now confirmed that these effects are (iii)____________ than anyone ever suspected.
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