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While traditional Chinese historiography ostensibly described events in a neutral manner, early historians did not always_____________ tendentiousness, sometimes offering moral judgments about the historical figures they discussed.
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At present, education is the more cherished as it is the more_____________; learning how to do something, rather than learning how to be someone, particularly someone human, is in vogue.
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One perverse twist that has(i) _____________the difficulty of understanding the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees is that the bees do not just die-they fly off in every direction from the hive, then die alone and dispersed. That makes large numbers of bee autopsies (ii)_____________.
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There is something seductive about(i)_____________judgments in the arts.When a critic peremptorily announces that Titian' s canvases are the greatest ever painted or that Mondrian and Malevich are the only truly radical artists of the twentieth century, we enjoy seeing all the confusions of taste swept aside, even though we may(ii)_____________ reservations about the (iii)_____________nature of these opinions.
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Recently there has been a push for machines to identify us not by passwords but by things like tokens and key cards, or by scanning our eyes, voices, or fingerprints, and yet the use of passwords continues to_____________.
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Whatever truth the terse, witty, instructive saying known as an apothegm points toward is by definition always obscured, and anyone who regards its meaning as (i)_____________not only misreads it but also mistakes its very nature, An apothegm's inscrutability allows a tantalizing glimpse of wisdom that lies beyond our ability to (ii)_____________
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Leaders within the Native American culture known as Fort Ancient differed from those of the neighboring Mississippian groups, whose authority was often_____________: indeed,one expert has described the Fort Ancient society as intensely egalitarian.
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The message the author conveys is that the bluefin tuna fishery worldwide is being mismanaged and that despite a few_____________signs, such as the partial recovery of stocks in some areas, the immediate future looks bleak.
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Those who knew the senator well were convinced that in spite of his (i)_____________ in larger political matters,there was no(ii)_____________in his expressions of feeling for his constituents.
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Until recentily superhero comics were seen as irredeemably(i)_____________; they were widely disparaged for being so(ii)_____________in conception and execution, and anyone who was a fan was given plenty of reasons to be (iii)_____________.
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Organic farming is often thought of as being (i)_____________by its opposition to conventional industrialized agriculture. In truth, however, it is (ii)_____________a unifying rationale for organic agriculture, and many contemporary understandings of organic agriculture are not even (iii)_____________
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The chairman, while saying he will seek to forge a consensus out of a variety of proposals acknowledged that it might not be easy to reconcile the push for a radical overhaul with the stance of those who want_____________change.
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Scientists are a generally _____________lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the twentieth*century mathematical genius Amalie Noether.
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Since methane doesn' t last long in the atmosphere, its detection on Mars would indicate_____________source-perhaps a living organism, or an active geological process-and shed valuabie light on whether the planet is habitable.
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The administration has been ruthless in its efforts to foist its policies on the legislature,_____________lawmakers who raise legitimate concerns about those policies.
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Prior to the advent of the scientific method, many were skeptical of experimentation as a means for seeking knowledge. it was widely thought that (i)_____________ could only produce (ii)_____________findings.
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Schmidt' s widely praised book Lives ofthe Poets (1998) was a 900-page meditation on English poetry in which his forceful, witty, sometimes partisan sketches revealed a mind deeply in love with literature. in his recent The First Poets, however, Schmidt seems less (i)_____________his opinions. He is excessively(ii)______________authorities, even when gently rejecting their views, Whenever he is front and center, Schmidt himself is (iii)_____________guide, but this book is clogged with too many pedestrian quotations from academics past and present.
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Despite the_____________behaviors they can exhibit, invertebrates are sometimes regarded by humans as a mindless and unfeeling band of alien critters.
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Trilobites, with their famously distinctive lobed body plans and curious appurtenances, are _____________fossils, the perfect symbols of an archaic world.
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Most travel narratives are, at however unacknowledged a level, about seeking some destination or searching for the meaning of life; they betray a sense of (i)_____________even when affecting to(ii)_____________it. Prokosch, however, seems more than happy to take every moment just as it is； a striking feature of his narrator's travels is that for all the near-constant danger and closeness to incarceration, there is never a very great sense of (iii)_____________
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