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When philosophers like Plato, Hume, and Schopenhauer write with clarity about problems of the utmost difficulty, such_____________ does not make the problems appear simple or easy to solve: on the contrary, difficulty is exposed as essential to the understanding.
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While most Centaurs (minor planets) are thought to be_____________, astronomers have observed patterns of brightening from the Centaur Chiron, as well as activity similar to that of a streaking comet.
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The author engages the subject firom diverse perspectives, supports his argument well with many examples, and manages to avoid antagonizing others in dealing with a very_____________subject.
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In general, the more that Victorian society felt it had lost contact with the rural, the more the rural became an object of _____________ for metropolitan commentators, who represented it as a moral antidote to urban life.
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The author's deseription of the _____________contamination of ocean water with plastic materials -and the resulting threat to marine life-constitutes a valuable lesson in the urgency of managing trash more responsibly than we currently do.
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The great jazz trumpeter John Birks Gillespie, who was saddled with the nickname "Dizzy" because of his onstage_____________, was always considered a comparatively stable and reliable individual despite the nickname.
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Hotels in major urban markets seem to offer the biggest potential_____________seasoned investors looking to make an investment in the lodging sector, those hotels took the hardest hit during the recession, and analysts expect them to bounce back just as steeply.
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DeLillo's writing seems strangely attenuated in the pages, stripped of its usual pop and fizz, its tactile sense of detail, and as a result the novel has_____________feel.
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Considering that experiental treatments that are (i)_____________one mouse population are, nonetheless. ineffeetual with other miee, we might reasonably conelude that many rodent studies are not (ii)_____________
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Books about humor are rarely funny. Their goal, afer all. is to (i)_____________the workings of that which we find comic, not to(ii)_____________ laughter, and understanding why jokes are funny is not in itself (iii)_____________.
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One can expect that future generations will steadily become less_____________as new technologies enable the substitution of online activities for social, work- and shopping-related travel.
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Discussions of impending water shortages are often couched in apocalyptic rhetoric, yet if the language is somewhat_____________, the basic message is sound: water is indeed scarce and growing scarcer.
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The (i)_____________scientists-the notion that they are elitists scornful of the masses is in no sense(ii)_____________the eighteenth century, since in our own time one does not have to look far to find such disdainful attitudes.
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Train stations are visually evocative, full of shadows and movement and space: it is hardly(i)_____________ that they are so (ii)_____________filmmakers. But the range of films that exploit stations, trains, and the prospect or memory of rail travel is quite (iii)_____________. No other form of travel has lent itself to international cinema in quite this way.
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The artist' s reputation remains somewhat marginal, a peripheral but persistent position that is perhaps just what she desires, since her art seeks a cult status that might be_____________by her becoming too familiar.
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The indigenous uprising in Bolivia in 2008 was not_____________: in 1781 indigenous people took over the area near present-day La Paz in what constituted the biggest challenge to the Spanish who then controlled Bolivia.
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The danger of valuing animals in proportion to their apparent possession of human characteristics is the subject of Budiansky's new book, an extended critique of_____________ in animal behavior research.
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The pronghorn antelope in northem Mexico may be viewed as (i)_____________species, as most of the North American prairie, its chief historical habitat has (ii)_____________.
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Though the poet James Merrill was showered with prizes during his lifetime, his work has always elicited a certain amount of (¡)_____________. Everyone seems to agree that Merrill' s verse is elegant, but that adjective sometimes crries a faint (ii)_____________, implying an absence of depth or intensity. The formal facility and surface dazzle that some find so awesome represent for others (iii)_____________.
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The author's point is not that people should be _____________science; he is careful to point out that what science is discovering about humans, for example, is certainly important and worthy of careful consideration.
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