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Delilo' 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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In the late nineteenth century, many English lace-making towns and villages sold postcards that showed lace makers at work. The postcard images, designed to promote lace by imbuing the product with romantic nostalgia, were frequently (i)
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The failure of scholarly efforts to adequately characterize the fairy tale as a genre is (i)_____________ because the genre is so(ii)_____________: despite its currency and apparent simplicity, the term "fairy tale”(iii)_____________.
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At one time television was_____________: an episode aired and, if you missed it, you might, at best, have one more chance to see it during a summer rerun.
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Many in the software industry cling to an obstinate belief that the industry can weather any economic storm, but their_____________has been visibly shaken by a looming recession and aggressive consolidation in the high-tech industry.
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Interest in the recovery of lost works by Brazilian women writers is growing as scholars increasingly recognize writing by Brazilian women as inherently worth study, not as_____________ writing by Brazilian men.
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Historically, it has been unusual for scientific terms, once coined, to enter common usage with much_____________: "scientist" and "dinosaur"(coined in 1833 and 1842,respectively), for instance, were rarely used before the late nineteenth century.
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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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Like the Homeric bards, early blues musicians added or removed song parts depending on whether those elements appealed to their (i)_____________. Since such improvisatory revision directly privileged audience reaction over plot coherence in governing song (ii)_____________, the sense of narrative in the lyrics of much early blues music can seem confusing.
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It is surprising that such a handsomely produced volume does not reflect more (i)_____________ proofreading: typographical errors are copious enough to be (ii)____________. Somewhat more substantially, the book would have been greatly enhanced by the inclusion of more maps or illustrations, though against that it must be conceded that were the work as (iii)_____________ illustrated as desired, it would have been prohibitively expensive.
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