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We have been so persuaded that (i) _____________ and disgraceful conduct go together that we find it difficult to believe that an affable man such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can be (ii) _____________ of both goodness and superior ability. Indeed, appalling conduct is sometimes itself (iii) _____________ the greatest talent.
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The chancellor once openly admired the relatively laissez-faire economic recipes of Britain and the United States but now defends the German way, in which she sees the free market's sometimes destructive vicissitudes being _____________ by consensus-building politics and a generous welfare state.
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Partisans of literary realism sometimes think that because fantastical narratives do not abide by the laws of reality, they _____________ all rules, though, in fact, the logic of fairy tales is often relentlessly rigorous.
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It can be a daunting task to plunge into the disparate and extensive data sets on the carnivores and _____________ meaningful patterns from their extraordinary morphological, behavioral, and ecological diversity.
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Oral traditions are (i) _____________ nearly everywhere, and in nonliterate societies they do not (ii) _____________ at their first exposure to the written word. Despite Goody's contention that a kind of literacy line cuts through history, dividing oral from print cultures, it seems that traditional tale-telling can (iii) _____________ long after a print culture is established.
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Judge Jones brought some welcome levity to the often tense, though sometimes_____________, proceedings.
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The concept of replicability begins with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth is not _____________: researchers who make daims must allow others to test those claims.
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Gravity is the _____________ of the four fundamental forces existing in nature, the others being the electromagnetic force, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, yet over large distances it is gravity that dominates.
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Epitomizing the (i) _____________ of many of life's pleasures, the exquisite Japanese sweets known as jornamagashi cannot be (ii) _____________, but rather, doomed by their hizh moisture content, must be eaten at once.
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In her book, Schmidt (i) _____________ confidence in her opinions. She is excessively (ii) _____________ authorities, even when gently rejecting their views. lt is always a pleasure to encounter the lucid, astute prose of academics from the past, but this book is (iii) _____________ a surplus of pedestrian quotations from the less notable.
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Although the evidence to date is that the regime is _____________ freedom, this does not imply that any other regime would be more compatible with freedom: on the contrary, others are almost certain to be less so.
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Psychologists and neuroscientists have become fascinated by our (i)_____________ storytelling, wondering why our brains seem to be wired to (ii) _____________ stonies.
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Originality of artistic subject matter was never (i) _____________ in ancient Egypt-in fact, it was generally (ii) _____________; as a result, the artist's ambition was concentrated solely on thoroughness and precision of execution.
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As the global climate warms, some deserts, expanding to higher latitudes, are beginning to _____________ fertile reglons.
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The wealth of insightful and challenging articles found in the journal is astounding in a world where mainstream publications increasingly focus on the most _____________ of topics.
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Surprisingly, although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, their treatment of some fundamentally important concepts is_____________.
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In the documentary, the themes of sublime nature and multiculturalism are meshed together in a manner that _____________ a challenging treatment: the juxtaposition of these issues leaves several questions unaddressed.
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Because a glacier's front evolves as a function of its size and the local topography (such as the slope and orientation to the Sun), two similar neighboring glaciers can undergo _____________ fuctuations in length.
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Compared to the lmpressionists' rendition of women's garments in their paintings, the dresses on display for the exhibition lmpressionism, Fashion, and Modemity provide visitors with a (i) _____________ of nineteenth-century fashion. This is in part because the dresses in the display cases are (ii) _____________ museum pieces in the most static sense of the term, Depicted on canvas, on the other hand, the same dresses are (iii) ____________and nearly inseparable from the movement of the women wearing them.
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Robert McCance and Elsie Widdowson's The Chemica! Composition of Foods, published in 1940, contained an extraordinary fifteen thousand entries, making it the first collection of nutritional information for cooked and raw foods that could be considered_____________.
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