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Calasso is not an academic, but the head of a distinguished publishing house in Milan. So being (i) _____________literary intellectual, he feels no obligation to adhere to the rules of the academy: he does not (ii)_____________ the academic buzzwords and does not (iii) _____________ the prestige networks of a persistently self-regarding, insular, and entrenched academic world.
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A key characteristic in the author's presentation of his character's dreary life is _____________: paragraphs are short, sentences are laconic, patterns of repetition and
circularity are evoked by means of symbolic shorthand.
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Given how readily newspapers and various collectibles can accumulate, it's not much of a stretch to imagine being victims of our possessions, _____________ things we' re unable to sort out and discard.
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History is about recognizing continuities and therefore the historian must (i)_____________ stories that rope together the disparate worlds of past and present. But it is also true that honest history arises from a sense of (ii)_____________. lt is the experience of discontinuity that alerts us to the(iii)_____________ of the past and sets us looking for narratives to capture that unfamiliar entity.
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For decades, debates about the potential benefits of seafloor mining in ocean deeps were _____________, because mining at depths greater than 1,000 meters was considered technologically impossible.
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Hedonic hunger, or the urge to eat for pleasure, applies even when we are full. When food is (i)_____________, hedonic hunger comes in handy, so we can stock up on calories for the hard times ahead. But in a world of(ii)_____________, the same impulse makes us gain weight.
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The literary critic' s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author's chance to(i)_____________ positions previously (ii)_____________somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)_____________, if in fact they do.
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Land near Bangladesh's coastal rivers is _____________: temporary islands, or chars, form in the main rivers as sediments are deposited and then disappear during floods.
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In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably _____________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.
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Until the l960s, predictions ofthe effect of winds on the ocean waves were_____________, and forecasts of wave heights during stoms were consequently unreliable.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area—and imminent rationing and steep water price increases—is _____________the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer commnities nearby conserve by necessity.
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The play is undeniably cerebral - its plot turns on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.but critics have found this_____________ exhilarating, and the play does not wear its ideas too heavily.
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