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The artists sought to (i)____________ precisely the impulses that traditional or generally accepted thinking had (ii)___________. By cultivating instinctive, irrational awareness--which might come from dreams or from accepting results derived by chance or from a receptivity to taboo-they hoped to(iii)____________their audience`s sense of everyday reality.
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Producers are concerned about Broadway theater's economic straits, which, even setting aside current woe, could _______difficulty raising money for future productions.
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Like all mollusks, slugs have bodies that are very soft and far from (i)________, a prerequisite for most terrestrial animals. They get around the constant danger of desiccation by seeking out (ii)________microhabitats.
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During the 1950s and 1960s, theory-minded neoclassical economists came to (i)______ the field of labor economics, pushing their more fact-oriented colleagues to the margins. In more recent years, the theorists have become interested in just the sort of (ii)_______ issues they once associated with other economists and whose study they once (iii)_______.
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The essays in this collection, which explore the adaptation of literary texts to film, all (i)________ the view that the fidelity of film adaptations to their literary precursors is(ii) ________. In fact, the authors of these essays broadly concur that an emphasis on fidelity in film adaptations can be traced to an outmoded academic ideology that insistently prizes the literary in a way that(iii)________ the value of the cinematic.
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Wilson sees the ideas that he presents in his new book as being notably _______, but his critics, by contrast, claim that they are actually rather conventional.
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Many leading photographers have begun to produce work specifically for galleries and museums, and therefore, not surprisingly, they now regard the long-standing question of whether photography really (i)________ art to be (ii)________.
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Every few years, as a reviewer, one encounters a novel whose (i)________ are so many in number, and so (ii)_______ that to correct them fully would produce a text that exceeded the novel itself in length. Faced with such a book. one wishes only to let it slip quietly to the seabed of culture, there to join thousands of other (iii)________ books in their slow disintegration
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Looking back on a project that they had approached with both great________ and considerable aspirations, they were amused to recognize that neither the fears nor the hopes had been at all realistic.
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Recent discoveries suggest that mathematical techniques developed by ancient Babylonian astronomers________ those of medieval European scholars: Babylonian trapezoid procedures can be viewed as a concrete example of graphical methods devised by fourteenth-century philosopher Nicole Oresme.
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In noting that critical and popular opinions about Li`s art coincided, Chuang _____ the existence of an exception to her general theory of art criticism, which posits that critics` views do not intersect with those of the general public.
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A balanced point of view is not always a literary virtue, and, in fact, many of the best books are notable for their lack of ____________.
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The ____________ of the region's landscape belies its underlying geology: the rocks beneath its rolling hills are extraordinarily diverse in terms of their composition, textlire, and origin.
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Scientists may soon discover whether the limits on successfill cognitive functioning in old age that were once seen as (i)____________can instead be viewed as (ii)____________ assumptions that focused exclusively on observable age-related decline rather than on the potential for maximizing Iniman performance tlirough cognitive enriclunent.
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Unlike cultural theorists who speculate on the media's role in influencing fashion trends. Schweitzer and Scott have _________ approach to the study of fashion. observing activities at fashion magazines and rerail stores.
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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 laree distances it is gravity that dominates.
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His basic argument regarding individuals is that being (i)____________ a problem can lead to a creative (ii) ____________ . When we are relaxed, by contrast, we are more likely to direct our attention inward and thus detect the connections that lead to fruitful insights and discoveries.
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