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The author argues that while Emily Dickinson was profoundly rooted in a particular place and culture, her poetry was anything but _______ .
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While most exoplanets detected by telescope missions such as Kepler share common features, planets with such features are not necessarily more ____________ than other types of planets; they are simply easier to find.
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By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock, systematic timekeeping has imposed a form of ______________ on society.
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Counterintuitively, sea levels that are falling absolutely can result in the _______________ of coastal landscapes in cases where the landmass is falling faster than the sea.
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There is a striking difference between evolution and development. The path an embryo takes through developmental space forms a repeating loop, with embryos traversing basically the same regions of space every generation. This is in contrast to evolution, where the paths taken by species through genetic space are more (i)______________ and do not have a (ii)______________ character.
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Perhaps most (i)______________ to early-twentieth-century critics of outdoor advertising was that their legislative successes did little to diminish the exponential growth of the industry. Indeed, their reform legislation to some extent (ii)______________ industry expansion, as each new legislative action affirmed bill posters' right to occupy all but specifically proscribed spaces.
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Until recently one could be forgiven for thinking that early printing in England was a predominantly (i)______________ enterprise. This impression has now been (ii)______________ by a variety of evidence that demonstrates that several monasteries became directly involved in the production and publication of printed books in the early sixteenth century.
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About 8.000 years ago, in the early Holocene, because temperatures were more (i) ______________ than today, the Tibetan Plateau seems to have been largely (ii)______________ ice. However, the Guliya ice cap in the western Kunlun Mountains of the Plateau likely (iii)______________ during the Holocene warm-up because the Westerlies-the same winds that keep Siberia, Russia, an icebox-blow through the Kunlun Mountains.
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In the last century, astronomy has become a much more __________________ science thanks to the ability of physicists to recreate many stellar and planetary processes in their laboratories.
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Constructivist views of science tend to foreground the _________________ of discoveries by emphasizing the coutext. community, controversy, and communication of scientific practice.
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Small, shallow cumulus humilis clouds are seemningly _______________, yet it is from fields of these so-called fair-weather clouds that thunderstorms eventually develop.
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As a subject of study, geology has proven to be _________________: while other sciences progressed using telescopes, microscopes, and beakers. Earth could not be viewed through a single lens or reduced to a laboratory experiment.
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Astronomers affiliated with larger scientific institutions are often seen by their peers as ___________________: successful practice of astronomy today is contingent upon easy access to sizeable and costly instruments.
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Whereas water on Mars could plausibly have been delivered by repeated comet impacts in the geologically recent past, the ice on smaller bodies is more difficuIt to attribute to _______________ source.
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As choreographers, neither Christopher Wheeldon nor AlexeiRatmansky is ___________________: in watching their work,you see how much they derive from earlier choreographers and how much this sense of heritage enlivens their dances.
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Projections based on climate models are notoriously uncertain and this uncertainty is ___________________ our lack of knowledge about how climate change will affect plants.
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The idea that the spoken English of Shakespeare' s time remains alive and well in certain rural areas is a remarkably_________________ one: this myth resurfaces in the media quite regularly.
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Many introduced invasive plants ________________ the reduction in competition following natural disturbances, but there are some, such as garlic mustard and herb Robert,that even invade and affect areas that are undisturbed.
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Confounding the perception of needlework as _____________ the Oxburgh embroideries,executed by a sixteenth-century Scottish queen and her attendant,incorporate text and imagery from books byr astinguished scholars of the time.
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