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Child actor Shirley Temple' s ascendance to top box-office status in the 1930s might seem ______________ but her stardom came at the end of a long period in which little girls were central to film.
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Fasting constitutes one of the most significant physiological ______________ the human body: nutrient limitation instigates a wide range of metabolic processes to produce energy normally provided by glucose in food.
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Boas' literary versions of Native American oral narratives suggest that the printed text can constitute a legitimate mythic narrative, one that unfortunately _________________ the experience of performance but that hais some compensating advantages.
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Predicting the trajectory of waterborne parasitic disease requires considering the ___________ of some macroparasites in host populations: if a few population members harbor the majority of the parasites, their death may end an outbreak.
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Barbara Johnson' s 1982 essay on Mary Shelley' s Frankenstein drew upon feminist texts written for a popular, rather than academic,audience without __________________: Johnson' s critique is dense and theoretically sophisticated.
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_________________ is common in butterflies,especially in tropical forests: some species occur predominantly in the canopy, others in the understory,wvith only a handful of species occupying both microhabitats.
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Recent art historians are relatively _______________: for example, Smith has much more to say about Leonardo and Michelangelo than his predecessors ever did.
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The calls some birds make in the presence of predators are structured to ______________: with tapered starts and stops, these calls lack the abrupt onsets that would provide cues to predators about the sounds'origin.
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Meteorologists often make no strict distinction between sand and dust storms, events during which winds raise minute land-based particles into the atmosphere, since every storm contains _________________ particles.
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The constant movement of Earth's outer shell produces a significant amount of geological ______________: volcanoes that result trom the interactions of tectonic plates, for example, differ in size, shape, chemistry, and eruption style.
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While both western and eastern Australian deserts occasionally experience drenching rains, the western deserts are covered by sand sheets so __________ that, even during huge rainfalls, very little water runs off and surface rivers rarely form.
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In some respects, all geological evidence is __________: we can't, for example, measure ancient aridity, but large-scale Aeolian cross-bedding, sand ripples, evaporites, and rounded sand grains are the results of it, and together, suggest the presence of a desert.
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Saturn' s planetary ring system is arguably the _______________
structure known to humankind: it has an end-to-end dimension equivalent to the distance traveled by circling Earth seven times but a vertical height about that of a house.
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In general, mass-blooming trees (i.e., trees that grow close together and flower at the same time) use pollinators that are relatively _______________, which puts a greater number of pollinators at their disposal.
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The common archaeological emphasis on changes in the shape of prehistoric stone implements should not _____________ the fact that other materials, such as wood, bone, and antler, were also used for tools throughout the Paleolithic era.
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Scholars have ______________ the notion that women in ancient Greece attended dramatic performances: although many think it is probable that they did, others contend that most women could not attend because of their child-care responsibilities.
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Dobbs is __________ writer but a conventional thinker: her first-rate prose keeps stumbling over her second-rate ideas.
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The effect of the distant past on an individual's financial decisions _______________ much more slowly than the authors of the study had expected, with the impact of events early in life persisting decades into the future.
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The society of the ancient Moche of northern Peru was ____________ one: it was ruled by local lord who were overseen by an elite composed of administrative and religious authorities.
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