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The ____________ effectiveness of lithium as a mood-altering drug for both manic and depressive states cannot be completely explained; most mood-altering drugs can only be used to modify one state or the other.
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Movie critic Pauline Kael was indifferent to clothes, casual about worldly goods. She loved to wield her power over people in the movie business but (i)____________ the usual outward signs of status and power, so that one of the thrills of spending time with her was to see film industry bigwigs (ii)____________ a person who made so little effort to appear important.
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According to Edelstein, republicanism was a ____________ movement in eighteenth-century France, though not nearly as peripheral as has sometimes been claimed.
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The film' s pat and occasionally preposterous story is really just a ____________, a serviceable scaffolding for a handful of expert, satisfying individual performances.
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During the early modern period, most playwrights depicting historical events did not shrink from ____________: they freely mingled elements from the past with those of the present in ways that evoked parallels between historical periods.
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Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally ____________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.
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The flow of polluted material is probably (i)____________ enough to give rise to significantly damaging health effects, but estimates of the rates of infection are still too (ii)____________ to say much more than that.
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The levels of risk associated with construction and development in growing cities are (i)____________ as a consequence of urbanization, precautionary works, and environmental change. Because most risk assessment studies are the result of specific research grants or single contracts, they are seldom updated to reflect changes. Therefore, there is a danger that existing results on hazard and risk, although (ii)____________ at the time they were produced, could become (iii)____________ as time
passes.
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Toni Morrison' s 1998 novel was originally called War, but her publisher was concerned about the title's effects on efforts to market the book; in order to_____________those apprehensions, Morrison changed the title to Paradise.
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Unsurprisingly, the novelist's new work has not been without its critics, drawing particular attention from those who have_____________the vapidity of other novels of the same genre in a number of acerbic reviews.
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The greatest_____________ true international free trade is public opinion: radical opposition to economic globalization at a grassroots level continues to grab headlines.
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Scientists generally consider a wholesale melting of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets in the twenty-first century unlikely, even if global warming continues, Nevertheless, because scientific knowledge of the dynamics of land ice sheets is(i)_____________,there is a possibility that the risk of
significant melting of land ice(ii)_____________
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Menand writes that academic departments "could use some younger people who think that the grown-ups got it all wrong" He(i)_____________ the absence of a challenge to the reigning ideas in the discipline and laments the culture of(ii)_____________in professors and graduate students alike. He notes with regret that the profession is not reproducing itself so much as (iii)_____________itself.
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The breathless pace of the Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple was _____________ given the adaptation's determination to cram in so many of the incidents that appear in the original source.
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The mating system of humpback whales appears to rely on_____________: although humpbacks are found in widely varying densities throughout any winter breeding range, they frequently return in large numbers to specific locations.
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In a recent citizen-scientist participation project, zealous volunteers (i)_____________organizers by classifying an entire catalog of galaxies years ahead of schedule; (ii)_____________by the_____________ of the volunteers, the research team was inspired to pursue lines of research they had never even imagined.
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The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period details, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is(ii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.
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Even if quantum logic has not been shown to be wrong, it has proved to be_____________，it fails to link up in interesting ways with mainstream developments in mathematical physics.
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Scientists could not build on each other' s work if they could not trust the published work of other scientists; thus progress in science depends on the _____________of practicing scientists.
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The (i)_____________that one occasionally finds in the columnist's articles are so memorable that many people think of her as being far more (ii)_____________ than she in fact is.
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