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It was not out of mere _____ that Mozart, by then well established, sought out a young Beethoven-in the latter`s early work Mozart divined a genius that he hoped to, in some way, cultivate.
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Gearing up for the 2008 Olympics, the city of Beijing worked with impressive _____: the National Stadium, colloquially referred to as the Bird`s Nest, a work of such grandiosity that most municipalities would have labored five years to complete, was finished in less than half that time.
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Thumbing his nose with equal derision at Mozart as he did at Monet, Thomas was an avowed _____, treating all arts with contempt.
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Critics who charged that the technology start-up had blatantly appropriated the laptop design of the leading manufacturer failed to take into account a recent report citing that the start-up had been anything but _____, as not only was it the first to market, but pictures of its original design had initially surfaced publicly.
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The author`s name in shining lights-on the book jacket, that is-_____ the collective nature of the enterprise: before hundreds of seasoned eyes even pore over a final copy, the author has had many expert readers help fashion the novel from its very inception.
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The attempted _____ offered little in the way of a resolution; indeed the fate of many characters was left unanswered.
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Many high-tech CEOs, perceived as having absolute power over their respective domains, are accorded the same awe and esteem once reserved for _____ .
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Despite the formality of the occasion, he danced with _____, flailing his arms in the air uninhibitedly.
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There are few _____ thrills to be gleaned from Kafka`s writing, for his characters, which typically embody ideas, are not fleshed out enough for the reader to become fully immersed in their plights.
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The Olympic Cycling Team took their _____ at the base of the mountain, hoping that the extra calories would sustain them during the tortuous ascent.
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The incumbent was so roundly trounced in the latest polls that any notion he had at winning the election was illusory, nothing more than a(n) _____.
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That the psychopharmacological journal had already published the findings of the clinician`s experiment rendered _____ any prior misgivings she had regarding the validity of her control group.
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Revolutions do little to cure a nation`s _____ – the very agitation that allowed for a change in previous rule often precludes the formation of a viable government.
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The politician spoke in a tedious, pompous manner, _____ the entire duration of his speech.
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It behoves the president elect to forth will _____ the policies that kept his predecessor in good standing on both sides of the political divide.
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While she was unfailingly _____ to her superiors, such slavish obedience and unquestioning sycophancy never helped her ascend beyond the role of a lackey.
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Though the accounting firm was exonerated of any corporate malfeasance, the perception that it is not completely _____ has persisted.
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In censuring the academic committee for apparently being _____ in appointing a chancellor, the university president mistook deliberation for procrastination--the committee had been guilty of nothing more than a scrupulous vetting of all candidates.
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History has recast the 15th century Florentine monk Girolamo Savonarola as a rabble-rousing zealot lording over the "bonfire of the vanities"; yet this so-called _____ --mainly because he directed his censure at the church--was a crusader for austerity and thus a check on a papacy that had run a course of profligacy.
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For Nancy, teatime was no mere _____: she was so persnickety that each step of the process-heating, steeping, and stirring-was executed with the solemnity and exactitude of a surgeon.
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