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The lack of (i)______ the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have expected, to (ii)______ poetry, but to a curious closure in which all poets and forms of poetry are (iii)_______ and alone, not even respected establishment poets, command excitement.
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Investigating physiological ______ is not how biologists typically study function and structure, but it is not entirely unreasonable--- if abnormalities in the lungs hinder breathing, then the lungs are very likely the organ required for breathing.
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Many great ghost stories remain________ about the existence of their phantoms, whereas others leave no doubt about their ghosts` reality.
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Although the courts have ______ an extremely flexible test for determining the admissibility of expert testimony, that does not mean that all experts will be allowed to testify.
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For more than 100 years, anarchism has been an embarrassing estranged sibling in the family of international radicalism, and its bad behavior had made it easy to ______ the awkward but important questions anarchism poses.
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Because the organization she inherited was remarkably _____,her first priority was the establishment of a vigorous fund-raising campaign.
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Governments frequently justify their attempts to ______material by claiming that such material must be kept strictly confidential for national security reasons when in fact the principal motive may be a desire to avoid political embarrassment.
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The reason geological activity on Mars is so (1)_____while on Earth it remains (2)______ is that Earth`s diameter is about twice the size of Mars`. Because Mars is smaller than Earth, it cooled faster, and therefore it lost the internal heat that drives tectonic activity.
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The archaeologist argues that botanists have often (i)_______ the role of human agency in the dispersal of floral species, pointing out that a range of plants that botanists formerly thought to be (ii)______were actually introduced to Australia by people in the recent and distant past.
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less (i)_________ the proposed environment measure than the (ii)_______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
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Genetic researchers have recently suggested that our political learnings may be determined by our DNA, a view that tends to undermine our reflective self-flattery. We (i)___________ the idea that personal politics are entirely (ii)_______. The genetic explanation for ideology (iii)__________ our belief that we are persuaded only by rational arguments.
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For literary critics and book reviewers, the notion of critical authority has become ______in an age of quick, teeming Internet response, where all the old critical standards and parameters are in the process of being reinvented.
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Rosen argues that in the early years of the United States, individual states played important roles in the governance of American Indians, thereby ________ the common assumption that Indian policy was exclusively the federal government`s domain.
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Katherine`s disobedient behavior earned her a ______ from her parent.
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Building the first United States transcontinental phone line required fundamental innovations: for example, engineers created an amplifier for the electric signals to prevent them from ______ after a few miles.
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While the hyperbole throughout the book is trying and does little to ______matters, it is not as worrying as the inaccuracies that accompany the book`s outdated exposition.
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While Fernandez-Armesto has amply documented the commercial, migratory, scientific, or religious motives of explorers throughout history, it is often harder to ________ the motives of modern explorer.
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Far from being (i)_______ the corporate world because of cutbacks, serious scientific researchers are playing a growing role in innovation in certain firms. The explanation for this apparent paradox is that innovative companies are not looking for full-time scientists; they want moonlighting academics, professors (ii)_______ to work temporary projects.
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The enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century acknowledged that unrestricted freedom to publish could (i)_______ motivated by envy or hatred, but they hoped that any such (ii)_________ enabled by expanded liberties would suffer from being publicly exposed.
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The man was an avowed (i)_____: he made no secret of his disdain for (ii)______ endeavor.
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