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Potential readers may well be put off by the rather opaque quality of the prose in this book, which at times seems deliberately __________ the uninitiated reader.
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One can only bemoan how the wonderfully rich collections of genuine fossil specimens seen of yore in museum displays are being replaced by the __________ talking plastic of so-called virtual reality.
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The development of junior high schools in American education was motivated by________ rather than by pedagogical validity: these schools provided an efficient and inexpensive way to eliminate overcrowding in the high schools.
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In considering human behavior, theoreticians tend to emphasize cognition in spite of the fact that psychological research suggests the________ of affect: it suggests that our behavior derives above all from fast, automated emotional judgements.
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The (i)______ of the entrepreneur that the microfinance boom has helped foster is understandably appealing. But thinking that everyone is, and should be, an entrepreneur can encourage a tendency to (ii)_____ the virtues of larger businesses and the income that a steady job can provide.
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The geographer held a (i)________ view of the succession of theoretical trends( environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (ii)________ what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.
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There may be something (i)________ about the very idea of jest, because it obeys no rules. The art of caricature, by contrast, is (ii)________.
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Rocke`s history of the emergence of the theory of chemical structure encapsulates over 30 years of research on nineteenth-century chemistry. This is (i)________, since structure theory emerged gradually through the efforts of a network of chemists distributed across several countries. Rocke focuses on just a few key figures, a strategy that necessarily involves some (ii) _______ of detail but that leads to (iii)________ account of the subject.
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Many innovative breakthroughs come about when people venture beyond their own areas of expertise, because often it takes an outsider to ask the naïve questions that may yield________ solution.
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In 1839, working-class revolution have been a real possibility in the industrialized countries of western Europe, but because revolutionary groups were poorly organized and led, government and employers regarded the movements with understandable________.
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The panel`s failure to acknowledge the microbiologist as important in her field cannot be________ a lack of accomplishment on her part, since her status as an important contributor to biology has been indisputably established.
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Meera Mukherjee observed that while the work of the artisan has its well-defined contours, the artist is without palpable________: like an explorer, the artist continually faces new regions of experience.
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Dialogue exchanges indicating deep-seated rivalries among the characters abound in the novel, but they are almost always associated with________ events---everyday commercial transactions, for instance, or the preparation of an evening meal.
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Intuitively, something is considered to the matter if, and only if, there is mass along with energy and/or momentum associated with it. In other words, possession of mass along with energy and/or momentum is regarded as (i)________, rather than (ii)________, property of matter.
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Around the early 1980s, technology companies began creating the first portable machines that resemble today`s laptop computers. Still, for many years, large and bulky desktop computers (i)________ the market, because you always had to (ii)________ something for portability. Compared with laptops, desktops had more power, bigger screens, more comfortable keyboards, and more storage space.
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Her lecture was entertaining though unoriginal: she hoped that by (i)________ her audience, she could (ii)________ the hackneyed observations on which her argument depended.
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In general memoirs focus sharply on particular, and particularly memorable, events rather than on the entire life. This (i)________ structure inevitably emphasizes drama at the expense of (ii)________.
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The danger often facing authors of satirical works is that if the audience is not (i)________ the joke, the piece may end up (ii)________ the behavior it was trying to (iii)________.
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We hold our breath so naturally and casually that it may come as a surprise to learn that the full details of this ability still________ scientists.
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Spiderwebs suspended on flexible supports________ even in low airflow in patterns that are erratic, enhancing the probability of insect capture over a volume of space.
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