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Proponents of the legislation argued that its critics' valid but minor points did not________ the assertion that the bill would be far more beneficial than hurtful to the nation's citizens.
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When the columnist wrote about controversial issues, her own position was not always (i) _____________her analysis of the arguments being put forth on either side. If she (ii) _____________ the reasoning of proponents of one side, that did not mean that she rejected their position.
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Poets in the United States usually speak with more (i) _____________ for authentic experience than for the imagination. They cultivate strategies to make themselves sound (ii) _____________, as if poems were eyewitness accounts and not (iii) _____________.
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Humans can have (i) _____________tastes: crab brains and squeezable cheese are delicacies to many people, even as others find them repulsive. The preference for sweet and abhorrence of bitter is (ii) _____________, however.
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Much as our taste for sugar and fat served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but has become _____________ in a world of plenty, where we satisfy it to the point of obesity, our memories can work against us in our contemporary information age.
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Most of the bank-efficiency literature suggests that bank mergers culminating in larger, more complex organizations (i)_____________ significant economies of scale or scope that are (ii) _____________ to consumers. Indeed, some of this literature suggests diseconomies, which would lead to higher loan rates or lower deposit rates for consumers.
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There is a clear trend away from automobile ownership and solo driving among young people. One view holds that these young people will (i)_____________ as they age, but Willson argues that the trend is (ii)_____________ one. As a result, car-free lifestyles will become more (iii)_____________ .
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Since the deficit predicament is fundamentally a long-term problem, the legislature's _____________ short-term approaches has actually compounded the difficulty in each succeeding year, eroding the state's credit rating in the process.
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For a philosopher of the analytic tradition, Williams' approach is somewhat (i)_____________ . Unlike most analytic philosophers, Williams has not kept himself (ii)_____________ the rest of the humanities; in fact, he wishes to address colleagues in other fields in terms that will make sense to them. In particular, he objects to the (iii) _____________ character of analytic philosophy: the amount it tries to accomplish by conceptual analysis and a priori argument alone. Williams is convinced that philosophy must use history, including historical imagination, to understand and defend values of any kind.
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Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly _____________.
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Political debates supposedly exist to inform viewers, who watch them with open minds to learn about the candidates and decide how to vote. Of course, given the (i)_____________ that routinely permeates most debates, it is hard to (ii)_____________ that they fulfill their purpose.
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Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)_____________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander's architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)_____________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii) _____________ photographic artifact.
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One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____________: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.
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Letters present an awkward stumbling block to those who take a high line about literature as a custodian of moral values. The letters of accomplished poets and novelists are-as often as not-about drinking and infidelity, about sponging and wasting time. Consequently, one's (i)_____________ the writer as (ii)_____________ can often come in for a rude shock on contemplation of the writer's correspondence: the soul that composed the poems and the self that wrote the letters can seem (iii)_____________.
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Because we participate in the dynamics of ecosystems as we restore them, restoration practice is in essence antithetical to the idea of _____________ wilderness.
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For millennia, remembering was hard and costly, and people had to choose deliberately what should be remembered, allowing most things to be forgotten. The digital age has brought about an (i) _____________ of the balance of remembering and forgetting. Committing information to digital memory has become (ii) _____________.
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When reviewing a book that advertises lying as its subject, the critic has a duty to screen the title for possible (i) _____________, and it is therefore necessary to report that The Concise Book of Lying is not concise. lf the book were making a case for deception, the mismatch might not matter: a (ii) _____________ title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for (iii) _____________. But the book is not an apology for lying; it is on the side of truth.
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The composition of waste from discarded electronics is quite _____________: electronic waste contains more than 1,000 different substances, including heavy metals and flame retardants.
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Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________: in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared _____________.
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