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Harper Lee's narration in To Kill a Mockingbird is _____, mixing an adult's and a child's perspective according to no logic other than the immediate exigencies of the plot.
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The Labrador duck is one of the most _____ extinct birds: although there are a fair number of specimens, few have yielded reliable data and little is known about the species` breeding patterns.
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The research found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are (i)_____: when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (ii)_____.
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Mr. Stevens found that home schooling, far from representing (i)_____ philosophy, (ii)_____ some of the most widely accepted education ideas: that children should be treated as individuals, taught in small numbers, and given a measure of discretion over their own learning.
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He was never (i)_____; he was nothing if not (ii)_____, so he forbore for the present to declare his passion.
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Computers make it spectacularly easy to search for particular pieces of information in
downloaded texts. And doing research in this strategic, targeted manner can
feel (i)_____. Instead of (ii)_____ the organizing logic of the book you are reading, you can approach the book with your own questions and (iii)_____. You, not the author, are the master.
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Given our species` increasing numbers and appetites-which are reflected in and compounded by global climate change-even (i)_____ species are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future. If we are to avoid a calamitous loss of biodiversity, according to Golbe, we cannot simply let nature take its course. Ongoing conservation management is (ii)_____, as we have, in a sense, become nature, and the responsibilities that come with the role cannot be (iii)_____.
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Miller reminded his clients that labor relationship are inherently _____; the interests of business owners are diametrically opposed to those of employees.
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Progressive and reactionary populist movements are not necessarily _____; each may, and usually does, possess features of the other.
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Although one can adduce myriad of examples of ecosystem disruption by nonindigenous species, nevertheless most introduced species that survive in fact appear to have quite _____ effects on the ecosystem they have invaded.
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Although field studies have linked inbreeding to declines among song sparrow populations, some researchers argue that, in nature, inbreeding proves _____ as a factor when compared with crushing blows from weather changes.
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One view of historicism holds that systems of belief prevalent during different periods in history are _____ and therefore cannot be understood except in their own term.
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The company suffers from an almost total lack of _____: even the most innocuous communications between departments lend to devolve into acrimony.
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One way to predict the effects of global climate change on an ecosystem is to extrapolate current trend in global change factors into the future. A (i)_____ of this method is that its predictions (ii)_____ actual observation, but the method also makes the questionable assumption that the future will resemble the present.
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So (i)_____ is the reputation of the city`s police force for (ii)_____ that whenever a new police chief take office, he or she routinely promises to clean up the force.
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Scientists said that cosmology was the field where the ratio of theory to data was (i)_____: there was an abundance of theories, but almost no data. Recently, however, that ratio has flipped. A huge and ever-increasing amount of data has (ii)_____ all theories but one.
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Many fairy tales are complex narratives of wish fulfillment. They teach the reader that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is (i)_____, that it is an intrinsic part of human existence, and that if one does not (ii)_____, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end (iii)_____.
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Despite her rather _____ choices, Moreland was neither a rebellious spirit nor someone who saw herself as anything out of the ordinary.
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Despite their cultural and social significance, rapid growth, and widespread appear in China, video games—unlike traditional media—have received _____ attention from international communication researches.
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The artist`s career was remarkable partly because it was so _____: she died, with only a few paintings to her credit, while still in her twenties.
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