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Our eating habits are rooted in our physiology, but they are also __________ the culture in which we grow up.
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Though Fine leavens her work with humor and playfulness, she can be _______ writer, mincing no words in her judgements of other scientists' work.
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The nineteenth-century legislator Robert Barnwell Rhett was known for using language so intemperate that even in an era of considerable political ______, it came almost to occupy a category of its own.
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Throughout the High Middle Ages, the English government became increasingly ______: the documents produced in the eleventh century could be placed on one large table, while the documents produced in the thirteenth fill whole rooms.
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Some have challenged scientists who attribute the surge in amphibian deaths to habitat loss, since numerous populations have (i)_____ in protected parks and nature reserved—even in remote wilderness areas: places that are removed from humans' modern effluvium and that are presumably (ii)_____ such effects.
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Though nations no longer (i)_____ nuclear physicists—the men and women who once delivered the destructive power of the atom bomb—physics still has the same power to (ii)_____ but in another way, by revealing the basic truths that underpin reality.
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Those who blame the inadequacies of science education for students' lack of reasoning skills perpetuate their productive notion of science as (i)_____, unique in its capacity to inoculate us against superstition and ignorance. Certainly a good science education can (ii)_____ habits of mind, but the (iii)_____ effect of education in nonscientific, humanistic subjects such as literature and history should not be underrated.
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Media stories about climate regularly use spokespeople from interest groups as sources, but what those individuals say is often (i)_____, citing results from scientific research in a highly (ii)_____ manner and (iii)_____ the caveats that are part of a full scientific assessment.
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It is an ironic reversal that just those politicians who most vociferously _____ the distorting complexities of the country's tax system are now the ones embracing an agreement that worsens the mess.
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There is very little _____ in culture: an art form or a practice (or a language or an institution) can become extinct in a generation if it does not evolve.
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Climate change without the Arctic is a recognized_____ change elsewhere: around the world, ocean levels and daily weather are interconnected with the fortunes of a region that was, until recently, largely ignored.
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In spite of being one of the world's biggest _____ of fossil fuels, the firm has made some environmentally responsible investments.
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The notion that the director is the center of the team has been ______, but in fact it has not been accepted by academia.
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The paradoxical characteristic of the reliable employee Donna is her ______, as we consider her usual feigning illness to escape from her labor.
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Though the play crackles with humor, the dialogue is less (i)_____ when it comes to the drama`s emotional core. There the players tend to spell out their emotions in (ii)_____ aphorisms, and repeat them as necessary.
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If all stars are fiery gas balls like our own sun, and if the principle that the situation of our own solar system is not (i)_____ is (ii)_____, then one might think that many other stars should be surrounded by a retinue of planets and moons.
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For Ruskin, architecture serves the community only when approached in a spirit of piety and (i)_____. Architecture must set effective boundaries to public space, and it does so by (ii)_____ the desire to show off, to stand out, to record the artistic flair of some temporary ego. Architecture succeeds in its public task through (iii)_____ and devotion, of the kind that can be observed in the moulding, firing and laying of a properly proportioned brick, but which is violated at every point by Frank Gehry`s bombastic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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The fall of the monarchical order produced a score of fragile successor states in Europe that _____ ethnic discontent and revanchism. This (ii)_____, when fused with those states` inherent feebleness, make for power voids and political (iii)_____.
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The use of retail coupons is commonly touted as a consumer benefit, discounting the price on an item; however, if the coupon relates to an item that the consumer neither needs nor wants, the discount is _____.
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During the fifteenth century, three aspects of the mathematical sciences were usually singled out as _____: their preparatory value for the study of philosophy, their practical advantage for the community, and their antiquity.
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