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Jaime Javier Rodriguez notes that popular art forms often conceal a daunting complexity: frequently what appears __________ becomes intricate and challenging when closely examined.
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Although collisions between the largest planetesimal belt are _________, they can release large amounts of debris when they occur.
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Because it has usually been impossible to eradicate exotic species once they have become established, it is ____________ to minimize introductions of species that have substantial probabilities of unwanted impacts.
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Mathematical knowledge has long been regarded as being essentially stable and hence rooted in a world of ideas only superficially __________ to historical forces.
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The watchword in astronomy is ____________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one`s mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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Many elected officials have (i)__________ into believing that the new reforms represent a solution rather than (ii)__________ of the problem. Unfortunately, such self-deception is not uncommon among politicians.
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The virtual absence of cougars from late prehistoric faunas in the North American Great Basin (i)__________ a general scarcity of carnivores from these sites: bobcats, coyotes, and badgers are routinely found, and even such historically (ii)____________ carnivores as bears and wolves are found as well.
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Except for a few passages in the biography in which the subject`s flaws are (i) ___________, the author`s treatment of her subject is (ii)_____________.
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The chocolate company`s scientists hoped that once they had (i)___________ the chemical makeup of cocoa beans, the knowledge would enable them to produce (ii)_____________ the beans` taste, which could then be used to (iii)_____________ future failures in the cocoa bean supply.
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In the Old Southwest, only writers who showed exceptional __________ were likely to become widely known, because the region's weak infrastructure inhibited the development of publishing beyond local newspapers that served small towns.
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One of the peculiarities of humans is that we irrationally gravitate to the predictable and avoid risk; whatever the reasons for this __________, it is hardly a sound basis for dealing with complex, long-term problems.
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The adipose tissue in which our bodies store fat from the food we eat has traditionally been thought of as __________, but in reality this tissue constitutes a dynamic organ, not a mere repository.
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The sound of disembodied human breathing in Miyazaki`s films is at once a presence, close to the listener`s ear, and a ghostly absence due to its lack of a visual __________.
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Despite having been designated as an interdepartmental effort, the project involved no real ______________ of viewpoints.
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Although it would be hard to explain the properties of a tornado in terms of the physics of electrons and quarks, this difficulty may be a calculational ___________, not an indicator of the need for new physical laws.
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Historian Barbara Alpern Engel`s task in writing a book about women in Russia can hardly have been a (i)__________ one, because the (ii)_____________ the peoples within Russia`s borders meant that Russian women could never be treated as a homogeneous group.
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At first glance, each of the stories in the anthology seemed (i)__________; upon closer inspection of their protagonists, implied morals, and fantasy elements, however, subtle similarities among the stories emerged to (ii)_________ this initial observation.
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Whereas in the early nineteenth century phrenologists had seen every part of the brain surface as the seat of a specific intellectual or moral faculty, the 1830s and 1840s saw a (i)___________ of this belief, to such an extent that the brain came to be seen as (ii)__________.
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Each memoir must (i)___________ by making an implicit claim that the life of its author is somehow (ii)_________. Thus, if the reader begins to experience a memoir as too (iii)_________, the memoir has lost its reason for being.
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The relationship between mental function and brain anatomy is nowhere near as ___________ as in the case of the body: we cannot just look and see what does what in the brain.
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