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Discussions of impending water shortages are often couched in apocalyptic rhetoric, yet if the language is somewhat_____________, the basic message is sound: water is indeed scarce and growing scarcer.
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The (i)_____________scientists-the notion that they are elitists scornful of the masses is in no sense(ii)_____________the eighteenth century, since in our own time one does not have to look far to find such disdainful attitudes.
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Train stations are visually evocative, full of shadows and movement and space: it is hardly(i)_____________ that they are so (ii)_____________filmmakers. But the range of films that exploit stations, trains, and the prospect or memory of rail travel is quite (iii)_____________. No other form of travel has lent itself to international cinema in quite this way.
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The artist' s reputation remains somewhat marginal, a peripheral but persistent position that is perhaps just what she desires, since her art seeks a cult status that might be_____________by her becoming too familiar.
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The indigenous uprising in Bolivia in 2008 was not_____________: in 1781 indigenous people took over the area near present-day La Paz in what constituted the biggest challenge to the Spanish who then controlled Bolivia.
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The danger of valuing animals in proportion to their apparent possession of human characteristics is the subject of Budiansky's new book, an extended critique of_____________ in animal behavior research.
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The pronghorn antelope in northem Mexico may be viewed as (i)_____________species, as most of the North American prairie, its chief historical habitat has (ii)_____________.
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Though the poet James Merrill was showered with prizes during his lifetime, his work has always elicited a certain amount of (¡)_____________. Everyone seems to agree that Merrill' s verse is elegant, but that adjective sometimes crries a faint (ii)_____________, implying an absence of depth or intensity. The formal facility and surface dazzle that some find so awesome represent for others (iii)_____________.
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The author's point is not that people should be _____________science; he is careful to point out that what science is discovering about humans, for example, is certainly important and worthy of careful consideration.
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Increasing (i)_____________to use land for purposes other than food production (ii)_____________expanding agriculture into currently uncultivated lands. Therefore, in order to meet growing global demand for food, more efficient means of crop production must be found.
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Eventually, the framed painting looked as Easton had hoped it would, the frame offering a subtle rebuke to some of the more ostentatious baroque confections on display, Easton believed that it was more (i)_____________ than any other frame in the exhibition, despite its (ii)_____________quality. That apparent simplicity, however, was so much more difficult to realize than something more obviously(iii)_____________.
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The indigenous uprising in Bolivia in 2008 was not_____________: in 1781 indigenous people took over the area near present-day La Paz in what constituted the biggest challenge to the Spanish who then controlled Bolivia.
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The simplicity of Ann Hamilton's sculpture, a single drop of water snaking its way down a vast white wall, _____________ the elaborate technical apparatus hidden beneath its surface.
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According to one prominent sociologist, the insider doctrine - the claim that only a member of a particular group should study that group - is inherently_____________in that the doctrine assumes that, to put it colloquially, "you have to be one to understand one."
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The First World War (i)_____________the achievements of two decades of disease eradication efforts and, terrifyingly, led to the (ii)_____________of malaria throughout ltaly.
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She had a feeling that was not yet fully articulated, _____________ sense that something extraordinary and wonderful awaited her.
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The team of physicists regarded the data as too_____________not to study with fresh eyes and first questions.
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The research institute publishes new material on its Web site well in advance of its appearance in print; inevitably, there is a lot of dross, but fortunately, much of the material is both ______________ and free.
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The rural Renaissance villas were working buildings. The agricultural world they served is now gone. To see it you therefore have to (i)_____________it, but that can be aided by the nineteenth-century photographs taken just before the agricultural revolution destroyed the old order, Not that those photographs themselves are always completely(ii)_____________: Virginia creeper growing up a Renaissance villa is a botanical anachronism and also (iii)_____________ piece of planting (rats climb up the creepers and get at the grain stored in the attic).
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Personal computers have become so _____________that the use of digital evidence collected from them is now a common part of many criminal and civil investigations.
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