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At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making _____________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
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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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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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The figure of Gertrude Stein _____________: more than a hundred books about her have been written during the past decade or so, and recently she was depicted in a popular Hollywood flm.
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Calasso is not an academic, but the head of a distinguished publishing house in Milan. So being (i) _____________literary intellectual, he feels no obligation to adhere to the rules of the academy: he does not (ii)_____________ the academic buzzwords and does not (iii) _____________ the prestige networks of a persistently self-regarding, insular, and entrenched academic world.
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A key characteristic in the author's presentation of his character's dreary life is _____________: paragraphs are short, sentences are laconic, patterns of repetition and
circularity are evoked by means of symbolic shorthand.
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Drug companies rarely pursue new pharmacotherapies for rare diseases because of the high failure rates and the cost of research, which make the companies'chances of recovering their investments_____________.
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Delilo' s writing seems strangely attenuated in the pages, stripped of its usual pop and fizz, its tactile sense of detail, and as a result the novel has_____________feel.
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In the late nineteenth century, many English lace-making towns and villages sold postcards that showed lace makers at work. The postcard images, designed to promote lace by imbuing the product with romantic nostalgia, were frequently (i)
_____________: the same women appear in numerous pictures, even those that ostensibly (ii)_____________.
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The failure of scholarly efforts to adequately characterize the fairy tale as a genre is (i)_____________ because the genre is so(ii)_____________: despite its currency and apparent simplicity, the term "fairy tale”(iii)_____________.
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At one time television was_____________: an episode aired and, if you missed it, you might, at best, have one more chance to see it during a summer rerun.
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Many in the software industry cling to an obstinate belief that the industry can weather any economic storm, but their_____________has been visibly shaken by a looming recession and aggressive consolidation in the high-tech industry.
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Interest in the recovery of lost works by Brazilian women writers is growing as scholars increasingly recognize writing by Brazilian women as inherently worth study, not as_____________ writing by Brazilian men.
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Historically, it has been unusual for scientific terms, once coined, to enter common usage with much_____________: "scientist" and "dinosaur"(coined in 1833 and 1842,respectively), for instance, were rarely used before the late nineteenth century.
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The (i)_____________of a rain forest is (ii)_____________. The extinction of a pollinator or seed disperse may cause the death of a plant species and with it many other species that depend on it.
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The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period detail, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is (iii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.
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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with_____________wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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In studying contemporary writing about love, critic Susan Ostrov Weisser notes a striking_____________: love is often treated skepticallyin “serious" literature, while mass-produced romance novels offer up dreamy idealization.
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Natasha Kholgade Banerjee notes that photo-editing applications have allowed everyday users to (i)_____________ the (ii)_____________ of a camera by providing the means to change image colors, move pixels around, and combine natural photographs with artificial elements.
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When Jourdain(i)_____________ that the "phonograph has been as disastrous to the development of the musical imagination as television has been to the literary imagination," he appears grumpy rather than reflective. (ii)_____________ the fact that there are arguably as many fine authors and poets now as ever, television notwithstanding, there is not a shred of evidence that musical recordings have had any(iii)_____________ effect on music in any way.
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