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Like his fellow _____________ covering the campaign tour, who rarely had the luxury of spending more than one night in one place, Tony had his bags packed well before the evening fund-raiser.
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One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____________: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.
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Letters present an awkward stumbling block to those who take a high line about literature as a custodian of moral values. The letters of accomplished poets and novelists are-as often as not-about drinking and infidelity, about sponging and wasting time. Consequently, one's (i)_____________ the writer as (ii)_____________ can often come in for a rude shock on contemplation of the writer's correspondence: the soul that composed the poems and the self that wrote the letters can seem (iii)_____________.
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Those familiar with the insular conditions that once prevailed in Russia may be surprised by the _____________of eighteenth-century Russian composer Natalia Kurakina, who translated novels from French into ltalian and composed songs in both languages.
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Because we participate in the dynamics of ecosystems as we restore them, restoration practice is in essence antithetical to the idea of _____________ wilderness.
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For millennia, remembering was hard and costly, and people had to choose deliberately what should be remembered, allowing most things to be forgotten. The digital age has brought about an (i) _____________ of the balance of remembering and forgetting. Committing information to digital memory has become (ii) _____________.
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When reviewing a book that advertises lying as its subject, the critic has a duty to screen the title for possible (i) _____________, and it is therefore necessary to report that The Concise Book of Lying is not concise. lf the book were making a case for deception, the mismatch might not matter: a (ii) _____________ title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for (iii) _____________. But the book is not an apology for lying; it is on the side of truth.
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Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, published in 1543, laid out the theory that Earth and the other planets go around the Sun, _____________a long-held belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
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The composition of waste from discarded electronics is quite _____________: electronic waste contains more than 1,000 different substances, including heavy metals and flame retardants.
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Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________: in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared _____________.
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The methods for composting organic waste aim to (i) _____________nature's tendency toward decay- a process unfortunately often (ii)_____________ in landfills, where organic materials are packed so tightly that they have little access to the oxygen necessary for decomposition.
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In his perceptive study of the emergence and evolution of modern urban planning in Paris, Nicholas Papayanis challenges the widespread view of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann as (i) _____________ figure in modern conceptions of the city. Although Papayanis (ii) _____________ the importance of Haussmann's accomplishments and public work projects in the creation of modern Paris, he nevertheless argues that the forms of city planning and approaches to urban space these works display are less (iii) _____________ than has hitherto been thought.
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The artist reworked certain of his etchings in order to make the scenes they depict more logical, yet, paradoxically, the pictorial space seems to become more _____________ the more realistically it is defined.
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It is true that propagandists spout misinformation to serve their own ends, but if our minds were _____________ such garbage, the lies would die out quickly.
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Just two centuries after the _____________ of Chinese algebra under the Song, even the finest mathematicians of Ming China could not fathom earlier texts.
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The senator's attempt to convince the public that he was not interested in running for a second term was as _____________ as his opponent' s attempt to disguise her intention to run against him.
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One important ocean current moves warm water north and east from the Gulf Stream. As that current moves into higher latitudes, its water cools and finally sinks. This cold, highly oxygenated water is crucial in (i)_____________ the ocean's gaseous elements, rather than allowing them to become (ii) _____________, with oxygenated tops and oxygen-free bottoms.
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Although ants and humans have _____________ lifestyles, they fight their foes for many of the same economic reasons, including access to dwelling spaces, to territory, and to food.
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Unsurprisingly, the novelist's new work has not been without its critics, drawing particulal attention from those who have _____________ the vapidity of other novels of the same genre in a number of acerbic reviews.
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