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While traditional Chinese historiography ostensibly described events in a neutral manner, early historians did not always _____________ tendentiousness, sometimes offering moral judgments about the historical figures they discussed.
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, science had come to be seen by the upper classes as a (i) __________, but the serious pursuit of science was generally believed to be (ii) __________ women. This created a situation in which science was (iii)__________ but at the same time beyond the reach of girls and women at anything except a superficial level.
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The type of cultural snobbery long associated with painting in the art world, whereby beloved popular works are (i) _____________ by critics, has appeared in the popular music industry. Bands with (ii) _____________ are critically (iii) _____________, whereas the more rarefied and minimally marketed performers can do no wrong in the opinion of the critics.
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Because connections made of the material are _____________to fail at high temperatures, it is particularly suited for sacrificial thermal cutoff switches; it is, of course, unsuited to applications where heat durability is needed.
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Astute and incisive, the essayist's work was nevertheless civil and polite: the essayist either had no gift of _____________ or else never felt any.
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Though extremely secretive about her own plans, she allowed her associates no such (i)_____________ and was constantly (ii) _____________ information about what they intended to do next.
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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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While the subtropical ocean gyres are (i) _____________ accumulation zones of floating plastic debris, the possibility of plastic accumulation at polar latitudes has been (ii) _____________ because of the (iii) _____________ of nearby pollution sources.
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Though she said nothing at all, Jane thoroughly understood her mother, she was not the _____________ child that everyone thought her to be.
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As modern organizations amass more and more digital information, they need guidance on how to deal with the information surplus in a way that is more _____________ than simply increasing their storage capacity.
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Despite his secure position as a writer, Samuel Richardson adopted a strangely _____________ posture, soliciting advice on early drafts of his second novel from readers familiar with his earlier work.
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By the time they enter sixth grade, many children sleep so little during the school week that daytime drowsiness may _____________ their ability to pay attention and learn.
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Satellite data show that earthguakes are sometimes _____________ by local anomalous changes in the ionosphere over their epicenters, suggesting a way of improving earthquake forecasts.
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Amerdeep Singh makes the radical suggestion that film adaptations are entirely (i) _____________ their source texts-that is, he completely dispenses with fidelity to the source as a measure of a film's success and claims that adaptations are (ii)_____________ creations.
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The mayoral candidate's recent speech was an excoriating critique of the incumbent's performance, and while it may have (i) _____________ her ardent followers, it was decidedly (ii) _____________, hardly the (iii)_____________utterances of a woman hoping to win over a broad swath of the voting public, including those who have opposed her in the past.
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According to Waters, Cheryl Fish's otherwise brilliant analysis of Mary Seacole is _____________ by a postmodern penchant for inventive jargon and fuzzy metaphysics.
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