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Researchers' use of charcoal particles in soil as a marker for human arrival in prehistoric North America is ________: fire was a part of the continent' s natural ecology long before humans appeared.
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Laboratory experiments testing whether memories can be purposely erased or implanted seem decidedly _________ compared to the sensational depictions of memory manipulation in movies, but such research has nevertheless yielded dramatic results.
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In the final scene of the movie, the character exhibits an almost unbelievable _________, remaining imperturbable in the face of intense and immediate physical danger.
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Though acknowledging the unstated assumptions that commentators on her paper had identified, the geologist pointed out that such assumptions were (i)________ the context of her research, and therefore their existence did not (ii)_________ her conclusions.
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When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they (i)________ a certain (ii)________ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a (iii)_________ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will.
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The book is a determinedly apolitical writer's attempt to deal with an explosive subject, and some readers will think it too ________: they will miss the impassioned engagement found in the works of her peers.
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When an organism is functioning normally, excessive fat is stored in adipose tissue. Thus, the (i)________ of such tissue may be (ii)________ the fat is diverted to other organs, such as the liver and the heart, causing serious health problems.
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In our solar system, Earth is the most ________ of the rocky, or terrestrial, planets, so when first searching beyond the solar system, scientists were not accustomed to planets of similar composition but many times the mass.
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The actor was quick to warn new members of the cast that the director's cherubic countenance belied ________ temperament.
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Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was just nineteen years old when Futurism erupted, but she later heeded that violent, belligerent art movement' s call in the (i)________ of her broad-shouldered suits, the rawness of her furs and embroidery, and her (ii)________ attitude, which her contemporaries described as "hard chic," toward any simpering or mincing in fashion.
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For any art lover who has sat through a high-stakes auction, where artworks often are applauded for their (i)________, there is something undeniably (ii)________ about encouraging more people to see (iii)________ rather than dollar signs, when they look at paintings on museum walls.
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The author' s comparisons of Sontag' s work to that of Walter Benjamin are _________: while the former is admittedly an influential figure, the latter is undoubtedly one of the most important critics of his era.
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Although anecdotes about her abound, it is difficult to verify facts about al-Khansa' —like many early poetic figures, she may well be a composite figure, her corpus _________ the works of many women poets.
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The fanciful notion that the legislative initiative would bring unlimited social benefits has soured into an equally _________ mood of skepticism and distrust.
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Native American art is not a (i)________ enterprise: it reflects differences among artists' personal, community, and tribal experience. As Native American artists continue to create the art that is valid for them, however, the (ii)________ in Native American art between traditional and modern styles (primarily promulgated by non-Native American critics) has become outmoded. There is heightened recognition that placing Native American art in these two opposing categories has had a (iii)________ effect on both artists and viewers.
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The geometry student struggled with the request to demonstrate the ________ proposition, feeling that, since opposite angles were self-evidently equal, there was no need for a proof.
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Given the extraordinary ________ of its arguments, it is surprising that the central thesis of the book can be stated so simply.
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In the realm of science and mathematics, ambiguity is generally seen as something that arises from erroneous understanding and must be overcome, yet ambiguity has often ________ developments in science and mathematics.
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During the Second World War, the substantial energy that industrial employers spent convincing workers to wear mandated safe attire suggests that compliance could not be _________
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Azarenka' s descriptions are not ________: they grow organically from the themes that animate her writing.
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