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An earlier generation of writers of historical novels, less ________ than today' s writers about the need to distinguish fact from fiction, were accordingly careful to point out exactly what was invented in their works.
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Unlike news reports, theater isn' t expected to stick to the facts. Built on a sandy foundation of make-believe and (i)________, the form, by nature, traffics in (ii)________. Good documentary drama exploits its inherent paradox: creating artifice from verbatim texts, it uncovers truths by playing on the tension between what' s real and what' s (iii)________.
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The article has been abridged for presentation to a nonspecialist audience, and the ________ by which this has been accomplished can be frustrating for any reader trying to reconstruct the argument in detail.
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Having seen her extravagant predictions of some years ago ________ by events, she is now more cautious: her current predictions are refreshingly free of hyperbole.
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A long-running philosophical debate in the field of stratigraphy—the study of sequences of sedimentary rocks—is whether the sedimentary record represents mainly (i)________ happenings (e.g., waves and tides) or their opposite, (ii)________ events (e.g., hurricanes and flash floods).
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Although Dostoyevsky was not the (i)________ portrayed by some biographers, at least implicitly guilty of the terrible crimes he depicted in his novels, he was notoriously (ii)________. Indeed, his attitude toward people who questioned him about his work was anything but friendly. No such problems bother students of Chekhov. On the contrary, it is difficult to think of a writer of equal fame and importance who, on close inspection, proves to be such a (iii)________ human being.
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Critics have universally recognized Toni Morrison for ________ the limited perspectives of mainstream United States history by reclaiming the narratives of African American history, particularly from a female point of view.
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The difficulty of understanding subtle behavioral cues in dolphins is undisputed, but this does not obviate the need for the evidentiary foundation of any study of dolphin behavior to be ________.
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That there were a dozen complex debates on the lawyer' s mind at any given moment did not (i)________ his ability to perform physical work; on the contrary, he labored more vigorously when simultaneously engaged in such (ii)________ forensic exercises.
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In writing about environmental issues, the author takes on some special artistic challenges. It is hard to write a good novel that takes a strong stand on a social issue, although there are a few novelists, Zola and Norris for example, who do manage to (i)________ the often circumscribing effects of (ii)________.
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The manufacturing company' s swift maneuver enabled it to evade the full impact of the increasing cost of raw materials, which brought the downfall of firms that responded less _______.
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Despite the critic' s assertion that Willa Cather' s place in the literary canon is now so entrenched that it scarcely matters if she were really a modernist, her reputation arguably remains _________.
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Some of the writers whose interviews with the Paris Review are included in this volume were caught in the final years of their lives, and these interviews thus lend ________ mood to the collection.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to present one scholar's
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The passage suggests that colonial men' s interests differed from colonial women' s interests in which of the following ways?
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It can be inferred from the passage that New Haven' s courts in the seventeenth century differed from New Haven' s courts in the eighteenth century in which of the following ways?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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