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Though it may not seem (i)________, the fate of the grizzly bears, which have been both feared and revered throughout history, may hinge on something as (ii)________ as a lowly moth.
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Proposed technological innovations aimed at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would likely be more (i)________ than transitioning to clean energy sources. Still, according to some energy experts, given the political barriers to emissions reductions, and the scale of reductions needed, it is (ii)________ that some carbon-capture technology will (iii)________ some of the worst effects of warming.
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Anyone who thinks that the contemporary media' s focus on celebrity gossip and rumor marks some sort of journalistic (i)________ will find in this book (ii)________. The book shows that we live, on the contrary, in a hitherto unexampled golden age of (iii)________.
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Contrary to the proclamations of many scientists, the problems visible in small, uncontrolled medical studies are not necessarily ________ larger, randomized controlled studies, which can be faulty as well.
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The figure of the female orator, though indubitably ________, was far from unknown in fifteenth-century Italy.
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Lorena de la Paz Carrete Lucero and her colleagues found (i)________ brand loyalty among Mexican car purchasers, which suggests that regardless of customers' current brand preferences, customers may be (ii)________ competitors' marketing strategies.
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Because the chemical and physical properties of a material are a function of its structure, the enhanced three-dimensional results derived from a crystallographic study have become ________ the overall characterization of any new material.
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The ________ of the folktales in this collection does not inhibit the conveyance of important lessons; indeed, the didactic effect would be lost if the stories were more protracted.
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Although researchers have studied cartilage' s behavior on the macroscopic scale, the several forces that scientists believe to be active on the molecular level have never been ________.
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The novel contains long, boring expository tangents designed to ________ readers, encouraging them to think they are reading a serious and important book, not just a thriller.
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In managing the economy, there is always tension between (i)________ and (ii)________. People want less government regulation, but not when it means firms can hire cheap child labor. People want open markets, but not so bankers can deceive investors.
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Although extreme and singular events occur in a black hole, its event horizon boundary is ________: space travelers crossing it would be subject to the same physical laws that apply anywhere else.
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Gilbert Blane confirmed in 1780 that citrus could cure scurvy, yet the British navy did not systematically treat afflicted sailors with citrus for another fifteen years, largely due to the ________ of the naval bureaucracy.
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What nearly all the reviewers agreed on was that Death of a Critic was a (i)________ book. Indeed, the farrago about the murder of the critic, who turns out not to have been murdered, followed by some bafflingly dispersive meanderings about the novelist who didn't do the deed, qualify Death of a Critic as a work of deep (ii)_______. The only pages that have any (iii)________ are those given over to an attack on the critic, Andre Ehrl-Konig.
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Some historians of science argue that chemistry had _______ scientific revolution in that seventeenth-century chemists failed to produce radical innovations parallel to those in other sciences at the time, and chemistry consequently matured later.
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Books by business school professors can usually be counted on to give (i)_______ view of technological innovation; this book (ii)_______ that stereotype, arguing that the digital revolution will be comparable to the industrial revolution in its positive effects on long-run economic growth.
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Innovative work in literary and cultural studies often proceeds by means of (i)_______: the interpreter places two objects side by side, one (ii)_______, the other entirely new to the conversation, and demonstrates how they mutually illuminate one another—half the genius lies in the simple act of unexpected, elegant (iii)_______.
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Engineers have become (i)_______ constructing static objects such as buildings and bridges, and the vehicles they design, from aircraft to automobiles, are sleek and impressive. Robots and other imitations of organic life, by contrast, always seem (ii)_______. Even in science fiction fantasies, robots lack the (iii)_______ that is typical of a living creature.
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The ocean' s heat capacity (the amount of heat needed to change its temperature) is far greater than that of dry land and thus _______ the ocean' s seasonal temperature changes.
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Although the nonscientist is amazed by the orderliness of elements in the periodic table, chemists consider this orderliness _______ because of the common origin and similarity of the units of matter that compose the elements.
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