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The standard wisdom now is that sciences undergo periodic ruptures so thorough that the generations of scientists on either side of the break express themselves in mutually_____________ languages.
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Perhaps the best one can say of this new book of criticism is that it is scintillatingly (i)_____________. The author is adept at dealing with trivial details in the poets he studies, but he is quite (ii)_____________ when it comes to illuminating the overall vision. The verbal intricacy and panache of his writing contrast with its conceptual (iii) _____________. lf there are very few authentic ideas in the poems under consideration, there is also a shortage of them in the author's commentary.
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.Given that in human prehistory social life was organized in close-knit communities, early forms of economic exchange were probably (i) _____________ other social relations; however, with trade taking place across ever greater geographic distances, there is evidence that economic and social networks became increasingly (ii) _____________.
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The tape recorder is to blame for the (i) _____________ of the interview and has thus had a (ii)_____________ effect on journalism. The possibility of verbatim reproduction has fostered the illusion that the voice of truth is that of the interviewee rather than the more critically detached voice belonging to the journalist, Maybe journalists should return to the lowly notebook, which allows them to (iii)_____________ while listening, relegating the tape recorder to its real role of invaluable witness.
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Central control of the country's power grid is difficult because of the _____________ of the electricity industry-it is made up of hundreds of local networks with separate owners.
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The songwriter' s (i) _____________ nature can lead her audiences to forget that her songs are about painful experiences just as often as they are about (ii) ______________ ones.
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We have been so persuaded that (i) _____________ and disgraceful conduct go together that we find it difficult to believe that an affable man such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can be (ii) _____________ of both goodness and superior ability. Indeed, appalling conduct is sometimes itself (iii) _____________ the greatest talent.
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It can be a daunting task to plunge into the disparate and extensive data sets on the carnivores and _____________ meaningful patterns from their extraordinary morphological, behavioral, and ecological diversity.
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Oral traditions are (i) _____________ nearly everywhere, and in nonliterate societies they do not (ii) _____________ at their first exposure to the written word. Despite Goody's contention that a kind of literacy line cuts through history, dividing oral from print cultures, it seems that traditional tale-telling can (iii) _____________ long after a print culture is established.
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Judge Jones brought some welcome levity to the often tense, though sometimes_____________, proceedings.
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Gravity is the _____________ of the four fundamental forces existing in nature, the others being the electromagnetic force, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, yet over large distances it is gravity that dominates.
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Epitomizing the (i) _____________ of many of life's pleasures, the exquisite Japanese sweets known as jornamagashi cannot be (ii) _____________, but rather, doomed by their hizh moisture content, must be eaten at once.
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In her book, Schmidt (i) _____________ confidence in her opinions. She is excessively (ii) _____________ authorities, even when gently rejecting their views. lt is always a pleasure to encounter the lucid, astute prose of academics from the past, but this book is (iii) _____________ a surplus of pedestrian quotations from the less notable.
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Although the evidence to date is that the regime is _____________ freedom, this does not imply that any other regime would be more compatible with freedom: on the contrary, others are almost certain to be less so.
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Psychologists and neuroscientists have become fascinated by our (i)_____________ storytelling, wondering why our brains seem to be wired to (ii) _____________ stonies.
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Originality of artistic subject matter was never (i) _____________ in ancient Egypt-in fact, it was generally (ii) _____________; as a result, the artist's ambition was concentrated solely on thoroughness and precision of execution.
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As the global climate warms, some deserts, expanding to higher latitudes, are beginning to _____________ fertile reglons.
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The wealth of insightful and challenging articles found in the journal is astounding in a world where mainstream publications increasingly focus on the most _____________ of topics.
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Because a glacier's front evolves as a function of its size and the local topography (such as the slope and orientation to the Sun), two similar neighboring glaciers can undergo _____________ fuctuations in length.
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Compared to the lmpressionists' rendition of women's garments in their paintings, the dresses on display for the exhibition lmpressionism, Fashion, and Modemity provide visitors with a (i) _____________ of nineteenth-century fashion. This is in part because the dresses in the display cases are (ii) _____________ museum pieces in the most static sense of the term, Depicted on canvas, on the other hand, the same dresses are (iii) ____________and nearly inseparable from the movement of the women wearing them.
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