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The researcher's recent study provides a crucial introduction to the subject of ancient Chinese tombs, supplying objective data and classifying recovered items, but that introduction is (i) ___________ insofar as it (ii) _________ questions about possible meanings of the arrangement of items within the tombs.
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Linus Torvalds` adamant opposition to (i) _______ the operating system he created probably (ii) _______ programmers who were wary of any activities by software distributors that smacked even remotely of commercialism.
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As a work of popular science the book is (i) _______: its focus may be on numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices--and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as (ii) _______.
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The (i) _____ in some portions of Sanskrit accounts of their author`s activities at India's seventeenth-century Mughal court make our knowledge of those activities (ii) ______ in some of its particulars. In general, however, these accounts present claims that are (iii) ______, so it is reasonable to use the accounts to construct an overarching social history of these authors' court lives.
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As a muralist John Thomas Biggers followed his own voice exclusively; absorbed by personal artistic challenges, he devoted ________ attention to prevailing trends in the art world.
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The ________ nature of medieval Islamic cartography is not readily apparent, as mapmakers would seldom acknowledge, let alone document, the fact that they received commissions from powerful patrons.
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Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop in body temperature during and after surgery is either ________ or actually protects the patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body's demand for blood and oxygen.
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Technological developments in the nineteenth century took longer to ________ than they do today: many of that century's advances were known to scientists but not to average people.
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Because they were traditionally ______________, Jain monks in sixteenth-century India particularly valued special dispensations from the royal court granting them freedom of movement.
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Twentieth-century tussles in cosmology illustrate the ________ of science, for they highlight both the human drive to explore nature and the limits that our minds inevitably impose on our understanding.
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It is incorrect to think of eighth-century Japan as (i)______. In western and central Japan, for example, there was considerable (ii)________, with many inhabitants deriving their ancestry from the Wa and Yamato peoples and at least a third being descendants of Korean immigrants unrelated to those peoples.
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While the professor was once known for expressing herself (i)________, that is no longer true. Her writing style is much more (ii)________ than it was when she started her career over 30 years ago.
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For private fossil collectors, a fossil`s value is (i)________ the object itself. For scientists, however, the value of a fossil is usually (ii)________. Most paleontological research focuses not only on the fossil itself, but also on the fossil`s location, the kind of rock it was found in, its position in the historical sequence, and how the fossil is positioned relative to other fossils.
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Documenting the lives of African Americans before Emancipation is (i)________ undertaking: even when printed accounts are (ii)________, they are often (iii)________, and details printed as fact may be merely speculative.
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In a 1931 article, Duke Ellington suggested that jazz had _________ aspect: "What we could not say openly, we expressed in music, and what we know as `jazz` is something more than just dance music."
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Aboriginal people of Victoria, Australia, neither rejected Western material culture nor demonstrated an obsession with it; in fact, Western artifacts such as pipes and handkerchiefs were appreciated for their symbolic rather than their _________ value.
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Despite dogs` talent for detecting those high-pitched whistles that are inaudible to us, dogs` ability to locate sounds is _________ compared with ours.
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The coagulated latex of the gutta-percha tree, which grows wild in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Malaya can be formed into a natural plastic that, although inelastic under ordinary conditions, becomes ___________ when placed in hot water.
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The preliminary analysis being on the whole, reassuring its confirmation would ____________ concerns about the dangers of the project.
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_______________ though individual mosquitoes appear, historically they have shown an impressive ability to travel, sometimes at stowaways in water casks and drinking vessels on ships travelling to distant continents.
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