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When reviewing a book that advertises lying as its subject, the critic has a duty to screen the title for possible (i) _____________, and it is therefore necessary to report that The Concise Book of Lying is not concise. lf the book were making a case for deception, the mismatch might not matter: a (ii) _____________ title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for (iii) _____________. But the book is not an apology for lying; it is on the side of truth.
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Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, published in 1543, laid out the theory that Earth and the other planets go around the Sun, _____________a long-held belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
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The composition of waste from discarded electronics is quite _____________: electronic waste contains more than 1,000 different substances, including heavy metals and flame retardants.
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Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________: in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared _____________.
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The methods for composting organic waste aim to (i) _____________nature's tendency toward decay- a process unfortunately often (ii)_____________ in landfills, where organic materials are packed so tightly that they have little access to the oxygen necessary for decomposition.
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In his perceptive study of the emergence and evolution of modern urban planning in Paris, Nicholas Papayanis challenges the widespread view of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann as (i) _____________ figure in modern conceptions of the city. Although Papayanis (ii) _____________ the importance of Haussmann's accomplishments and public work projects in the creation of modern Paris, he nevertheless argues that the forms of city planning and approaches to urban space these works display are less (iii) _____________ than has hitherto been thought.
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The artist reworked certain of his etchings in order to make the scenes they depict more logical, yet, paradoxically, the pictorial space seems to become more _____________ the more realistically it is defined.
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It is true that propagandists spout misinformation to serve their own ends, but if our minds were _____________ such garbage, the lies would die out quickly.
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Just two centuries after the _____________ of Chinese algebra under the Song, even the finest mathematicians of Ming China could not fathom earlier texts.
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The senator's attempt to convince the public that he was not interested in running for a second term was as _____________ as his opponent' s attempt to disguise her intention to run against him.
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One important ocean current moves warm water north and east from the Gulf Stream. As that current moves into higher latitudes, its water cools and finally sinks. This cold, highly oxygenated water is crucial in (i)_____________ the ocean's gaseous elements, rather than allowing them to become (ii) _____________, with oxygenated tops and oxygen-free bottoms.
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Although ants and humans have _____________ lifestyles, they fight their foes for many of the same economic reasons, including access to dwelling spaces, to territory, and to food.
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Unsurprisingly, the novelist's new work has not been without its critics, drawing particulal attention from those who have _____________ the vapidity of other novels of the same genre in a number of acerbic reviews.
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While traditional Chinese historiography ostensibly described events in a neutral manner, early historians did not always _____________ tendentiousness, sometimes offering moral judgments about the historical figures they discussed.
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, science had come to be seen by the upper classes as a (i) __________, but the serious pursuit of science was generally believed to be (ii) __________ women. This created a situation in which science was (iii)__________ but at the same time beyond the reach of girls and women at anything except a superficial level.
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The type of cultural snobbery long associated with painting in the art world, whereby beloved popular works are (i) _____________ by critics, has appeared in the popular music industry. Bands with (ii) _____________ are critically (iii) _____________, whereas the more rarefied and minimally marketed performers can do no wrong in the opinion of the critics.
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Because connections made of the material are _____________to fail at high temperatures, it is particularly suited for sacrificial thermal cutoff switches; it is, of course, unsuited to applications where heat durability is needed.
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Astute and incisive, the essayist's work was nevertheless civil and polite: the essayist either had no gift of _____________ or else never felt any.
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Though extremely secretive about her own plans, she allowed her associates no such (i)_____________ and was constantly (ii) _____________ information about what they intended to do next.
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