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Though she said nothing at all, Jane thoroughly understood her mother, she was not the _____________ child that everyone thought her to be.
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As modern organizations amass more and more digital information, they need guidance on how to deal with the information surplus in a way that is more _____________ than simply increasing their storage capacity.
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Despite his secure position as a writer, Samuel Richardson adopted a strangely _____________ posture, soliciting advice on early drafts of his second novel from readers familiar with his earlier work.
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By the time they enter sixth grade, many children sleep so little during the school week that daytime drowsiness may _____________ their ability to pay attention and learn.
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Satellite data show that earthguakes are sometimes _____________ by local anomalous changes in the ionosphere over their epicenters, suggesting a way of improving earthquake forecasts.
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Amerdeep Singh makes the radical suggestion that film adaptations are entirely (i) _____________ their source texts-that is, he completely dispenses with fidelity to the source as a measure of a film's success and claims that adaptations are (ii)_____________ creations.
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The mayoral candidate's recent speech was an excoriating critique of the incumbent's performance, and while it may have (i) _____________ her ardent followers, it was decidedly (ii) _____________, hardly the (iii)_____________utterances of a woman hoping to win over a broad swath of the voting public, including those who have opposed her in the past.
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According to Waters, Cheryl Fish's otherwise brilliant analysis of Mary Seacole is _____________ by a postmodern penchant for inventive jargon and fuzzy metaphysics.
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Readers are interested in Marx' s life because of his ideas, but Sperber's book downplays his ideas to make room for his life, illustrating why intellectual biography can sometimes be a curiously _____________genre.
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The idea of traveling in order to find natural extremes and wonders was (i)_____________ in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, and many European travelers of the period were drawn to Iceland and other North Atlantic countries as places where they might find these (ii)_____________ landscapes.
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Computers triumphed at chess not by (i) _____________ human thought, but by playing like machines. The analogy with flight is (ii) _____________: as long as people tried to fly by imitating birds, they were doomed to failure; once they (iii) _____________ the paradigm of the familiar, however, they were soon flying much faster than birds
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The simplicity of Ann Hamilton' s sculpture, a single drop of water snaking its way down a vast white wall, _____________ the elaborate technical apparatus hidden beneath its surface.
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The city's traffic-planning department has been working hard to (i)_____________ drivers. Closely spaced stop lights have been added on roads into town, causing delays. Pedestrian underpasses designed to allow traffic to flow freely across major intersections have been (ii)_____________ .
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Since readily available computer programs now allow photographers to manipulate their images with the same (i) _____________ as painters, photography's claim to any inherent truth has just about evaporated. But the (ii)_____________ possibilities of photography have been present from the medium's birth. Distortions of truth not only occur mechanically (through shutter speed, for example) and in printing (as through choice of chemicals and paper) but are (iii) _____________ to the very idea of photographers being stylistically different from one another.
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By avoiding hyperbole in her definitive account of one of the most influential but controversial banks of the modern era, Hurst shows herself to be a _____________ author.
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One virtue of cornmeal as a component of the diets of laborers in early Puerto Rico was the mildness of its taste, a trait that enabled it to _____________ the strong flavors of other foods.
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The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral _____________ : when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
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Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally _____________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.
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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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Viewing people as "social atoms" that obey rather simple rules (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i) _____________. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii) _____________ movements, one person begins to follow another-in an effort to avoid collisions-and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii) _____________ .
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