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Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)__________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander' s architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)__________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii)________ photographic artifact.
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At the core of science fiction is the notion of _________ asking, "If this phenomenon continues, where will it lead?"
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Certainly, the drive to make safety a corporate priority is __________ but whether it will be enough to create the necessary change in corporate culture is another matter; organizational inertia can be a powerful force.
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Slight but ________ variations in the timing of the star' s light pulses led astronomers to deduce that it was being pulled backward and forward by three planets orbiting around it.
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The company CEO' s easygoing manner (i) ________ his (ii) ________ the job: he was in his office by dawn and hard at work till sunset.
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.A favorite tactic of George Eliot' s irresponsibly (i) ________ biographer is to hoist an alluring psychological flag concerning Eliot and then scrupulously take it down again, because the evidence will not serve to (ii) ________ . But she takes it down only after it has had its entirely (iii) ________ flutter in the breeze.
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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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The capacity for rational thought and its manifestation in language have long been assumed to distinguish human from nonhuman animals, but apes' proven ability to learn and teach sign language to other apes suggests that such a strict human-animal divide is _________
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Though initially presented in a blaze of hyperbole, the thesis is repeated even more _________ in the ensuing paragraphs.
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The writer assumes that most people feel some version of vexed ambivalence toward large corporations: _________ the convenience they deliver yet resentful of the trade-offs that they continually demand.
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The effect of the film's expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly _____________ and unrelenting.
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She is (i)_________ on the Senate floor, just as she is elsewhere: her speech is (ii)_________ with the verbal pomposity of much senatorial oratory.
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As a consequence of his need for (i)________ and his (ii)________ self-advertisement, Joseph Duveen' s career is better known than those of most of his fellow dealers of museum-quality material. The Wildensteins, for instance, were far more successful financially, but they were (iii)________ beyond measure.
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Researchers' use of charcoal particles in soil as a marker for human arrival in prehistoric North America is ________: fire was a part of the continent' s natural ecology long before humans appeared.
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Laboratory experiments testing whether memories can be purposely erased or implanted seem decidedly _________ compared to the sensational depictions of memory manipulation in movies, but such research has nevertheless yielded dramatic results.
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In the final scene of the movie, the character exhibits an almost unbelievable _________, remaining imperturbable in the face of intense and immediate physical danger.
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Though acknowledging the unstated assumptions that commentators on her paper had identified, the geologist pointed out that such assumptions were (i)________ the context of her research, and therefore their existence did not (ii)_________ her conclusions.
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When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they (i)________ a certain (ii)________ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a (iii)_________ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will.
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The book is a determinedly apolitical writer's attempt to deal with an explosive subject, and some readers will think it too ________: they will miss the impassioned engagement found in the works of her peers.
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When an organism is functioning normally, excessive fat is stored in adipose tissue. Thus, the (i)________ of such tissue may be (ii)________ the fat is diverted to other organs, such as the liver and the heart, causing serious health problems.
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