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Until recently superhero comics were seen as irredeemably (i)_______; they were widely disparaged for being so (ii)_______ in conception and execution, and anyone who was a fan was given plenty of reasons to be (iii)_______.
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The lyrics of this flavorless, inoffensive musical are (i)_______: “How can it be/It must be true/This thing I feel/I know it's you," one character sings. The melodies are pleasant but just as (ii)_______
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Although initially it may be difficult to discern the essay's message of peace and conciliation, a close reading reveals its essentially ________ nature.
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Paradoxically, it is Sebald' s isolating, melancholy inwardness that creates the (i)_______ between narrator and reader that is the hallmark of his writing. The more Sebald insists on his (ii)_______, the more powerfully he triggers a compensatory attentiveness, and even solicitude, in his reader. But as with any single tone maintained with such undeviating consistency, sooner or later the problem of (iii)_______ arises: the sameness of his music can weary all but the most similarly predisposed listener.
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Concerned to upend the standard top-down approach to game design, Flanagan calls on game designers to _______ the typical model with one that is less hierarchical.
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Hugh Trevor-Roper' s series of essays on the Puritan Revolution are considered to be the ________ of the genre: though these essays have exerted a welcome influence on the work of many subsequent historians, their quality has never been equaled.
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Although most of her colleagues ________ that the science of ecology can be practiced without taking a stand on environmental issues, the scientist insists that certain ecological studies can be undertaken without adopting any particular position on such issues.
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Lions are idiosyncratic animals that exhibit a remarkably wide range of behaviors, resisting our attempts to _______ them.
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Selling a product with no known or even _______ substitute and with an ever-growing demand for it seems as if it would be quite lucrative, but in fact the three biggest private-sector water companies in the world are eager to get out of the business.
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Yoshiko Yamaguchi was a remarkably _______ public figure: she was not only an actress but also a journalist, a prominent politician in the Japanese parliament, and the wife of a diplomat.
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There is no natural environment on Earth more _______ than a virgin rain forest: a plethora of rain forest species have developed remarkably sophisticated strategies to ensure that their voices are heard.
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High self-esteem has recently assumed a somewhat (i)_______ status in social psychology. On the one hand, high self-esteem is believed to confer a wide variety of adaptive and affective benefits; on the other, positive self-views have been linked to a number of intrapersonal and interpersonal strategies than can reasonably be described as (ii)________.
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Ironically, contemporary critics who celebrate the Victorian novel for its intellectual depth describe the (i)_______ effects of newer media—film, television, digital technology—in precisely the same terms that earlier critics had used to (ii)_______ the novel itself: as piecemeal entertainments that (iii)_______ mental effort on the part of the consumer.
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Biographies tumble off the presses in profusion these days, a (i)_______ linked, for better or worse, to the current obsession with celebrity. Some critics complain that biographers too often (ii)_______ the messy reality of a life, and it' s true that lesser authors simply glorify or, more often, vilify their subjects. But good biographers are far more respectful of (iii)_______: the best see not one monolithic truth about a person but many overlapping truths.
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The most pervasive myth about mathematics is that the logical structure of mathematics is _______, that logic captures the essence of the subject.
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According to Asian-American artist Mia Locks, although many people think of art as (i)_______, artists do not (ii)_______ social life: they contribute to it through a range of means and methodologies, materials and forms.
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The notion of popular science or of the public understanding of science is very much a concern in today' s world, where we can see (i)_______ between science and nonscience. But in the nineteenth century, there was still an enviable mixing and cross-fertilization between seemingly (ii)_______ subjects, and there was no (iii)________ what counted as science, let alone how a public understanding might differ from any other sort of understanding.
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Biologist Catherine Graham, studying toucans in Mexico, predicted that because toucans prefer relatively large forest patches and feed on fruit, they would fly more often to (i)_______ patches and to patches with abundant fruit resources than to small patches or those that had (ii)_______ fruit resources.
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Once photographs depicting important family events such as vacations or weddings are assembled and presented in a family album, the collection of photographs is treated as (i)________ record of events; but what we (ii)________ to (iii)________ is the active selection process that led to the making of the album.
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The museum' s display of bandolier bags made by Ojibwa artists of the Mille Lacs community reinforces the idea that this community' s culture is _______ one: early twentieth-century bandolier bags are displayed alongside others made recently.
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