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Because it was exposed by a _____________ fracture, the rock's structure could be seen free of weathering or lichen growth.
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Writing accessories such as letter openers, pen trays, and memorandum pads became tremendously popular during the Victorian era, and by far the most ubiquitous of such _____________ was the letter box.
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While Pompeian houses vary in their size, ground plan, and decorative schemes, they do tend to _____________ certain consistent design motivations： their owners all seem to have aimed toward creating a certain kind of domestic space.
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In a sharp blow to his reputation as (i) _____________ leader, the evidence that the mayor has recently been involved in malfeasance seems to be (ii) _____________.
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By using (i) _____________ prose throughout, the contributors to this anthology have been able to make their subject seem (ii) _____________ in the extreme—of concern only to one another.
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The obsidian found across the Pungaere-Upokorau area in New Zealand has previously been thought to come from two distinct sites (Pungaere and Waiare), but considering that the visual characteristics and chemical composition of the obsidian in the area are so (i) _____________, there is no reason to continue regarding Waiare as (ii) _____________ source, especially in view of the fact that finds of obsidian near Waiare settlement and in the Waiare Stream are (iii) _____________.
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Motorcycle riders in London have discovered an ingenious, albeit _____________ way of parking illegally without getting a ticket.
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The writer's expression of _____________ sentiments in fluid, vigorous prose is a strange blending of the high and the low—like an opera performed by sloppily dressed, unkempt musicians.
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California's building codes are more _____________ than those elsewhere in the United States to ensure that structures are capable of protecting people from frequent seismic events.
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Jean Kimmel and Emily Hoffman argue for expanding the definition of child-care subsidies to include all programs that _____________ or otherwise offset expenses for nonparental child care.
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Nociception is the process of detection and processing of a noxious stimulus by the nervous system; however, nociception is not ____________ pain, as the former is not necessarily associated with a negative emotional response or feeling.
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The president's cordial greeting may seem to be a small gesture of friendliness, but it is not without ______________ in the heretofore stilted atmosphere of the society's meetings.
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Fears that the recent sharp rise in oil prices is an indication that oil is running out appear to be (i)____________. The Middle East still contains vast oil supplies. Furthermore, even if new oil finds elsewhere have been (ii)____________ than in the past, substantial quantities of oil can be profitably stripped from tar and shale.
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Although economics emerged as a discipline in Great Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century, it has taken two centuries to become (i)____________ field of study: among early economists, intuition and opinion (ii)____________ facts and figures in economic thought, but the teaching of economics today is dominated by complex algorithms and mathematical models.
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The nineteenth-century periodical The Farmer's Wife positioned the farm woman as a consumer, as evidenced by its echoing the (i)____________ sensibilities of consumer-oriented magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, but in reality the farm woman was often engaged in (ii)____________ as much as in consumption, planting and harvesting alongside other workers in the field.
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The notion that whales have any sort of culture is (i)____________ most social scientists, who (ii)____________ the idea that animals—even the great apes, whose social structure is closest to that of humans—have culture. Clearly whales do not produce art of literature. But patient observation of whales by biologists over many years has begun to reveal behaviors that can only have been (iii)____________ other whales, rather than being instinctual. And that, say the biologists, constitutes culture.
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Advertising's role in popular music culture has been redefined: instead of a last resort for the creation and distribution of popular music, advertising now functions as a ___________ of music that might otherwise go unheard.
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The bird-watchers' ________________ distinguishing personal interpretations from factual observations was a liability in their stated goal of obtaining objective information about the everyday behavior of ravens.
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Beauford Delano's dynamic depictions of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, ______________ the energy of the city, while the equally captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years of 1953 to 1979 demonstrate his sustained exploration of color.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction, since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____________ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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