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In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite _____________.
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Whereas the original editor had sacrificed clarity for brevity and her successor had been too _____________, the new editor took an intermediate approach, explicit as to the purport of each document and not too ambitious in detail.
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Medieval cathedrals still stand as marvels of architecture, but as far as modern science is concerned, medieval physics and chemistry are simply irrelevant, at best a dead end, at worst the very _________ of what science is supposed to be.
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The company's steering committee, reluctant to be held to any specific commitments, released a strategic plan that was deliberately ___________.
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With respect to environmental issues, most legal scholarship tends to envision politics as the pursuit of already fixed interests, a view that (i)________ the ability of political communities to (ii)________ their values and their interests through the process of democratic deliberation.
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Except for a few passages in the biography in which the subject's flaws are (i)________, the author's treatment of her subjects is (ii)________.
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Not only is the field of behavioral genetics strewn with (i)________ findings, but even among those findings that have managed to survive, many have turned out to be (ii)________ a very restricted class of cases.
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The intense interest in probing the Martian soil for water is no mere (i)________ preoccupation. Beyond solving the mystery of where Mars's surface water went, scientists are simply being (ii)________. Human exploration or even settlement of Mars is being considered as a real possibility, and it certainly will not be cost-effective to (iii)________ water.
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Although many aspects of the hippie movement of the 1960s seemed like superficial posturing, many hippies were not without a great deal of ___________.
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Duke Ellington managed his career with extreme deliberateness: nothing was _________, and even apparent compromises or trade-offs were actually artful accommodations leading to eventual triumphs.
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Most of the drugs used to treat celiac disease that are now in development would not eliminate the need for a gluten-free diet but would help __________ symptoms when some gluten is unintentionally ingested.
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In hindsight, it is easy to say that the geological evidence for ice ages was _____________ and to wonder why such periods in the Earth's past were not recognized earlier.
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Though he said nothing, Martin thoroughly understood his mother, he was far from being so ________ as everyone thought him.
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It is ironic that the scientist's work was criticized recently for its _________ research methodology, since other researchers have argued for years that this same methodology was based absolutely on impeccable logic.
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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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Prose (i)________ the notion that, as a patron of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim was (ii)________; Guggenheim, Prose argues, simply had limited funds to bestow on the many artists and writers who depended on her.
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Scientists have devised several techniques for improving crop plants; recombinant genetic technology is just the latest and most (i)________ of them. By contrast, another (ii)________ method—bombarding seeds with radiation in the hope of producing (iii)________ mutations—prompted no questions about the safety of the countless crops it produced.
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According to Merrin, many law school curricula are (i)________ the challenge of fostering an adequate ethical understanding among their students. By focusing exclusively on what lawyers can or cannot get away with, core legal ethics courses often inadvertently promote a (ii)________ ethics, thus creating an (iii)________ audience for efforts to instil an appropriately broad grasp of the ethical challenges lawyers face.
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Tender yet never ________, the memoir engages the reader without resorting to cliches.
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The 1901 steel negotiations featured Morgan in his most famously __________ mode: knocking heads together, barking out prices for properties, and forcing titans to truckle to his will.
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