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Each memoir must (i)___________ by making an implicit claim that the life of its author is somehow (ii)_________. Thus, if the reader begins to experience a memoir as too (iii)_________, the memoir has lost its reason for being.
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If it is wrong to justify human selfishness on the basis of the alleged selfishness of nature, then it is equally mistaken to espouse ____________ merely because some animals happily assist each other.
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Since scientific truths must be discovered, and since many, probably most, are far from (i)____________, futile investigations are (ii)____________. Thus, the path to the truth is decidedly a (iii)____________ one.
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Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not ____________ interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
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Given the important role that apologies can play in human relations and the almost daily news reports of the latest celebrity or political apology, the ____________ of empirical research on the subject is surprising.
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The photocopier, widely adopted in the 1960s, became not merely a vehicle for copying but one for publishing in ____________ manner, so that ideas could be circulated without interference from potential censors.
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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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There's ______________ throughout the Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple that, while hardly true to the harrowing bleakness of the early chapters of Alice Walker's novel, does bring to mind the enjoyable hokey cinematic lavishness of the film version.
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The myth of the scientific method as a neat progression from hypothesis to experiment to conclusion is dispelled once you enter a lab and observe the _____________ process by which researchers actually make discoveries.
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The television network seems to regard its longest-running comedy show as _____________, keeping it in the schedule even as the humor it churns out is notoriously hit-or-miss.
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Despite its title and the recipes it provides, the main purpose of The Insect Cookbook is not (i) ________. Instead, the book seeks to (ii) _____________of entomophagy. i.e., the consumption of insects as food: it is composed of interviews with chiefs, farmers, politicians, and United Nations figures, all of whom attempt to (iii) ________ the custom of eating insects.
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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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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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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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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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Tender yet never ________, the memoir engages the reader without resorting to cliches.
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Researchers concluded that although the success of pearl millet crops in the region varied with seasonal climatic conditions, cultivation remains ____________ because of pearl millet's predisposition to perform under stressful growing conditions, including drought.
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The scholars' hypothesis challenges the scope of human psychological and behavioral universals, but does not dispense with them entirely: the team remains confident that displays of pride, for instance, are _____________.
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The folktale is perhaps the most _____________ form of literature: a story that everyone is free to tell and embellish because it belongs to no one in particular.
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Although evolutionary psychologists do not seem quite as imperialist in their intellectual ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the 1970s, they tend, in some critics' view, to be no less _____________ in their claims.
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