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Although Dostoyevsky was not the (i)________ portrayed by some biographers, at least implicitly guilty of the terrible crimes he depicted in his novels, he was notoriously (ii)________. Indeed, his attitude toward people who questioned him about his work was anything but friendly. No such problems bother students of Chekhov. On the contrary, it is difficult to think of a writer of equal fame and importance who, on close inspection, proves to be such a (iii)________ human being.
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That there were a dozen complex debates on the lawyer' s mind at any given moment did not (i)________ his ability to perform physical work; on the contrary, he labored more vigorously when simultaneously engaged in such (ii)________ forensic exercises.
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In writing about environmental issues, the author takes on some special artistic challenges. It is hard to write a good novel that takes a strong stand on a social issue, although there are a few novelists, Zola and Norris for example, who do manage to (i)________ the often circumscribing effects of (ii)________.
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Some of the writers whose interviews with the Paris Review are included in this volume were caught in the final years of their lives, and these interviews thus lend ________ mood to the collection.
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Biographer John Richardson cautions that Picasso' s relationship with Surrealism is easily (i)________. He stresses that, unlike the Surrealists' , Picasso' s art was always rooted in some concrete reality, no matter how unreal the imagery may seem; even his most (ii)________ pictures are representations of the people in his life.
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While many tools can automatically locate patterns in large data sets, they cannot yet distinguish truly significant patterns from those that are (i)________. Thus statisticians, who by virtue of their training are (ii)_________ identifying (iii)________ interpretations of patterns in data, must increasingly bear the burden of scrutinizing data and challenging conclusions based on statistical flukes.
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The best argument in favor of one space after a period over two is ________ one: one space is simpler, cleaner, and more visually pleasing.
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Wald' s decision to tell Rosetta Tharpe' s story to a wider audience in Shout, Sister, Shout! (i)________ the rigor of the book' s scholarship or the acuity of its theory. The scholarly quality of the work is (ii)_________ on every page, and yet it is not a dry, specialist academic tome.
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In ancient China, tin-rich ores were not as (i)_________ as copper-rich ores, and bronze—an alloy of copper and tin—was (ii)_________ material, as tin frequently had to be transported over large distances. As a result, unalloyed copper was probably used whenever (iii)________, since the metals used for farming and domestic purposes did not need to be as strong as the metals used for hunting and fighting.
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It can be extremely difficult to uncover direct evidence of conspiracies, given that such activities are by their very nature ________.
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In clinical research into new treatments or the causal factors of diseases, randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trials are seen as (i)________ but, given their (ii)________ often are not feasible.
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Seigel has written an important and invaluable book on the history of Western ideas of the self, showing a genuine (i)________ in analyzing philosophical views of often daunting intricacy. Though a historian by profession, he keeps to a minimum his excursions into the (ii)________ of ideas, recognizing that great minds often (iii)________ the preconceptions of their age.
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She was a star adored by directors for her ________ : there was no volatile temperament; there were no tantrums.
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The poem is not nearly as (i)________ as it has often been said to be. Granted, it would be (ii)________ to claim that the poem is self-contained or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But the poem is more self-contained than it appears when you read only fragments of it, and its allusions are often (iii)________ by their contexts or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts.
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Although technically their members were hunter-gatherers, many early Native California communities exhibited traits more typically associated with well-developed agrarian societies and, therefore, are often presented in the ethnographic literature as ________.
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Archaeopteryx had feathers on its hind limbs that helped stabilize it and acted as air brakes, allowing the otherwise _________ creature to turn more adeptly and fly steadily.
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Although celluloid film does record traces of real light reflected by real objects, this does not (i) _________ its representational truth: the image is still prone to technical manipulation. Conversely, digital video's lack of a physical, photochemical trace does not (ii) _________ : digital video can just as well (iii) _________ the presence of real objects at a given moment in time.
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These preludes and fugues might be thought of as _________ Bach' s final works, glimpses of what he would accomplish in later pieces such as The Art of the Fugue.
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Science is so good at what it does that many people feel a (i)________ to apply it to social and political issues, yet experience shows that science may add little to or even (ii)_________ social and political questions.
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Anonymous sources have a tendency to (i)________ the information content of news stories in which they are quoted. Most of these sources are (ii)________ because they spin and leak selectively for political, personal, or institutional gain; all the balancing quotations from other sources can never remove their (iii)________.
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