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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with _____________ wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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It is curious that the same industrialists who are increasingly _____________ about the economy's prospects are no cheerier about their own firm's outlook than they were a year ago.
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Reports of the destruction of island vegetation by human-introduced herbivores, such as goats and rabbits, are so (i) _____________ that there can be no reason to (ii) _____________ .
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The philosopher held that art must perform a paradoxical task, simultaneously extricating itself from the (i)_____________ even while (ii) _____________ the realities of ordinary experience.
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Lebrecht recounts many entertaining scandals, (i) _____________ himself on some points in deference to the laws of libel. His anecdotes seem (ii) _____________, but when carefully scrutinized, their accuracy is less than impressive. What rings false is his picture of the impresarios as unerring Machiavellian schemers-villains who never (iii) _____________in their efforts to pile up a fortune and ruin the world of music, However, my experience in the concert and recording world suggests that there is more bumbling than sinister plotting.
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Biographies can be _____________ contrivances, often too long and too detailed for their own good.
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Even if he wants to serve again-and given his obvious love for the job, the assumption among insiders is that he is more likely to stay than go—there is at least one ___________ his serving another term.
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n her biography of literary critic Diana Trilling, Natalie Robins exhibits a (i)__________ the intellectual passions and fierce arguments that consumed Trilling and her coterie: Robin's treatment of Trilling' s positions is generally (ii)__________ , never providing much in the way of real analysis or opinion.
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Until recently, historians of science treated fundamental research as (i)__________ pure science — that is both were taken to refer to scientific investigations (ii)__________technological and/or commercial objectives. Now, however, historians have realized that in the mid-twentieth century the phrase "fundamental research" was sometimes (iii)__________ industrial scientists, who applied the phrase to their own work in order to distinguish it from that of applied scientists and thus elevate their status.
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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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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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Because we participate in the dynamics of ecosystems as we restore them, restoration practice is in essence antithetical to the idea of __________ wilderness.
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In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, not only was great wealth (i)__________, but even the idea that the accumulation of great riches was the point of a working life seemed (ii) __________
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Those whose professional lives spanned the rise of the feminist movement from the 1970s onward and who witnessed significant advances in gender equality in the workplace over the intervening four decades will not be (i)__________ Saval' s account of the (ii)__________ female employees. However, the (iii)__________ women advancing in the workplace can seem astonishing to those who did not witness it firsthand.
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Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)__________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander' s architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)__________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii)________ photographic artifact.
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At the core of science fiction is the notion of _________ asking, "If this phenomenon continues, where will it lead?"
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Certainly, the drive to make safety a corporate priority is __________ but whether it will be enough to create the necessary change in corporate culture is another matter; organizational inertia can be a powerful force.
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Slight but ________ variations in the timing of the star' s light pulses led astronomers to deduce that it was being pulled backward and forward by three planets orbiting around it.
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The company CEO' s easygoing manner (i) ________ his (ii) ________ the job: he was in his office by dawn and hard at work till sunset.
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.A favorite tactic of George Eliot' s irresponsibly (i) ________ biographer is to hoist an alluring psychological flag concerning Eliot and then scrupulously take it down again, because the evidence will not serve to (ii) ________ . But she takes it down only after it has had its entirely (iii) ________ flutter in the breeze.
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