|
While lunar geology may appear to be a relatively _____________ area of planetary science, it is important to realize that the Moon's surface and interior retain records that shed light on the histories of all terrestrial planets.
|
|
Since the deficit predicament is fundamentally a long-term problem, the legislature's _____________ short-term approaches has actually compounded the difficulty in each succeeding year, eroding the state's credit rating in the process.
|
|
For a philosopher of the analytic tradition, Williams' approach is somewhat (i)_____________ . Unlike most analytic philosophers, Williams has not kept himself (ii)_____________ the rest of the humanities; in fact, he wishes to address colleagues in other fields in terms that will make sense to them. In particular, he objects to the (iii) _____________ character of analytic philosophy: the amount it tries to accomplish by conceptual analysis and a priori argument alone. Williams is convinced that philosophy must use history, including historical imagination, to understand and defend values of any kind.
|
|
Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly _____________.
|
|
Political debates supposedly exist to inform viewers, who watch them with open minds to learn about the candidates and decide how to vote. Of course, given the (i)_____________ that routinely permeates most debates, it is hard to (ii)_____________ that they fulfill their purpose.
|
|
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.
|
|
Self-driving cars appear in countless science-fiction movies; indeed, in that context they are so _____________ that they do not get noticed.
|
|
Like his fellow _____________ covering the campaign tour, who rarely had the luxury of spending more than one night in one place, Tony had his bags packed well before the evening fund-raiser.
|
|
One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____________: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.
|
|
Letters present an awkward stumbling block to those who take a high line about literature as a custodian of moral values. The letters of accomplished poets and novelists are-as often as not-about drinking and infidelity, about sponging and wasting time. Consequently, one's (i)_____________ the writer as (ii)_____________ can often come in for a rude shock on contemplation of the writer's correspondence: the soul that composed the poems and the self that wrote the letters can seem (iii)_____________.
|
|
Those familiar with the insular conditions that once prevailed in Russia may be surprised by the _____________of eighteenth-century Russian composer Natalia Kurakina, who translated novels from French into ltalian and composed songs in both languages.
|
|
Because we participate in the dynamics of ecosystems as we restore them, restoration practice is in essence antithetical to the idea of _____________ wilderness.
|
|
For millennia, remembering was hard and costly, and people had to choose deliberately what should be remembered, allowing most things to be forgotten. The digital age has brought about an (i) _____________ of the balance of remembering and forgetting. Committing information to digital memory has become (ii) _____________.
|
|
When reviewing a book that advertises lying as its subject, the critic has a duty to screen the title for possible (i) _____________, and it is therefore necessary to report that The Concise Book of Lying is not concise. lf the book were making a case for deception, the mismatch might not matter: a (ii) _____________ title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for (iii) _____________. But the book is not an apology for lying; it is on the side of truth.
|
|
Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, published in 1543, laid out the theory that Earth and the other planets go around the Sun, _____________a long-held belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
|
|
The composition of waste from discarded electronics is quite _____________: electronic waste contains more than 1,000 different substances, including heavy metals and flame retardants.
|
|
Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________: in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
|
|
The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared _____________.
|
|
The methods for composting organic waste aim to (i) _____________nature's tendency toward decay- a process unfortunately often (ii)_____________ in landfills, where organic materials are packed so tightly that they have little access to the oxygen necessary for decomposition.
|
|
In his perceptive study of the emergence and evolution of modern urban planning in Paris, Nicholas Papayanis challenges the widespread view of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann as (i) _____________ figure in modern conceptions of the city. Although Papayanis (ii) _____________ the importance of Haussmann's accomplishments and public work projects in the creation of modern Paris, he nevertheless argues that the forms of city planning and approaches to urban space these works display are less (iii) _____________ than has hitherto been thought.
|
