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Divided into separate essays on different aspects of Jacques-Louis David's late career, Bordes' catalog(i)_____________a great deal of knowledge, never providing a full introduction to the painter's life or to the period in which he lived. Yet while the book may (ii)_____________the casual reader, cognoscenti will delight in the wonderfully complete detail on each picture, not to mention the caustic little jabs at colleaques that Bordes occasionally delivers. The world of David scholarship, as befits its subject, is not a (iii)_____________place.
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The society of the ancient Moche of northern Peru was_____________one: it was ruled by local lords who were overseen by an elite composed of administrative and religious authorities.
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Automated text-matching and plagiarism-detection services must be_____________human expertise: machines alone cannot detect plagiarism of ideas, that is, expressing someone else's idea in one's own words.
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Some experts now feel that exercise should not be regarded as_____________ other treatments for depression: they believe that exercise can itself serve as an appropriate remedy for some forms of the mood disorder.
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One of the most appealing things about Sloterdijk's philosophy is his willingness to be_____________; he does not attempt to anticipate and to refute all possible objections.
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The 1938 "War of the Worlds" fiasco, in which millions of people supposedly believed that a fictional radio program about a Martian invasion was true, is held up as an example of the(i)_____________of the American public. While Americans are portrayed as (ii)_____________in this version of the story, research reveals that most listeners knew the program was fictional.
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The world we inhabit is extremely rich in detail and may be very complex. (i)_____________when solving a problem or executing a task, (ii)_____________
aspects of the reality are (iii)_____________: for instance, when one is planning a flight, the physical attributes of the aircraft, such as color or the exact shape and size, are irrelevant and can be ignored.
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Whether the director's action was pusillanimous or merely _____________, the effect was the same: many board members argued against continuing to entrust leadership to a person who was perceived as unwilling to take risks.
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Hamlin Garland has tried to appeal to a wider audience by moving away from the gritty realism of his early writings, which often advanced populist political causes, and toward _____________mainstream fiction.
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O' Brien solicited potential contributors to his project by detailing how the glory of its success would_____________all who were associated with it.
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The priorities at astronomical observatories changed dramatically in the period, A major reason was the(i) _____________government funding for solar system research: the national government, eager to bolster the sense that the country was a supportive place for scientists, made a concerted effort to (ii)_____________studies of the moon, the planets, and near space.
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In 1926 Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion with the introduction of the little black dress, or LBD, a garment that became so culturally(i)_____________that today many women own at least one. Although in recent years the LBD's very(ii)_____________has seen it relegated to the high-fashion margins,(iii)_____________as too safe, it now seems to be making a comeback.
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A number of animals appear to have the capacity for thinking about certain situations and showing flexible, adaptive behavior, whereas others appear to behave_____________, with little or no thought at all.
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While traditional Chinese historiography ostensibly described events in a neutral manner, early historians did not always_____________ tendentiousness, sometimes offering moral judgments about the historical figures they discussed.
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At present, education is the more cherished as it is the more_____________; learning how to do something, rather than learning how to be someone, particularly someone human, is in vogue.
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One perverse twist that has(i) _____________the difficulty of understanding the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees is that the bees do not just die-they fly off in every direction from the hive, then die alone and dispersed. That makes large numbers of bee autopsies (ii)_____________.
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There is something seductive about(i)_____________judgments in the arts.When a critic peremptorily announces that Titian' s canvases are the greatest ever painted or that Mondrian and Malevich are the only truly radical artists of the twentieth century, we enjoy seeing all the confusions of taste swept aside, even though we may(ii)_____________ reservations about the (iii)_____________nature of these opinions.
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Recently there has been a push for machines to identify us not by passwords but by things like tokens and key cards, or by scanning our eyes, voices, or fingerprints, and yet the use of passwords continues to_____________.
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Whatever truth the terse, witty, instructive saying known as an apothegm points toward is by definition always obscured, and anyone who regards its meaning as (i)_____________not only misreads it but also mistakes its very nature, An apothegm's inscrutability allows a tantalizing glimpse of wisdom that lies beyond our ability to (ii)_____________
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Leaders within the Native American culture known as Fort Ancient differed from those of the neighboring Mississippian groups, whose authority was often_____________: indeed,one expert has described the Fort Ancient society as intensely egalitarian.
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