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The sleight of hand of architects whose ambition is to add subtly and seamlessly to early twentieth-century Beaux Arts buildings contradicts a first principle of historic preservation: the _____________ historical periods should be clear.
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Despite the fact that some of the company's hiring and promotion practices have been widely _____________, these practices still persist in certain divisions of the company.
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The discovery of the brain's alleged pleasure center has not resulted in any breakthroughs in the treatment of mental illness. lt may even have (i) _____________ scientists by leading them to (ii) _____________ how pleasure is encoded and generated within the brain.
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All of his previous efforts at ingratiating himself with the official were ____________ when he responded antagonistically to the official's goading.
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The writer had little interest in realism; many of his stories take place in a world either fancifully sketched out or purposefully ____________.
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Galileo Galilei's ____________ the technical details of the telescopes he built was predictable: like any self-respecting inventor, he wanted to keep his art a secret.
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The governor, clearly trying to live down a reputation for (i) ____________, has recently demonstrated an unexpected ability to be (ii) ____________ when dealing with state legislators.
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Whatever the level of the museum's past (i) ____________ American art, it pales besides its current (ii) ____________. Since opening its renovated and expanded building, the museum has relegated American paintings to hard-to-find corners of the museum. It is as if American art is (iii) ____________the overwhelmingly European narrative that dominates the permanent collection galleries.
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The plays of Alice Childress (1916-1994) often present Black women in confrontations that rearrange what qualifies as ____________ behavior: Childress's heroines, for example, often question the social protocols limiting the content of public conversations.
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The ____________ markings on some prehistoric bone and antler fragments could be accidents or the result of doodling, but may also represent a form of communication such as tally marks or even early calendars.
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The (i)____________ museums woridwide makes for (ii) ____________: by some estimates, 75 percent of species that are "discovered" each year during field expeditions are already part of a museum collection somewhere.
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Some chemists argue that although molecular motors are (i) ____________, they are (ii) ____________ by themselves; nevertheless, the chemical principles behind them might be (iii) ____________: using the same light-activated mechanism that drives certain molecular motors, researchers have developed around 100 drug-like compounds that can be switched on or off in response to light.
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The philosopher proposod that prehistoric humans were by nature autonomous and combative, establishing community life only when the cost of strife became ____________.
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The hypothesis that the moon formed from a planetary impact could account for the ____________ of water and other volatiles on the Moon since such an impact would have caused volatiles to escape into space.
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Yang Hong's studies of ancient Chinese tombs transcribe the tombs' epitaphs and inscriptions, noting whether these texts corroborate available information about the deceased's life or ancestry or ____________ it by presenting biographical material not found elsewhere.
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Woody plant responses to herbivory were always thought to be ____________; however, some scientists have reported localized responses to herbivory in certain woody plants.
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Recent work suggests that the interest among the rural population in the anticolonial political activism of the 1950s has to a large extent been (i)____________: the small percentage of rural residents who engaged in documented acts of overt political activism during that period (ii)____________ a much larger number who were strongly sympathetic but more cautiously engaged.
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Scrupulous accounting by businesses tends to be swept aside during periods when frenzied investing and speculation seem to promise huge profits, demonstrating once again that ____________, in the presence of lucre, may erode honesty.
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Magazines use superlatives to generate excitement and make stories seem worth reading, and not even the most punctilious fact-checkers at the most principled magazines can fight off all the ____________ claims.
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We might be much closer to building the next generation of observatories if competing groups of astronomers had not ____________ repeated chances to collaborate; instead, three separate projects with common goals are fighting one another for funding.
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