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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.
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Viewing people as "social atoms" that obey rather simple rules (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i) _____________. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii) _____________ movements, one person begins to follow another-in an effort to avoid collisions-and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii) _____________ .
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Until recently superhero comics were seen as irredeemably (i) _____________; they were widely disparaged for being so (ii) _____________ in conception and execution, and anyone who was a fan was given plentyof reasons to be (iii) _____________.
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The high seriousness of St. Aubyn's novel is not at all superficial; in fact, it is _____________ the novel's ferociously comic vision.
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Despite the long history of data collection on species diversity, there is a _____________ of usable data.
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The idea that Antarctica's subglacial lakes are _____________ has changed radically thanks to repeat-pass satellite altimetry technology, which has found evidence of water transfer between lakes at distances of more than 200 kilometers.
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Whatever the level of the museum's past (i) _____________ American art, it pales beside 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 news that compatibility issues with the electronic device had been resolved was received with _____________ by analysts and consumers, since they assumed that newer technologies would soon make the device obsolete.
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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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