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In our solar system, Earth is the most ________ of the rocky, or terrestrial, planets, so when first searching beyond the solar system, scientists were not accustomed to planets of similar composition but many times the mass.
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The actor was quick to warn new members of the cast that the director's cherubic countenance belied ________ temperament.
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Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was just nineteen years old when Futurism erupted, but she later heeded that violent, belligerent art movement' s call in the (i)________ of her broad-shouldered suits, the rawness of her furs and embroidery, and her (ii)________ attitude, which her contemporaries described as "hard chic," toward any simpering or mincing in fashion.
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For any art lover who has sat through a high-stakes auction, where artworks often are applauded for their (i)________, there is something undeniably (ii)________ about encouraging more people to see (iii)________ rather than dollar signs, when they look at paintings on museum walls.
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The author' s comparisons of Sontag' s work to that of Walter Benjamin are _________: while the former is admittedly an influential figure, the latter is undoubtedly one of the most important critics of his era.
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Although anecdotes about her abound, it is difficult to verify facts about al-Khansa' —like many early poetic figures, she may well be a composite figure, her corpus _________ the works of many women poets.
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Native American art is not a (i)________ enterprise: it reflects differences among artists' personal, community, and tribal experience. As Native American artists continue to create the art that is valid for them, however, the (ii)________ in Native American art between traditional and modern styles (primarily promulgated by non-Native American critics) has become outmoded. There is heightened recognition that placing Native American art in these two opposing categories has had a (iii)________ effect on both artists and viewers.
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The geometry student struggled with the request to demonstrate the ________ proposition, feeling that, since opposite angles were self-evidently equal, there was no need for a proof.
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Given the extraordinary ________ of its arguments, it is surprising that the central thesis of the book can be stated so simply.
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In the realm of science and mathematics, ambiguity is generally seen as something that arises from erroneous understanding and must be overcome, yet ambiguity has often ________ developments in science and mathematics.
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During the Second World War, the substantial energy that industrial employers spent convincing workers to wear mandated safe attire suggests that compliance could not be _________
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Azarenka' s descriptions are not ________: they grow organically from the themes that animate her writing.
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An earlier generation of writers of historical novels, less ________ than today' s writers about the need to distinguish fact from fiction, were accordingly careful to point out exactly what was invented in their works.
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Unlike news reports, theater isn' t expected to stick to the facts. Built on a sandy foundation of make-believe and (i)________, the form, by nature, traffics in (ii)________. Good documentary drama exploits its inherent paradox: creating artifice from verbatim texts, it uncovers truths by playing on the tension between what' s real and what' s (iii)________.
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The article has been abridged for presentation to a nonspecialist audience, and the ________ by which this has been accomplished can be frustrating for any reader trying to reconstruct the argument in detail.
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Having seen her extravagant predictions of some years ago ________ by events, she is now more cautious: her current predictions are refreshingly free of hyperbole.
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A long-running philosophical debate in the field of stratigraphy—the study of sequences of sedimentary rocks—is whether the sedimentary record represents mainly (i)________ happenings (e.g., waves and tides) or their opposite, (ii)________ events (e.g., hurricanes and flash floods).
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Although Dostoyevsky was not the (i)________ portrayed by some biographers, at least implicitly guilty of the terrible crimes he depicted in his novels, he was notoriously (ii)________. Indeed, his attitude toward people who questioned him about his work was anything but friendly. No such problems bother students of Chekhov. On the contrary, it is difficult to think of a writer of equal fame and importance who, on close inspection, proves to be such a (iii)________ human being.
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Critics have universally recognized Toni Morrison for ________ the limited perspectives of mainstream United States history by reclaiming the narratives of African American history, particularly from a female point of view.
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The difficulty of understanding subtle behavioral cues in dolphins is undisputed, but this does not obviate the need for the evidentiary foundation of any study of dolphin behavior to be ________.
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