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Although celluloid film does record traces of real light reflected by real objects, this does not (i) _________ its representational truth: the image is still prone to technical manipulation. Conversely, digital video's lack of a physical, photochemical trace does not (ii) _________ : digital video can just as well (iii) _________ the presence of real objects at a given moment in time.
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These preludes and fugues might be thought of as _________ Bach' s final works, glimpses of what he would accomplish in later pieces such as The Art of the Fugue.
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Science is so good at what it does that many people feel a (i)________ to apply it to social and political issues, yet experience shows that science may add little to or even (ii)_________ social and political questions.
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Anonymous sources have a tendency to (i)________ the information content of news stories in which they are quoted. Most of these sources are (ii)________ because they spin and leak selectively for political, personal, or institutional gain; all the balancing quotations from other sources can never remove their (iii)________.
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While offering important insights into supernova remnants, Finch's paper is often rather (i)________: it is (ii)________ unexplained concepts and details.
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The law student found traditional legal reference works unhelpful, since such works assume from the reader a considerable familiarity with the intricacies of contract law, an assumption that was, in his case at least, ________.
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Pre-Columbian peoples had a significant impact on Amazonian forest diversity; at least 8,000 years ago, they must have begun domesticating plants recently found to be _________ around sites once occupied by humans.
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"revolutionary" and "unique" are words that have become________ : every century in human history is described as unique, and every year, somewhere in the world, some event is characterized as revolutionary.
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Climbing mountains in search of an awe-inspiring view can be (i)________ experience. Too often, the peak seems forever out of reach, always disappearing over the next crest. It's a feeling that (ii)________ physicists, who have spent much of the last century trudging up a seemingly endless slope in search of truly cosmic vistas. It is proving (iii)________ climb.
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Although automated agricultural technology boosts yields and profits, its high degree of prescriptiveness diminishes the role of individual farmers by making their ________ almost irrelevant.
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Asteroids of diameter less than 100 km never melted, but asteroids with larger diameters did so and became _________ with the heavier Fe-Ni material forming the core and the silicates forming the crust.
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The growth of kelp in the kelp bed communities of the North Pacific Ocean is _________ sea otters: the otters prey on kelp-eating sea urchins, keeping the urchin population in check.
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In her early years as a theater critic, Willa Cather was ________, veering between ecstatic raves and brutal takedowns.
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A core assumption of evolutionary biology is that adaptation is always ________: organisms adapt to their environment, never vice versa.
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The theory that the young Mercury collided with another planet appears ________ given Mercury' s abundance of volatile elements: a collision would have boiled such elements away.
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Although Wanda Coleman' s sonnets sometimes employ ________ word choices, they aptly bring to the fore a distinctly modern anxiety.
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Bone is a physiologically ________ tissue: it can change size and shape to meet the body' s needs during the various stages of an animal' s life.
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Literary fiction is (i)________ genre fiction. Why? Because its plots are less predictable, its characters deeper, its reality (ii)_________ actual reality. That, at least, is the commonly held view, shared even by readers, and writers, of genre fiction-or so it appears from their readiness to (iii)________ their tastes. But many new "serious" novels are just as constrained by their genre as any multivolume fantasy epic or cheap romance.
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Among historians, conjecture and grand vision have given way to (i) ________ ,an intensified focus on ever smaller units of time and space, and a (ii)________ to build analytical frames that can fully articulate the broad sweep of history.
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The guarantee of academic freedom to professors is intended to encourage intellectual independence. But so long as faculty members receive training in a specific academic discipline and are appointed to positions defined by discipline, and so long as colleges and universities are organized by departments that (i)_______ long-standing disciplinary traditions, academic freedom will also (ii)________ unique discipline-specific expectations. Yet the right to (iii)_______ disciplinary paradigms is also fundamental to academic freedom.
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