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Because Earth' s atmosphere distorts astronomical observations, whatever tends to _______ its influence is dismaying to the astronomer.
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The author' s new novel is everything that her first was not: obvious and (i)________ rather than understated and subtly shaded. Instead of quietly revealing themselves through tiny, unexpected gestures, the characters are forced to make (ii)________ statements that announce exactly what they are thinking and serve primarily to underscore the author' s sociological points. There are occasional glimpses of the (iii)________ and emotional wisdom so lavishly demonstrated in the author' s previous novel-gifts, the reader hopes, that will be more fruitfully employed in her next.
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An academic with a questionable record in either teaching, administration, or research may still be well regarded at many schools, but simultaneous failure in all three areas normally results in ________ by superiors.
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In theory, when water freezes, ice crystals grow only from pure water, while any impurities are ________ the ice structure and are eventually swept away.
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Maddox presents a more (i)________ view of Franklin than the stereotyped rendering of her as the martyr whose data were stolen. By focusing substantial attention on Franklin' s achievements working on the molecular structure of coal and on virus research, Maddox (ii)_______ reducing Franklin' s legacy to her involvement in the (admittedly central) scientific story of DNA.
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Curry did not necessarily agree with the criticisms about her research paper, but rather than ________ them, as many scientists might have done, she began to engage with the critics.
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The public memorial in Pretoria' s Freedom Park presents ________ view of South Africa' s history, with the names on it representing all those who died in conflicts that contributed to the shaping of the country.
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As tough as it looks, the Chihuahuan Desert is a ________ place: although few humans have been here, their footsteps have fallen heavily in the desert.
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.Especially when poorly organized, alliances among nations can send messages that (i)________ either credible threats or credible assurances, thus making stable coercive diplomacy with enemies (short of war) (ii)________.
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The use of temperature records for the period from 1880 to 1899 as the favored baseline for measuring global warming is ________ because the 1880s were particularly cold after the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano.
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Using elaborate costumes and lighting, dancer Loie Fuller transformed herself multiple times during a performance, thereby emphasizing the ________ of character.
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Why Zona Gale—a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose novels were both a critical and popular success—has fallen so far out of the literary canon is the fascinating subject of Deborah Lindsay Williams' recent book. Williams concludes that Gale' s embrace of literary (i)________ accounts for her eventual decline in reputation. Gale sought professional affiliation with other women writers of many stripes, and Williams contends that she has therefore been (ii)________ by a later literary paradigm that favors (iii)________ as a marker of artistic prowess.
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Though it may not seem (i)________, the fate of the grizzly bears, which have been both feared and revered throughout history, may hinge on something as (ii)________ as a lowly moth.
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Proposed technological innovations aimed at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would likely be more (i)________ than transitioning to clean energy sources. Still, according to some energy experts, given the political barriers to emissions reductions, and the scale of reductions needed, it is (ii)________ that some carbon-capture technology will (iii)________ some of the worst effects of warming.
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Anyone who thinks that the contemporary media' s focus on celebrity gossip and rumor marks some sort of journalistic (i)________ will find in this book (ii)________. The book shows that we live, on the contrary, in a hitherto unexampled golden age of (iii)________.
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Contrary to the proclamations of many scientists, the problems visible in small, uncontrolled medical studies are not necessarily ________ larger, randomized controlled studies, which can be faulty as well.
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The figure of the female orator, though indubitably ________, was far from unknown in fifteenth-century Italy.
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Lorena de la Paz Carrete Lucero and her colleagues found (i)________ brand loyalty among Mexican car purchasers, which suggests that regardless of customers' current brand preferences, customers may be (ii)________ competitors' marketing strategies.
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Because the chemical and physical properties of a material are a function of its structure, the enhanced three-dimensional results derived from a crystallographic study have become ________ the overall characterization of any new material.
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