|
Extant manuscripts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plays were produced through the combined efforts of an author, one or more scribes, and various compositors. The blending of labors is so complete that some scholars (i)_______ that the author' s contribution (ii)_______, a position that (iii)_______ the consideration of questions about authorial intention.
|
|
Shark teeth are among the most (i)_______ of all vertebrate fossils. While such (ii)_______ may befit creatures renowned for their appetites, it contrasts with the rarity of shark skeletons.
|
|
At their most ________, memoirs are about more than the story of someone' s life: they are about the function of memory itself, its narrative power to create and destroy, sweeten and obliterate the past in the service of the present.
|
|
The deep water realm was once assumed to be _______, but we now know that submerged currents of cold water flowing from high latitudes toward the equator may generate high-energy eddies that reshape the seafloor.
|
|
The company's chief executive is (i)_______ the desire to postpone action until a consensus has been reached. Instead she makes a brief for instinctive decision making, treating extensive deliberation as something to (ii)_______.
|
|
He opens in a style that is notably contentious for a scientific paper, _______ previous works that, in his dim view, have too quickly drawn analogies between human thought and animal thought.
|
|
Literary salons and coffeehouses (i)_______ the class-based systems of social hierarchies prevalent at the time. Meritocratic appreciation of wit and brilliance, wherever it might issue, replaced (ii)_______ to establish power.
|
|
At its best, the storytelling in this television series manages to accommodate a sense of historical (i)_______. The narrative shows that American independence was not (ii)_______. It was debated. It didn't happen overnight. No one was sure how it would turn out.
|
|
The flood of new candidates, including newcomers, party veterans, and the first female candidate, is a startling (i)_______ Japan's (ii)_______ political successions. The crowded field means that the selection of the new prime minister, instead of being the customary (iii)_______, backroom affair, has become a source of intense public excitement.
|
|
In the early twentieth century, some _______ the environmental benefits of a motor designed to harness the power of the ocean's waves, pointing out that the motor did not create the smoke or soot associated with burning oil.
|
|
In the nineteenth century, the dish known as lobster Newburg was sometimes associated with the culinary accessory known as the chafing dish, but Welsh rarebit was considered the truly _______ chafing dish recipe.
|
|
Because carbon is a relatively _______ element, much of the original carbon available to be incorporated in the Earth may have escaped during the accretion of the planet.
|
|
Although weeds often (i)_______ and are (ii)_______ human activities, their cussedness and refusal to play by human rules makes them subversive and the very essence of wildness.
|
|
The poem is not nearly as (i)_______ as it has often been said to be. Granted, it would be (ii)_______ to claim that the poem is self-contained or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But the poem is more self-contained than it appears when you read only fragments of it, and its allusions are often (iii)_______ by their contexts or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts.
|
|
Because the fundamental nature of language is so intangible, because there is no agreed-upon way to determine its existence, it is easy to dismiss new evidence of ostensible animal language as inadequate—quite _______, but insufficient.
|
|
Far from (i)_______ the actions taken by the newspaper's executives. Willes praised the executives' resistance to corruption—yet he doubted that their policies were practical enough to warrant (ii)_______ by other papers.
|
|
Her argument, though stimulating, is far from being proof against all reproach: several of its most crucial hypotheses are rather more (i)_______ than (ii)________.
|
|
Phrenology was _______ in taking tentative steps to connect personality traits with the brain at a time when other nineteenth-century investigators considered the heart, liver, or spleen as the anatomical repository of psychological characteristics.
|
|
Accustomed to the author's ponderous prose, readers will likely be startled by the _______ that characterizes his new work.
|
|
Once Plowright's research is complete, she will be prepared to talk about it (i)_______, but for now, because she is discussing theories rather than facts and does not want to commit herself to an unsubstantiated claim, she prefers to make only the most (ii)_______ comments.
|
