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Toni Morrison’s 1998 novel was originally called War, but her publisher was concerned abou the title’s effects on efforts to market the book; in order to ___________ those apprehensions, Morrison changed the title to Paradise.

In one commentator's view, modern free traders are complete __________ because they show no interest in practicality, nuance, or flexibility on the issue of free trade.

Viruses are generally regarded as being on the far side of the demarcation between living and nonliving things, yet newly discovered giant viruses have longer genomes than some bacteria, whose status as living entities is ___________.

Kennedy's novels have a baffling way of engaging us as readers and then (i)_____________ our involvement. It is not that she gives us wooden characters or poor writing or foolish plots. Rather, her books seem so adroitly written and carefully conceived, they strike us as so (ii)_____________ as we read them, that it comes as a surprise to reach the end and find them ultimately so (iii)_____________.

The child __________ vigorously against the new bedtime rules, but eventually, realizing his parents would not budge, he yielded to their demands.

The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period details, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is(ii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.

Egler's prediction in 1947 that the introduction of mangrove trees to the Hawaiian lslands would cause sweeping ecological change was_____________: extensive mangrove forests have come to displace many preexisting plant communities.

Computational psychologists, since they take the operation of a computer as a model, __________ concepts from computer science to explain what the mind is and how it works.

Every few years, as a reviewer, one encounters a novel whose (i)__________ are so many in number, and so (ii)__________ that to correct them fully would produce a text that exceeded the novel itself in length. Faced with such a book. one wishes only to let it slip quietly to the seabed of culture, there to join thousands of other (iii)__________ books in their slow disintegration

One of the incongruities of modern industry, according to Reck and Graedel, is that we manufacture modern products with the most sophisticated technologies available yet generally adopt relatively __________ approaches to recycling them.

The Federal Reserve Bank is one of the most __________ institutions in the United States, yet many are not aware of the important operations and activities it has carried out during its lifetime.

For every __________ reader of Vestiges there were many more who became vocal critics, and the book aroused heated opposition from a broad range of British society.

When Kim Dae Jung was decisively elected South Korea’s president in December 1997, he was considered something of __________ but nevertheless the right man for the time and the job.

The author argued that a relentless focus on political scandal was making it hard for even the least __________ politicians to maintain their faith in the nobility of public service.

The artists sought to (i)__________ precisely the impulses that traditional or generally accepted thinking had (ii)__________. By cultivating instinctive, irrational awareness—which might come from dreams or from accepting results derived by chance or from a receptivity to taboo—they hoped to (iii)__________ their audience`s sense of everyday reality.

The literary critic’ s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author’s chance to(i)__________ positions previously (ii)__________ somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)__________, if in fact they do.

One important ocean current moves warm water north and east from the Gulf Stream. As that current moves into higher latitudes, its water cools and finally sinks. This cold, highly oxygenated water is crucial in (i)__________ the ocean’s gaseous elements, rather than allowing them to become (ii)__________, with oxygenated tops and oxygen-free bottoms.

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 plenty of reasons to be (iii)__________.

There has been a noticeable reversal from the time when (i)__________ was accepted as the essential characteristic of genuine science: now the role of (ii)__________ in scientific research is generating a great deal of interest.

It has been suggested that the use of metaphors from the realms of battle and sports to describe arguments contributes to the (i)__________ of the argumentative process. Such metaphors may (ii)__________ adversarial conceptions of argument, leading interlocutors to behave aggressively in verbal disputes, thereby (iii)__________ a process that ideally leads to resolution.

The results of the latest survey being __________, earlier results gave researchers little relevant experience for the new data’s interpretation.

Citing the corruption and intrigue that characterized politics in the city, my colleague __________ the newspaper’s trove of journalism prizes, declaring that finding exciting stories in the city must be effortless.

Margaret Oliphant’s literary output was __________: it included almost 100 novels, 50 short stories, 25 nonfictional works, and in the region of 400 articles published in the periodical press.

Wilson sees the ideas that he presents in his new book as being notably __________, but his critics, by contrast, claim that they are actually rather conventional.

There is something seductive about(i)__________ judgments in the arts. When a critic peremptorily announces that Titian’ s canvases are the greatest ever painted or that Mondrian and Malevich are the only truly radical artists of the twentieth century, we enjoy seeing all the confusions of taste swept aside, even though we may(ii)__________ reservations about the (iii)__________ nature of these opinions.

It can be a daunting task to plunge into the disparate and extensive data sets on the carnivores and __________ meaningful patterns from their extraordinary morphological, behavioral, and ecological diversity.

A key characteristic in the author’s presentation of his character’s dreary life is __________: paragraphs are short, sentences are laconic, patterns of repetition and

Williams argues that philosophy has become __________ occupation these days, and that it should rather be “part of a more general attempt to make the best sense of our life.”

In the (i)__________ world of the pioneering Walker Art Center, artful provocation is (ii)__________ blockbuster entertainment, the (iii)__________ is privileged over the tried-and-true, and willful insouciance is cultivated about the market forces that rein in the creativity of most big museum establishments.

Pop music continually recycles itself, building new hits around familiar themes, and successful new acts often do not even bother to disguise their __________.

The reader does well to approach claims in this autobiography with a certain amount of friendly skepticism, but the overall impression it conveys is that veracity wins out over __________.

The sleight of hand of architects whose ambition is to add subtly and seamlessly to early twentieth-century Beaux Arts buildings contradicts a first principle of historic preservation: the __________ historical periods should be clear.

The Newseum was a museum created by, for, and about journalists and newshounds. But for all its celebration of the news industry, its creators took care to avoid (i)__________. Along with many testimonials to journalistic courage and a memorial to journalists who lost their lives on the job, the museum presented noteworthy examples of journalistic (ii)__________.

The type of cultural snobbery long associated with painting in the art world, whereby beloved popular works are (i)__________ by critics, has appeared in the popular music industry. Bands with (ii)__________ are critically (iii)__________, whereas the more rarefied and minimally marketed performers can do no wrong in the opinion of the critics.

When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they (i)__________ a certain (ii)__________ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a (iii)__________ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker’s will.

Hilton discusses the well-developed capacity among the most influential and talented Victorians for writing on a wide range of topics, thus highlighting their lordly __________ specialization.

Software makers typically write licensing agreements disclaiming responsibility for any negative consequences of using their products, but as computers become integrated into everything from cars to medical devices, that stance will become __________.

Genetic diversity is the raw material of evolution including the domestication of plants, yet the domestication process typically __________ diversity because the first domesticates are derived from a very small sample of the individual plants.

When discussing the United States Army’s 1876 campaign against the Sioux, Powers is occasionally __________ context: he describes General Crook’s march to the Battle of the Rosebud but neglects to mention how it fit into the army’s overall strategy.

In the author’s view, the idea that individuals have different learning styles, such as auditory or kinesthetic, is (i)__________;it may be highly intuitive to many, but it is simply(ii)__________.