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The trilogy balances seriousness with brilliant special effects, a fundamental furious darkness with fast - paced and engaging storytelling, so that the books manage to be simultaneously disturbing and __________.

As an architect, Santiago Calatrava owes his stardom to his facility for memorable and sometimes even breathtaking form making and his unusually (i)__________ resume. He trained as both an architect and an engineer, with a doctorate in technical science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This (ii)__________ enables him to interweave several disciplines, especially architecture and engineering, which one might think would logically conjoin but are often, in the United States at least, puzzlingly (iii)__________.

Though cloaked in the protective armor of __________ prose, John Hope Franklin’s interpretation of United States history was surprisingly radical.

The publisher describes the volume as a handbook, but its four-digit page count and three-digit price tag could make potential buyers view that description as __________.

With poetry seemingly forever composing its own __________, and the novel apparently writing its last chapter. science fiction writers are now similarly concerned that they face a future in which their writing could, ironically, be a thing of the past.

Famous books have been (i)__________ the theater: Dickens suffered so much hackneyed staging that he felt forced to change his writing style, throwing time shifts into his narratives to trip up the adapters. Undeterred, theatrical managements ever since have used other people’s literary repute to fill seats, though the adaptations still seldom (ii)__________ their literary models. But in the 1990s a small British theater company, Shared Experience, began to (iii)__________ the received wisdom about adaptations by developing thrilling and uniquely theatrical versions of several classic novels.

The new biography of the composer discusses the reception of his music, not from the perspective of fellow composers, who were __________ but rather from that of the public who were, by contrast, laudatory.

Many American Indian writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko consciously work to (i)__________ the established literary techniques generally associated with the novel. Their work carries a fresh infusion of oral traditions, thereby yielding (ii)__________ texts that although cohesive are neither purely oral and conversational nor purely literary and discursive.

The perception of social history as (i)__________ discipline is (ii)__________ by the undeniable fact that the most distinguished social historians belonged to a generation whose most (iii)__________ figures have either passed from the scene or are approaching that point.

In his new memoir, the novelist turns his unforgiving eye on himself and succeeds in giving us a self-portrait of the artist as a young fool: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish, and overwhelmingly self-absorbed. While some admiring readers may say the novelist deserves (i)__________ for being so revealing about himself there is something oddly (ii)__________ about his self-inventory of sins. He seems to actually have reveled in being so (iii)__________.

The novelist was so __________ that any criticism of one of her works in progress would seriously inhibit her ability to finish.

Besides humans, very few other species are known to (i)__________ others; among the nonhuman primates, the best (ii)__________ are the callitrichids. Adult tamarins, for instance, will at first bring infants dead insects to eat. Once the youngsters are old enough, the adults present live prey; eventually, they simply indicate where an insect is hidden.

Many newspaper readers found it hard to credit the __________ of the accusations regarding the superintendent, since they were still swayed by the superintendent’s reputation for utter probity.

Whereas science tends to __________ common intuitions regarding human nature, the legal system tends to embrace them.

By arguing that new discoveries __________ the shared theoretical beliefs, values, and techniques of the larger scientific community, the historian challenged the view that scientific progress is generated by particular great scientists.

He is most frugal in matters of business, but in his private life he reveals a streak of __________.

Scottish writer Mary Brunton’s novels Self-control (1811) and Discipline (1814) are undeniably (i)__________: her plots, involving virtue rewarded and excess avoided, (ii)__________ cautionary tales, though the psychological analysis that pervades the books saves them from blandness and sentimentality.

Although people sometimes conflate them, the Beat poetry scene and the folk-music revival were actually (i)__________ and in many ways (ii)__________, despite sharing certain ancestral connections in Depression-era left-wing politics.

It would be easy to (i)__________ Dahl’ s fine little book on democracy—barely 200 pages long, yet sketching the meaning of democracy, the history of democracy, the forms of democracy, and the prospects for democracy—on the grounds that it failed to go into this or that in the detail required. But such a response would be misguided: (ii)__________ and (iii)__________ are the whole point of such a book.

Lacking a strong opposing political party to __________, the ruling party’s leaders are now focusing all their rancor on one another.

Planetary systems are __________, with the orbits of even the largest planets able to evolve and migrate, especially in the early period when interaction between forming planets and the protoplanetary disc is strong.

Her problem with postmodernist architecture is not that it is hedonistic but that it is __________; she reproaches postmodernists for making ironic references in their designs that only other architects can fathom.

The newly discovered silk could have practical value: its lightness, flexibility, and strength make it __________ as an industrial material.

The mayor has developed a reputation for (i)__________, and even in a city not known for its (ii)__________, this reputation is proving to be a growing danger to his administration.

Many people today blame science and technology for contributing to environmental degradation and to global warming. Indeed, one of the noteworthy features of our time is that the relentless (i)__________ of the power of science is paralleled by a growing sense of (ii)__________ about science. Anyone old enough to recall the public’s enthusiasm for so many of the scientific breakthroughs in the 1950s and 1960s will be struck by the more (iii)__________, even fearful, attitude toward scientific developments at present.

Levine (i)__________ arguments that universities are causing the (ii)__________ of Western values by claiming that such concerns are (iii)__________. He points out that the literary canon that is now thought to embody those values underwent changes—the addition of Shakespeare and Milton, or the later addition of Melville and Hawthorne, for example—that were all made despite fears that such changes would lead to declining standards and values.

As a matter of good practice, members of the scientific community tend to be (i)__________ when it comes to affirming received opinion. They constantly question whatever is offered as accepted truth. Science (ii)__________ when its practitioners hew to a (iii)__________ approach.

Of all the mysteries of the Arctic, the (i)__________ of musk oxen on Banks Island is one of the most (ii)__________. Scientists are confounded both about why the animals disappeared on Banks and why the species has experienced a phenomenal recovery there over the past half century.

In seventeenth-century science, we witness the first instance of technological __________ ： scientific tools, constructed from existing scientific knowledge, led to the acquisition of new knowledge that in turn contributed to improving the tools’ design.

Business leaders who prefer centralized, pyramidal managerial structures to diversity and competition tend to (i)__________ dissent in the decision-making process. But this insistence on (ii)__________ can be dangerous in that it deprives decision makers of a full range of alternatives.

Our Sun is __________: in addition to supplying warmth and light that sustain us, it enables us to gauge the brightness, age, and solar system characteristics of other stars in the universe.

While many animals are properly called intelligent, humans are distinguished by an intelligence that is __________, in that they fashion their neural circuits to match the task at hand.

The new illustrations, though they follow the plot, have little to do with the (i)__________ of Alice in Wonderland. Unchangingly (ii)__________, they (iii)__________ the shadows of a story that, for all its whimsy, has to do with the terrifying instability of identity.