Schlesinger has recently assumed a conciliatory attitude that is not (i)______ by his colleagues, who continue to (ii)______ compromise.
The necessity of establishing discrete categories for observations frequently leads to attempts to make absolute (i)______ when there are in reality only (ii)________.
The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered (i)_______ despite widespread agreement that it was (ii)_______.
Although he was known to be extremely (i)______ in his public behavior, scholars have discovered that his diaries were written with uncommon (ii)______.
Although based on an actual event, the film lacks (i)______: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and (ii)______ documentary truth for dramatic power.
Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to (i)______ himself: it was his (ii)______ that had caused the debacle.
So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the auto-biography fictionalized, that the (i)______ sometimes seem largely (ii)______.
Despite a string of dismal earnings reports, the two-year-old strategy to return the company to profitability is beginning to ______.
The form and physiology of leaves vary according to the ______ in which they develop: for example, leaves display a wide range of adaptations to different degrees of light and moisture.
Despite their extensive efforts to determine the mode of oil (i)________, scientists still have not (ii)________ the process by which oil is produced.
The passions of love and pride are often found in the same individual, but having little in common, they mutually ______, not to say destroy, each other.
Tuberculosis has long been (i)________ and (ii)________ disease: for thousands of years, it has continued to afflict humankind without regard for sex, class, occupation, or race.
Although Irish literature continued to flourish after the sixteenth century, a (i)______ tradition is (ii)______ in the visual arts: we think about Irish culture in terms of the word, not in terms of pictorial images.
She was criticized by her fellow lawyers not because she was not (i)______, but because she so (ii)______ prepared her cases that she failed to bring the expected number to trial.
Many of her followers remain (i)______ to her, and even those who have rejected her leadership are unconvinced of the (ii)______ of replacing her during the current turmoil.
MacCrory’s conversation was _______: she could never tell a story, chiefly because she always forgot it, and she was never guilty of a witticism, unless by accident.
In spite of the increasing ______ of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so that the award could be presented.
While scientists dismiss as fanciful the idea of sudden changes in a genetic code (spontaneous mutation), it is possible that nature, like some master musician, _____ on occasion, departing from the expected or predictable.
Far from undermining the impression of permanent decline, the (i)______ statue seemed emblematic of its (ii)______ surroundings.
Before adapting to changes in values, many prefer to (i)______, to (ii)______ the universally agreed-on principles that have been upheld for centuries.