There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people’s social behavior and the values informing it, that cannot be (i)______ from one or another point of view, or even (ii)______ as simplistic or vapid.
The senator’s attempt to convince the public that he is not interested in running for a second term is (i)______ given the extremely (ii)______ fund-raising activities of his campaign committee.
Once Renaissance painters discovered how to (i)______ volume and depth, they were able to replace the medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional space with the more (ii)______ illusion of actual space.
Although the number of reported volcanic eruptions has risen exponentially since 1850, this indicates not (i)______ volcanic activity but rather more widespread and (ii)______ record keeping.
As long as the nuclear family is (i)______ a larger kinship group through contiguous residence on undivided land, the pressure to (ii)______ and thus to get along with relatives is strong.
We first became aware that her support for the new program was less than ______ when she declined to make a speech in its favor.
That she was (i)_____ rock climbing did not diminish her (ii)_____ to join her friends on a rock-climbing expedition.
Because the lawyer’s methods were found to be (i)______, the disciplinary committee (ii)________ his privileges.
The biographer’s intense emotional involvement with his subject did not (i)________ objectivity, since the passionate engagement fostered deep knowledge that was ultimately necessary for truly (ii)________ judgment.
Because the monkeys under study are (i)______ the presence of human beings, they typically (ii)______ human observers and go about their business.
A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of Phaistos is often ______ as the earliest example of printing by scholars who have defended its claim to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts.
In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of ______.
Our high (i)______ vocabulary for street crime contrasts sharply with our (ii)______ vocabulary for corporate crime, a fact that corresponds to the general public’s unawareness of the extent of corporate crime.
The remark was only slightly (i)______, inviting a chuckle, perhaps, but certainly not a (ii)______.
The research committee urged the archaeologist to (i)_______ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on (ii)_______.
He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered ______ bordering on hostility.
According to one political theorist, a regime that has as its goal absolute (i)______, without any (ii)_______ law or principle, has declared war on justice.
The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered ________.
In contrast to the substantial muscular activity required for inhalation, exhalation is usually a ______ process.
Unlike many recent interpretations of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the recitalist’s performance was a delightfully free and introspective one; nevertheless, it was also, seemingly paradoxically, quite ______.