Powerful as they are, the ________ songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.
The senator’s attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second term is as _______ as her opponent’s attempt to disguise his intention to run against her.
The rate at which soil can absorb water (i)_______ with continuous wetting, so the longer a (ii)_______ lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.
Chavez’ account of her supervisors’ (i)________ decision making belies the agency’s image as little more than (ii)________ bureaucracy.
Today water is more (i)________ in landscape architecture than ever before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some instances even (ii)________ to install water features in public places.
Originally, most intellectual criticism of mass culture was (i)____ in character, being based on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the more (ii)____ the product.
Although Tom was aware that it would be (i)______ to display annoyance publicly at the sales conference, he could not (ii)______ his irritation with the client’s unreasonable demands.
In her love the sea is ________ symbol: to the narrator it clearly represents everything that is destructive in nature, but at other times it seems to stand for everything in nature that is serenely beautiful.
The failure of many psychotherapists to (i)______ the results of pioneering research could be due in part to the specialized nature of such findings: even (ii)______ findings may not be useful.
A number of scientists have published articles (i)______ global warming, stating (ii)________ that there is no solid scientific evidence to support the theory that the earth is warming because of increases in greenhouse gases.
If the theory is self-evidently true, as its proponents assert, then why does ______ it still exist among well-informed people?
Compassion is a great respecter of justice: we pity those who suffer ______.
I am often impressed by my own (i)______ other people’s idiocies: what is harder to (ii)______ is that they, in their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with mine.
The acts of vandalism that these pranksters had actually (i)______ were insignificant compared with those they had (ii)______ but had not attempted.
Despite the fact that it is almost universally (i)______, the practice of indentured servitude still (ii)______ in many parts of the world.
Although just barely (i)______ as a writer of lucid prose, Jones was an extremely (ii)______ editor who worked superbly with other writers in helping them improve the clarity of their writing.
The new (i)______ of knowledge has created (ii)______ people: everyone believes that his or her subject cannot and possibly should not be understood by others.
The history of film reflects the ______ inherent in the medium itself: film combines still photographs to represent continuous motion and, while seeming to present life itself, can also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.
In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been _________.
Even among the staid, unemotional denominations of the 1830s and 1840s, the renewal of religious fervor and the necessity of competing with more (i)________ clerics inevitably led to a greater (ii)________ ministerial showmanship.