As businesses become aware that their advertising must (i)______ the everyday concerns of consumers, their commercials will be characterized by a greater degree of (ii)______.
Perhaps because scientists have been so intrigued by dogs’ superior senses of smell and hearing, researchers have long ______ their eyesight, assuming that they inhabit a drab, black-and-white world, devoid of color.
Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from medieval _______ experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seems likely to reverse the trend, rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence mandatory.
Although she gives badly (i)_________ titles to her musical compositions, they (ii)_________ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
If the state government’s latest budget problems were (i)______, it would not be useful to employ them as (ii)______ examples in the effort to avoid the inevitable effects of shortsighted fiscal planning in the future.
Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate the results of Dr. Johnson’s experiment, only the most (i)______ supporters of her hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had been adequately (ii)______.
She is most frugal in matters of business, but in her private life she reveals a streak of ______.
Doors were closing on our past, and soon the values we had lived by would become so obsolete that we would seem to people of the new age as ______ as travelers from an ancient land.
Even though the survey was designated as an inter-disciplinary course, it involved no real ______ of subject matter.
The (i)______ with which the politician peppers her speeches are so memorable that many people think of her as being far more (ii)______ than she in fact is.
The ideas expressed in the art historian’s book are more (i)_______ than one would expect on the basis of her rather (ii)_______ treatment of her subject in the opening pages.
Data concerning the effects on a small population of high concentrations of a potentially hazardous chemical are frequently used to ____ the effects on a large population of lower amounts of the same chemical.
Contemporary lawmakers’ preoccupation with regulating the Internet is (i)__________ the way lawmakers treated many young industries in the past; United States railroads, for instance, were in business for 60 years before the federal government (ii)_______ regulations.
While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not (i)________ idiomatic Russian musical elements, (ii)______ instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism.
By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock, systematic timekeeping has imposed a form of ______ on society.
Despite its many (i)________, the whole-language philosophy of teaching reading continues to gain (ii)________ among educators.
As early as the seventeenth century, philosophers called attention to the (i)______ character of the issue, and their twentieth-century counterparts still approach it with (ii)______.
With the ______ of scientific knowledge, work on the new edition of a textbook begins soon after completion of the original.
Although sales have continued to increase since last April, unfortunately the rate of increase has ______.
The accusations we bring against others should be (i)______ ourselves; they should not (ii)______ complacency and easy judgments on our part concerning our own moral conduct.