多选题Hayley Mills"s films have been called ______, although most of them are not so sentimental as to deserve that description.
多选题The ______ of new orders mean that enough work had arrived to keep everyone at the plant working overtime.
多选题Mala based her new online business in the ______, because she wanted to work far away from the crowded, expensive city.
多选题Maui is the second largest of the Hawaiian islands, ______ only the Big Island (Hawaii) in size.
多选题Jean-Michel Basquiat"s ascendancy was truly ______: his provocative art suddenly propelled him from New York street artist to international celebrity.
多选题When two chemical compounds are combined, a ______ effect can be achieved: the resulting combination can be more potent than either of the individual compounds alone.
多选题The author"s theory about modern design had an enormous impact when first published, but as ______ as it was then, it is now clearly ______.
多选题The lifestyle of modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan was considered ______, since it was marked by unconventional behavior and attitudes.
多选题His peers respected him because he was both ______ and ______: steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations.
多选题City leaders practiced ______ out of respect for taxpayers, ______ the number of new public projects.
多选题Noting the murder victim's flaccid musculature and pearlike figure, she
deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ______
occupation.
A. treacherous
B. prestigious
C. ill-paying
D. illegitimate
E. sedentary
多选题During the Hart dynasty, trade expansion to distant Persia allowed the Chinese to ______ their ______ of other cultures.
多选题Joe claimed always to be ______ in a crisis, but Kameko insisted that he was, on the contrary, easily ______.
多选题Residents of the secluded island fear that ______ commercial development will ______ their quiet way of life.
多选题Irene is ______ compliments, feeling that they are often nothing but empty flattery.
多选题After years of taking art history courses and visiting museums, Ed considered himself a true ______ of fine art.
多选题Because the photographer believed that wild animals should be ______ only in their various natural surroundings, she ______ often in her career.
多选题Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to
the ______ of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ______ before
he acted.
A. rewards
B. balm
C. reproaches
D. chastisement
E. promptings
F. atonement
多选题Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not
necessarily intended to look ______; they were designed expressly to evoke the
agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ______ of natural beauty and
human glory.
A. cheerful
B. luxuriant
C. collusion
D. transitoriness
E. taciturnity
F. frivolity
多选题Laila performed her tasks at the office with ______, completing all her projects in record time.