Although Simpson was ingenious at ______ to appear innovative and spontaneous, beneath the ruse he remained uninspired and rigid in his approach to problem-solving.
Estimating the risks of radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant is ______ question, but one whose answer then becomes part of a value-laden, emotionally charged policy debate about whether to construct such a plant.
Throughout the artist’s work there runs a thread of psychic darkness strong enough to unnerve the most added sensibility: even her drawings from the comparatively (i)________ months of her visit to Rome (ii)________ violence secrecy, and despair.
Although a change in management may appear to (i)_____ a shift in a company’s fortunes, more often than not its impact is (ii)______.
In spite of the fact that it is convenient to divide the life span of animals into separate stages such as prenatal, adolescent, and senescent, these periods are not really ______.
That she seemed to prefer (i)______ to concentrated effort is undeniable; nevertheless, the impressive quality of her finished paintings suggests that her actual relationship to her art was anything but (ii)_______.
Most plant species exhibit (i)______ in their geographical distribution: often, a given species is found over a large geographical area, but individual populations within that range are widely (ii)______.
By (i)______ scientific rigor with a quantitative approach, researchers in the social sciences may often have (ii)______ their scope to those narrowly circumscribed topics that are well suited to quantitative methods.
Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this ______ meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
Honeybees tend to be more ______ than earth bees: the former, unlike the latter, search for food together and signal their individual findings to one another.
The profits that the corporation earns from the exclusive-supplier agreements with the universities are (i)______, because the terms of agreements that they are inclined to protect the universities’ interests are generally (ii)______.
While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents the need to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense of maintaining a vast network of roads ______ reliance on these general taxes.
The meeting on environmental issues produced (i)_______ discussion but no commitment on a plan of action: the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the policymakers (ii)_______.
It is no accident that most people find Davis’ book disturbing, for it is (i)______ to undermine a number of beliefs they have long (ii)______.
The hesitancy of many countries to embrace market reform is unfortunate, because many national success stories suggest that far from (i)______ such reform, countries should be eager to (ii)______ its benefits.
The exhibition’s importance lies in its ______: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.
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.