Ability to ______ is the test of the perceptive historian, a history, after all, consists not only of what the historian has included, but also, in some sense, of what has been left out.
Art that endures often makes an initially disturbing impact: the profound experience that such art seeks to provoke necessarily engenders a certain ______.
Though one cannot say that Michelangelo was an impractical designer, he was, of all nonprofessional architects known, the most ______ in that he was the least constrained by tradition or precedent.
Some artists immodestly idealize or exaggerate the significance of their work; yet others, ______ to exalt the role of the artist, reject a transcendent view of art.
Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teenager’s face ______ her denial that she had known about the practical joke before it was played on her parents.
Though (i)______ in her personal life, Edna St. Vincent Millay was nonetheless (ii)______ about her work, usually producing several pages of complicated rhyme in a day.
Robin’s words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by careful ______ imminent extremes.
High software prices are frequently said to ______ widespread illegal copying, although the opposite — that high prices are the cause of the copying — is equally plausible.
Just as some writers have (i)______ the capacity of language to express meaning, Giacometti (ii)______ the failure of art to convey reality.
The children’s ______ natures were in sharp contrast to the even-tempered dispositions of their parents.
People of intelligence and achievement can nonetheless be so (i)______ and lacking in (ii)______ that they gamble their reputations by breaking the law to further their own ends.
Schlesinger has recently assumed a conciliatory attitude that is not (i)______ by his colleagues, who continue to (ii)______ compromise.
The necessity of establishing discrete categories for observations frequently leads to attempts to make absolute (i)______ when there are in reality only (ii)________.
The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered (i)_______ despite widespread agreement that it was (ii)_______.
Although he was known to be extremely (i)______ in his public behavior, scholars have discovered that his diaries were written with uncommon (ii)______.
Although based on an actual event, the film lacks (i)______: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and (ii)______ documentary truth for dramatic power.
Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to (i)______ himself: it was his (ii)______ that had caused the debacle.
So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the auto-biography fictionalized, that the (i)______ sometimes seem largely (ii)______.
Despite a string of dismal earnings reports, the two-year-old strategy to return the company to profitability is beginning to ______.
The form and physiology of leaves vary according to the ______ in which they develop: for example, leaves display a wide range of adaptations to different degrees of light and moisture.