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.
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.