Roman historians who study the period 30 B.C. to A.D. 180 can ______ the “Augustan peace” only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resembled that of death.
Belying his earlier reputation for (i)______ as a negotiator, Morgan had recently assumed a more (ii)______ stance for which many of his erstwhile critics praised him.
The author did not see the ________ inherent in her scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to her own.
What these people were waiting for would not have been apparent to others and was perhaps not very ______ their own minds.
Bebop’s legacy is (i)______ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it (ii)______ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.
Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defense attorney’s (i)____ to ensure that false testimony is not knowingly put forward with the attorney’s mandate to mount the most (ii)____ defense conceivable for the client.
Although Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her affinity with the desert landscape, her paintings of urban subjects ______ her longtime residency in New York City.
One theory about intelligence sees (i)______ as the logical structure underlying thinking and insists that since animals are mute, they must be (ii)______ as well.
Some activists believe that because the health-care system has become increasingly (i)______ to those it serves, individuals must (ii)______ bureaucratic impediments in order to develop and promote new therapies.
The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract (i)______ is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, (ii)______ and as if by chance.
Since one of Professor Roche’s oft-repeated adages was that familiarity leads to (i)________, his students were quite surprised to find him so (ii)_______ Return of the Native, a novel he had taught for over 30 years.
Given that she previously expressed interest and the ambitious tone of her recent speeches, the senator’s attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second term is ______.
Compared with their parties, politicians are ________: they are considerably less enduring than the organizations in which they function.
The skeleton of (i)________ bird that was recently discovered indicated that this ancient creature (ii)______ today’s birds in that, unlike earlier birds and unlike reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth in its head.
The senator’s remark that she is ambivalent about running for a second term is (i)______ given the extremely (ii)______ fund-raising activities of her campaign committee.
Nothing (i)________ his irresponsibility better than his (ii)_______ delay in sending us the items he promised weeks ago.
In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of (i)______ adversity, whereas promoters and idealists created (ii)______ image of a land of infinite promise.
Carleton would still rank among the great (i)______ of nineteenth-century American art event even if the circumstance of her life and career were less (ii)______ than they are.
Though environmentalists have targeted some herbicides as potentially dangerous, the manufacturers, to the environmentalists’ dismay, ______ the use of these herbicides on lawns.
Our biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a substance must be verified by ________ experiments, even after thousands of tests of the effects of that substance on animals.