1. The discovery that, friction excluded, allbodies fall at the same rate is so
simple to state and to grasp
that there is a tendency to______its significance.
2. By divesting himself of all regalities,the former king______the consideration
that customarily protects monarchs.
3. As serious as she is about the bullfight,she does not allow respect
to______her sense of whimsy when painting it.
4. Despite assorted effusions to thecontrary, there is no necessary link between
scientific skill and humanism, and, quitepossibly, there may be something of
5. In the seventeenth century, directflouting of a generally accepted system ofvalues was regarded as______, even as a signof madness.
6. Vaillant, who has been particularlyinterested in the means by which people
attain mental health, seems to be lookingfor______answers: a way to close the
book on at least a few questions about humannature.
7. Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetrymistook for simplemindedness the
surface of artlessness that in fact sheconstructed with such______.
8. Paradoxically, Robinson’s excessivedenials of the worth of early works of
science fiction suggest that she has becomequite______them.
9. At several points in his discussion,Graves, in effect, ______evidence when itdoes not support his argument, tailoring itto his needs.
10. Any language is a conspiracy againstexperience in the sense that it is a
collective attempt to______ experience byreducing it into discrete parcels.
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