Exciting as its special effects are ______, there is too much violence in the film.
Many scholars share the belief that interest is as _____ to learning as the ability to understand, even more so to some degree.
What’s the _______ of helping him if he doesn’t make an effort to help himself?
---Alice, you didn’t come to Tim’s birthday last night. ---I wished I had, but my parents just simply___ not let me out so late at night.
To their deep sorrow, there was nothing left ______ the city except ruins after the violent earthquake, which turned the whole city into a silent world.
I went to her home and found her living conditions were_______ than mine.