A person who constantly calls attention to his trials and sufferings is in danger of developing a martyr complex and impressing others that he is ________ seeking sympathy.
If the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, its water. tight compartments might have saved it from ______, but it swerved to avoid the iceberg, and in the collision so many compartments were opened to the sea that disaster was _______
The authority of voice in Frazer's writing strikes many readers today as ______ colonialism; his prose seems as invulnerable and expansive as something on which the sun was presumed never to set
