Individuals have applied "positive thinking" either to particular external circum-stances or to some particular habit or character defect.

单项选择题The novel, which is a work of art, exists not by its ______ life, but by its immeasurable difference from life.

单项选择题The first two assumptions made about the ______ of TV were dead wrong: that it would bury radio and it would be a threat to movies.