reductive

How To Use reductive In A Sentence

• Jonny replies, ‘I don't see it as derogative - it is of course reductive and simplistic but it sells a serious number of books that otherwise wouldn't be sold.
• It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
• Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
• He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
• Most of these philosophers reject his non-reductive cognitivism. The Times Literary Supplement
• The reductive and vivid image is his main artistic language.
• The experimental results of adsorption spectroelectrochemistry indicate that the electrochemical reductive product of VK3 is 2-methyl -1,4-naphthylenediol.
• Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
• Esther Kläs's engaging, unpretentiously reductive sculpture evokes the postwar, semiabstracted, universalist figures of Reg Butler, Germaine Richier and Kenneth Armitage. Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions
• nice-guy" Canadianism, which is both unfairly reductive and conveniently misleading. Cokemachineglow.com