Sentence examples for a reductive description from inspiring English sources

Is it not a reductive description.

Jazz cooperates with Indian music, but that's a reductive description: it's really just improvised song over loose composition, in which rhythm is taken to its boundaries of speed and precision and in other places presented fairly sparsely.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes this novel as "one of the key texts of the women's movement of the 1960s", a reductive description that would have infuriated Lessing, partly because she hated to be pigeonholed, and also because she understood fiction to be infinitely more varied and complex than one "movement".

"Shoegazing" seems a painfully reductive description for what Pinkshinyultrablast do: there are fiddly math-rock rhythms (Umi), wistful electronica (Holy Forest) and a thunderous, frenetic dynamism to their live performance that's more akin to punk than ponderous effects-pedal worship.

Don't let that glib, reductive description put you off, though: Festival of the Dead is a clear progression from the previous two Cut Hands albums – WB still comes up with new ways to make uniquely relentless and unforgiving music, even after 35 years in the game.

The two images described above, though, challenge that reductive description.

I hope that Mr. Kehr's reductive description of "The Third Man" will not discourage readers from seeing it.

She's humbled to learn that their marriages work as well as or better than those made in the U.S.A. Her reductive descriptions of dates (and we've all spoken them) are ultimately, reassuringly offset by the admission that she's not so hot herself.

"It's a reductive stereotype.

They reflect a reductive unease born of 9/11 and ignorance.

It's a reductive, myopic way of looking".