All-star game is a reductive term for what is really a four-day trade show for a leading entertainment brand.
The "sharing economy" is a reductive term that blurs the line between groundbreaking enterprises that tap into unused resources and charlatans looking for a quick payday.
It never occurred to me as a reductive term until I hit middle age and realized that all of my favorite music -- the music I was listening to when I first got to second and third bases with people other than myself -- was now akin to the tunes of yore that the adults who ruled my world back then would subject me to, much to my chagrin.
Andy Warhol style, Murakami even coined a handy, if reductive, term for it: "Superflat," 2-D imagery sans aesthetic hierarchies.
Like "video nasty" or "slasher film", torture porn is an inherently negative and reductive term – it fuses pornography and torture, rendering any film with this label as cheap and dismissable.
Perhaps she was trying too hard to define herself against the reductive term, fashion photographer.
In reductive terms a composition under the system will begin with a three-note chord, and proceed by extrapolating on its intervals, thereby defining the terms of any improvisation.
What happened later was only natural: In reductive terms, folk music became an industry, and the festival grew older, along with its patronage, accommodating new artists within a pretty tight framework.
In the most reductive terms, Fellini's lead is an intelligent, shallow, miserable, sensitive, drunk, womanizer, and throughout we are given the impression that he should really be doing something more worthwhile with his time on Earth.
In the most reductive terms, Fellini's lead is an intelligent, shallow, miserable, sensitive, drunk, womanising chancer, and throughout we are given the impression that he should really be doing something more worthwhile with his time on Earth.
This is a well-worn debate now, one that states in its most reductive terms that if you didn't enjoy Gayle's innings you must be a curmudgeon, a square, possibly even a racist.
