Sentence examples for may be reductive from inspiring English sources

Though the concept may be reductive, the exhibition is not.

It may be reductive or even dull, but maybe what Houston really did was waltz into the world and combine her family's work.

It may be reductive to think of literature as an etiquette manual for the young and/or naïve drinker, but when I had my first hangover, very shortly after I'd first read "Othello," I was much consoled by the line "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" It told me I wasn't the first idiot ever to feel so remorseful the morning after.

Thus, depending on how time is represented and which temporal partitions are utilized, an explanation may be reductive, non-reductive, or both.

Evolutionary models are of this kind; they may be reductive to the extent that the posited original entities are simpler and on a lower level of organization and size.

To some this may be reductive, but for me, it's a necessity.

Rubbing may also be reductive, as is the case with Jim Dingilian's smoke drawings on silver trays and dishes.

While it may be somewhat reductive to think "Well, at least they're trying", compared to counterculture's complete indifference to society's ails, the pop world's increased championing of social issues can surely only be seen positively.

There is by now an extensive literature on the revival of the Taliban after the invasion of 2001, and Chayes may be somewhat reductive in her handling of the evidence here, in order to support her thesis.

The classic scientific procedure may be excessively reductive when applied to "human subjects".

French physicians seem reticent toward a quantitative evaluation of QoL, because they fear it may be a "reductive" tool [ 11].