Sentence examples for not a reductive from inspiring English sources

Is it not a reductive description.

This is not a reductive summary — each novel is a distinct treasure — but an effort to highlight a preoccupation: Gaiman is especially accomplished in navigating the cruel, uncertain dreamscape of childhood.

"One of the strongest reasons for using cultural-historical theory is that it is not a reductive or static theory but renewable and expansive" (Ridgway et al. 2015 p.7). Vygotsky (1987) utilized the dialectical method and took a psychological view to the study of human consciousness and development.

It wasn't a reductive or depressing insight; it was almost a form of happiness, the kind of apprehension religious people strove for.

Epistemology and subjects both lose their status as privileged vantage points in this context, but this does not imply a reductive naturalism, since '[h]aving a place in nature does not spell a reduction of humanity as much as an explanation, one that provides us with a meaningful place' (Mullarkey, 2003: 64).

But this should be taken as a heuristic guide only, not as a reductive definition, since parthood is really a three-place relation, so the crude approximation does not even express a proposition according to Hudson.

To me, I've always considered Trainspotting a book about camaraderie and companionship, and not simply a reductive book about heroin abuse.

Beyoncé's abiding interest in money has made for some of her best moments; not in a reductive materialist sense, but because she has a deep understanding of how money informs social and romantic relations.

Hannah brings up pareidolia because the author has been talking about how he's a little face blind — how faces are "fictions he increasingly could not read, a reductive way of bundling features in the memory, even if that memory was then projected into the present".

Would you know what he meant if the author said he never really saw her face, that faces were fictions he increasingly could not read, a reductive way of bundling features in the memory, even if that memory was then projected into the present, onto the area between the forehead and chin?

Unlike Fe(II), Fe III) does not cause a reductive session of the endoperoxide.