As Collins describes it, he took 'the massive physical presence of the Iberian pig and reduced it to essential qualities of taste, removing the texture and appearance that defines what one thinks of as jamon'.
Because when you reduce it to the essentials, to what is absolutely necessary, it wasn't just unleavened bread that the unprepared Israelites took with them when they left Egypt.
This abstraction--the ability to take away or remove characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of essential characteristics--is what presents an opportunity for creative solutions.
I created the images by taking the old photo in question, tracing it either on paper or directly onto the computer, and reducing it to, hopefully, its essentials.
Fitzcarraldo responds by bombarding the invisible enemy with yet more Caruso.Opera, Mr Herzog argues, makes the most outlandish events beautiful by transforming the world into music and reducing it to its bare emotional essentials.
If Minimalism stripped art down, reducing it to bare self-referential essentials, Mr. Muniz figured, why couldn't Minimalism itself be pared?
While the blood pressure must be reduced promptly, it is essential to reduce it at a controlled rate, as there is the risk of the brain receiving inadequate blood flow when a very high BP drops too fast.
Fiske and Rai argue that understanding the moral nature of violence is actually essential to reducing it, because the best way to change someone's behavior is to understand what motivated that behavior in the first place.
September 13, leader: Emergencies reduce us to essentials.
Reduced to its essentials, it contends that Robert Justus Kleberg, the lawyer who took over the King Ranch after marrying Richard King's favorite daughter in the 1880's, may have swindled William Chapman's widow of half of a roughly 15,000-acre holding at the ranch's core, known as the Rincón de Santa Gertrudis, after an old Spanish land grant.
The measurements indicate that to reduce crosstalk it is essential to optically shield the gap between junctions and to reverse bias the adjacent junctions.
