Like an artist driven to paint the same scene again and again, Clark refines, reduces to essence.
"It's not a concept -- O.K., it's a concept, reducing the essence of tangerine -- but it's a little path," Adrià said.
"CBGB was a dump, but for the Met to reduce its essence to a toilet is obnoxious," said Richard Hell, a seminal figure in the punk scene.
The technology of social media is taken to absurd destructive lengths, reducing the essence of our humanity to the ash-like waste matter of the transparent shark that devours everything.
The aim of the diverse dimension reduction methods is, as the name implies, to reduce the essence of the interrelation of multidimensional data to a lower complexity.
This is theatre reduced to its essence, the set says.
Reduced to its essence, it amounts to graduates telling nongraduates: "We reject your democratic choice".
Reduced to its essence, Marxist doctrine remains a compelling, albeit imperfect, moral criticism of Western society.
(The preface begins, "Wrestling is not, as some contend, like life. Wrestling is life — reduced to its essence").
The nude performer is not reduced to stark essence, you swiftly realise, but merely costumed in a different layer of meaning.
